Author Archives: vorjack

Christ in Hyperreality

Matthew Paul Turner posted this advertisement for Christ in the Smokies, a wax museum and tourist trap in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. This should really be paired with Umberto Eco’s essay, Travels in Hyperreality. Sometime in the early 1970′s Eco traveled the … Continue reading

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Fred Peeps

Courtesy of Stuff Fundies Like. It looks like an entry in the Washington Post Peeps Show, but I can’t find the specific entry.

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Church of Science-Fiction

I found this review of Hugh Urban’s The Church of Scientology to be very interesting. Urban seems to be a qualified analyst of minority religions and esoteric traditions, with previous works on Tantra and American esoteric traditions in India and … Continue reading

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Answering the Star Tribune

From The Lead blog, I see that the Star Tribune has an article asking “Why should I accept same-sex couples?” They chose the responses of Rev. Lisa Cressman, an Episcopalian priest who answers quite well. Still, there are a few … Continue reading

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Julia Sweeny on Victoria Jackson’s “Comedy”

Back in 2008, everybody knew that if Obama was elected that some of America’s right wing would come unhinged. But I don’t know if we really expected the types of people who would become right wing mouthpieces. We should have; … Continue reading

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No Fetus Can Feed Us

Every now and then, Snopes debunks some rumor about horrible things that are being done with aborted fetuses. Apparently, there’s a politician in Oklahoma who believes these stories. From KRMG: You might think this is a story out of ‘The … Continue reading

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Galileo Gambit

Not long before dropping out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Rick Perry decided to defend his skepticism of climate change by playing the Galileo Gambit: The science is not settled on this. The idea that we would … Continue reading

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Ten Commandments

Most of you are familiar with NonStampCollector by now. When he’s not busy not collecting stamps he’s creating these clever animated bits about religion and atheism. His latest is about the Decalogue:

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Go With the Flow

Hemant recently posted this handy sexual morality flow-chart, courtesy of Tom the Dancing Bug. The artist, Ruben Bolling, captures the conflicting messages of the modern virtue-crats quite well: I thought it would be a good time to repost a scan … Continue reading

Posted in Christianity, Sexuality | 6 Comments

Yosemite HD

Another remarkable time-lapse, high definition video project has recently come out. This one is called the Yosemite Project, produced by Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty.

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