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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
Posted in Christianity, Culture
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Atheists and Wicca
While I’m reluctant to link to a blog that we are at war with, Camels with Hammers has an interesting series of guest posts from Eric Steinhart. Steinhart has been watching the growth of neo-paganism in America, and has some … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Culture
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Look for the Christian Label
Over at Religion in American History, Charity Carney has just finished her series about working in Christian retail. Now Darren Grem is responding, starting off by looking at what we mean when we say that something is “Christian”: I certainly … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Culture
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The Christian James Bond
Evangelical Christianity can never seem to make up its mind. Does it want to separate itself from popular culture, or does it want to embrace popular culture? Sometimes it seems to want to do both, rejecting pop culture for awhile, … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Culture
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College and Religious Belief
Dennis Prager has a column up at National Review titled Why God Isn’t Doing Well. He notes that God isn’t doing well these days, although he’s vague about what that means. He attributes this to a number of causes, mostly … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Religion
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Beck's Dichotomy
Well, Albany has become famous. We’ve been mentioned by Glenn Beck. This takes a little explaining. Albany is a multi-college town, and we have some neighborhoods that are largely composed of college students renting row houses. A couple weekends ago, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Videos, Weird
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UF: Equal Opportunity Critics
Folks, I’ve been thinking a bit about some of the posts that the UF team has brought you recently, and it seems to me that we might have inadvertantly implied that Christians, particularly Catholics priests, are the only people who … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Hypocrisy, Islam
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Atheist Feminists Reading Mormon Mommies
I’m trying to process Emily Matchar’s piece at Salon: Why I can’t stop reading Mormon housewife blogs. I’m a young, feminist atheist who can’t bake a cupcake. Why am I addicted to the shiny, happy lives of these women? The … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Mormonism
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Tony Porter on gender socialisation.
The recent debates here about what is and is not offensive in the world of gender-based insults put me in mind of a talk on TED (specifically TED Women) from Tony Porter. I honestly think this talk made me grow … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Current Events, Education
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The Contradiction of Christian Nationalism
I was writing a post on this, when I saw that Ed Brayton had posted a clip by David Cross which neatly – and amusingly – sums up the problem:
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Politics
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