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Sundry letters from the mailbag with reactions to the trilogy: Got a note this morning from the friend to whom I had lent my “Mary” set (the cradle Catholic who left the Church early, was “saved” and married among our Evangelical Proddy brethren, and now — a few decades and children later — is feeling a strong Churchward pull, even as he anticipates the difficulties it will cause among his family and friends): “Ok, these books are killing me (only... Read more

Sundry letters from the mailbag with reactions to the trilogy: Got a note this morning from the friend to whom I had lent my “Mary” set (the cradle Catholic who left the Church early, was “saved” and married among our Evangelical Proddy brethren, and now — a few decades and children later — is feeling a strong Churchward pull, even as he anticipates the difficulties it will cause among his family and friends): “Ok, these books are killing me (only... Read more

A reader writes: My husband and I have been experiencing horrific financial troubles lately, due to the one-two combo of opening a business and last year’s economic meltdown. I have been praying for a job for months. I started the novena that Reader Carbon Monoxide sent you, and it has worked for me, too. I’m still in shock and things have been so rough for us that I’m afraid the negotiations for this job are going to fall apart or... Read more

A reader writes: My husband and I have been experiencing horrific financial troubles lately, due to the one-two combo of opening a business and last year’s economic meltdown. I have been praying for a job for months. I started the novena that Reader Carbon Monoxide sent you, and it has worked for me, too. I’m still in shock and things have been so rough for us that I’m afraid the negotiations for this job are going to fall apart or... Read more

Reason #34985734: Lampooning Liturgical Dance Suckishness Read more

Someday, someone should write an opera about the hubris behind the rise and fall of Ave Maria. Sad to see so many good people get chewed up by this machine. Read more

David Stove, author of the piece below taking apart sundry crazy Darwinian dogmas is also notoriously the author of a (I suspect, partly tongue in cheek) piece called “The Intellectual Capacity of Women” in which he utters the blasphemous suggestion “I believe that the intellectual capacity of women is on the whole inferior to that of men.” Now, I don’t buy that myself, mostly because I’ve known so many women who are obviously not just brighter, but wiser, than men.... Read more

A quite enjoyable dissection of some of the crazy things you have to believe in order to be embrace the Darwin Mythos as your All Explaining Theory of Everything from an atheist who has not drunk the Kool-Aid. He lists off ten Darwinian dogmas that are obviously false and then has a jolly time eviscerating them. I particularly enjoyed this bit: 9. The more privileged people are the more prolific: if one class in a society is less exposed than... Read more

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