Michael Warren Davis

"Written in Stone" with Michael Warren Davis

Who Said This? “The Ten Commandments are . . . unsuited and inadequate to modern needs.”

The answer is the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (Man and Superman) — but it could have been any number of modern-day skeptics.

• Why non-Christian “spirituality” soon collapses into atheism

• Why true liberty cannot and does not exist outside Christian tradition

• When revolution is justified — and when it is not

• How societies that exalt unfettered personal freedom inevitably degenerate into tyrannies

• Can a soldier take his own life to prevent vital information from falling into enemy hands?

• Can a woman jump from a high window to escape a pursuing attacker?

• How modern conventions of speech have muddied the distinction between love and lust

• Why the communal ownership practiced by religious communities cannot be the basis of society in general

• Why every act of dishonesty is at the expense of the poor — whether the sinner is rich or not