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Worried What Will Happen To Your Pets If You’re Raptured?
June 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Atheist Bus Ad Banned
June 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
This ad (featured above) which ran in Indiana for the last month was banned after “complaints from mostly religious people” helped contribute to a new official policy which allows the board to review controversial advertising. And it was then the board realized that term, “controversial,” was much too broad, board Chairman Chip Lewis said. “Lack [...]
Objections to Religious Moderates and Intellectuals (part 2)
June 24, 2009 By 3 Comments
Shane writes in reply to this post, Hi Dan, long time reader first time commenter. Do you have any /empirical/ evidence that religious people are more credulous, more stupid on average than non-religious people of comparable education and similar sociology? If you do, I’d love to see it. But if you don’t have such empirical [...]
“True” Christianity? (part 2)
June 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Njustus writes in the comments section of this post: I certainly stand in awe of your attempt to comprehensively define Christianity. It’s a burden I’m not sure I could give myself. I of course could offer a definition, but I’m not sure I could do so without revealing more about myself than any objective concept [...]
Objections To Religious Moderates and Intellectuals
June 24, 2009 By 6 Comments
“True” Christianity?
June 23, 2009 By 8 Comments
Yesterday, I excerpted from a blog post which discussed several books which make the case for an interpretation of biblical texts as not merely not homophobic but as positively homophilic. Granting for argument’s sake that this intriguing interpretation was a sound textual reading of the Bible, does that therefore make it the “best” way to [...]
The Homophilic Bible? (And a Personal Gut Check)
June 23, 2009 By 1 Comment
Adam Kotsko writes that Theodore Jennings’s forthcoming book, Plato or Paul?: The Origins of Western Homophobia completes a kind of trilogy on homophobia, consisting also of The Man Jesus Loved: Homoerotic Narratives in the New Testament and Jacob’s Wound: Homoerotic Narrative in the Literature of Ancient Israel. The strategy here is clear, aggressive, and [...]
Daily Hilarity: Senator Tom Coburn’s Editorial About Why The Republicans Are Set Up For A Rout In November
May 27, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Senator Coburn writes, Compassionate conservatism’s starting point had merit. The essential argument that Republicans should orient policy around how our ideas will affect the poor, the widow, the orphan, the forgotten and the “other” is indisputable – particularly for those who claim, as I do, to submit to an authority higher than government. Yet conservatives [...]
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