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Daniel C. Maguire

Daniel C. Maguire is a professor of ethics at Marquette University, a Jesuit institution, and past president of The Society of Christian Ethics. He is the author or editor of 13 books and some 200 articles and president of The Religious Consultation On Population, Reproductive Health and Ethics, an international collegium of 80 scholars from all the world religions. His most recent book is Christianity Without God: Moving Beyond the Dogmas and Retrieving the Epic Moral Narrative (SUNY, 2014).

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Religion Dispatches

The Tyranny of Politesse: Why Decency Does Not Require us to Wish Trump a Full and Speedy Recovery

Let me state for the record. There is no moral obligation to wish Trump a full recovery from Covid-19. I certainly do not. Even the Bidens, Kamala Harris, and Rachel Maddow seem to feel that hoping…
Daniel C. Maguire
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Religion Dispatches

St. Antoninus: The Patron Saint of Pro-Choice Catholics

Catholicism is usually seen as being at the forefront of the anti-choice movement that would take moral freedom away from the pregnant person and consign it to male-dominated churches, legislatures, and courts. But a 15th century saint reveals that it was not always so.
Daniel C. Maguire
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Religion Dispatches

The God of the Holocene Epoch Is Dead: Religion's Fatal Flaw

The “world religions” suffer from their provenance. They are, one and all, children of the naively hopeful Holocene Epoch. Our species was born around 200,000 years ago, right at the end of the…
Daniel C. Maguire
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