November 20, 2008 – 02:32 pm
From the Onion’s I’m Not One Of Those ‘Love Thy Neighbor’ Christians: “I’m a normal Midwestern housewife. I believe in the basic teachings of the Bible and the church. Divorce is forbidden. A woman is to be an obedient subordinate to the male head of the household. If a man lieth down with another man, [...]
November 17, 2008 – 02:20 pm
From BeliefNet’s Obama’s Fascinating Interview with Cathleen Falsani: “The most detailed and fascinating explication of Barack Obama’s faith came in a 2004 interview he gave Chicago Sun Times columnist Cathleen Falsani when he was running for U.S. Senate in Illinois. The column she wrote about the interview has been quoted and misquoted many times over, [...]
From NY Times’s Ancient Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection: “‘This should shake our basic view of Christianity…Resurrection after three days becomes a motif developed before Jesus, which runs contrary to nearly all scholarship.’” [What about Jonah's three days in the whale? Or does metaphorical resurrection not count?]
March 22, 2007 – 04:45 pm
From What would Jesus smoke?: “On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a First Amendment case involving a high-school student who was suspended for holding a sign that said “Bong Hits 4 Jesus.” His provocative slogan turns out to have been little more than a ploy to get on TV. But what do Christian [...]
Hot damn! Never mind the quote. Go read “Beyond Belief,” an incendiary article written by Chris Floyd for The Moscow Times. His every sentence drips with righteous rage, and I love every word.
February 26, 2006 – 11:13 pm
You don’t know me. This is my first year here. We might have a friend in common though. Do you remember Carl? He was the man around here for a quite a while. A public safety officer. He died a couple of years back. Just a really interesting guy. I met him last summer while [...]
December 21, 2005 – 02:55 pm
For the reasons that follow, we hold that the I[ntelligent] D[esign] Policy is unconstitutional pursuant to the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and Art. I, § 3 of the Pennsylvania Constituion.
By Kyle
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Posted in Asides
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Also tagged conservatism, culture_wars, curriculum, education, enlightenment, evolution, intelligent_design, liberalism, policy, Politics, Religion, republicans, united_states
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November 14, 2005 – 01:08 am
For my independent study in Philosophy of Technology, I’m reading Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millenium, by Albert Borgman. Of the books I’ve read so far for the class, this is easily the most engaging (apart from Heidegger, but that’s only because I seem to be ridiculously [...]
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