Religious Rhetorics
Rhetorical analysis of American religion
Archive for April 2009
Notre Dame and Catholic Embarrassment
But the true embarrassment for Catholics is that the leaders of our Church are buying into this misleading and harmful rhetoric, and thereby lending it false legitimacy….Politicizing Catholic identity harms not only our Church, but also our nation and, in this increasingly globalized society, our world. Continue reading
Science versus Ideology: Discourses of Ethics and Medicine in the Abortion Debate
Although it may sometimes be rhetorically convenient to posit that science and medicine should be ideologically-neutral, neither exists in an ideological vacuum. In fact, ideology may be ethically necessary in decisions involving abortion, embryonic-stem cell research, and euthanasia. Continue reading
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