Where’s the evidence? After years in which respect for science and reason has been in decline, it should be encouraging to hear this question being doggedly asked. And yet the demand for evidence is being used by those sceptical of measures scientists generally support to bring the virus under control: vaccines, lockdowns, masks. Ironically, the scientists’ mantra is now being used against them. How did this happen?
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My appeal to defenders of the “trans women are women, period” argument is stop dismissing those of us who are not yet persuaded as transphobic. Instead, engage with us, show us the errors of our ways, while being prepared to question the absolute rightness of your own.
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The pursuit of national self-sufficiency is an understandable reaction against a rapacious globalised economy – but it is neither possible nor desirable.
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One cause of the Vatican’s failure to address abuse should worry everyone in our polarised societies: The more we think of our opponents as evil, the more we feel we are on the side of virtue and the blinder we become to our own shortcomings.
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Jesus was anti-family, opposed the condemnation of sexual sinners, and was completely silent on abortion. It is a mystery how evangelicals today square this with their righteous condemnation of the behaviour of others and their desire to control it by law. The Jesus who said “Judge not, that ye be not judged: condemn not, that ye be not condemned” would be appalled to see his so-called followers today look to the Supreme Court to enforce their values.
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