Breakfast Links for 12/14/12 – Hobbit on Steroids; Verbal Autopsies; NASA vs. the Mayans

BREAKFAST LINKS 12/14/12:

Jeffery Overstreet, Patheos/Good Letters: “But where Tolkien served the head and the heart, Jackson serves the appetite for adrenalin rush.”

Bradley Abramson, Christian Post: Merry Atheistic Nothingness

Kathryn Jean Lopez, Catholic Impulse: Sandra Fluke for Time’s Woman of the Year

John Turner, Patheos/The Anxious Bench: “Human beings did invent religions, I told myself, but they did not invent God. They set up religions as a way of experiencing and re-experiencing their feeling that a God who lay beyond all human reckoning was somehow present in their midst.”

R. Albert Mohler, Jr., The Baptist Press: Newsweek vs. the New Testament

Tim Dalrymple, Patheos/Philosophical Fragments: “Move too far to the Left and you’re no longer really a Christian.  Move too far to the Right and you’re just a nut-job, but a saved nut-job.  That seems to be the assumption.”

John Hawkins, Townhall.Com: Myths Liberals Created About Themselves

Michael D. Lemonick, Time: NASA vs. Maya – End of the World Madness

Michaeleen Doucleff, NPR: Verbal Autopsies and Death

Victor Davis Hanson, Real Clear Politics: The Real ‘Fat Cats’