I had an online course offering drawn to my attention, via Keith Furman’s blog. Denis Lamoureux is offering an online course, an introduction to religion and science, which some readers of this blog might be interested in taking. But even if not, they may find the lectures and other materials on the course web site interesting and useful. Read more
Genres are less like pigeon-holes than like pigeons. Constantly moving, endlessly diverse, and always multiplying. –Ken Brown on Facebook paraphrasing Carol Newsome’s quote from Alistair Fowler Read more
I came across this image online: It is perhaps less than convincing to try to think of this as anything other than “Saint Peter's Church” with a missing letter, since anyone who would get the apostrophe correct in “Peter's” would surely also put one in “Ain't” – or perhaps more likely write “This is not.” But there are still lots of ways to have a good conversation using this image as a starting point. To whom do churches belong? To... Read more
Via Rachel Held Evans, I learned of this recent XKCD comic: Instead of having these nightmares, you can actually avoid them by taking some simple steps while a student: Read the syllabus. Put deadlines into an electronic calendar like Outlook, and put a reminder alert scheduled for as long before that deadline as you need, in order to have enough time to research it and write it properly. Better still, put a deadline in by which you will expect yourself... Read more
Many of you have probably seen the round-up of “The 35 Best Times Someone on Facebook Thought The Onion Was Real.” I am saddened by how many of them involve gullibility on the part of Christians. Here are some examples: There is an entire web site, “Literally Unbelievable,” dedicated to The Onion being taken seriously on Facebook. Once you have finished laughing at the original satirical article in The Onion, you can now get additional laughs by looking to see who took it seriously!... Read more
Given the title, this post could easily have been about contradictions within the Bible and whether they disprove Biblical inerrancy, or whether one has to start with the doctrine of inerrancy and insist that anything that appears to be a contradiction isn't really one. And I will come back to that. But the fact is that, just as the Bible is the result of many authors with different perspectives, so too are statements about inerrancy. And that fact illustrates that... Read more
via Facebook. This is not the first abridged history I’ve come across and shared here. Please feel free to tell me about others! And it isn’t just videos of cats that are being shared, as this picture I came across recently provides but one example of… Read more
Today I had my attention drawn to the “Answers in Genesis” entry on the Uncyclopedia. It begins as follows: Answers in Genesis is a satirical Christian ministry that parodies the genuine Pastafarian ministry Answers in the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. It aims to portray Christians as mouth breathing, arm swinging retards who sit on their high horse and spend all day whining about how horrible the world is today and how oh so nice it was during the Dark Ages. The website often has... Read more
Daniel Dunlap pointed out to me the existence of a parody of the “Coffee with Jesus” cartoons on Facebook: Coffee with Dr. Zaius. Here are a couple of examples: Most of the rest are dated political commentary. But I thought it was an interesting parody of the popular and very simply illustrated comic strip. Who else would it be worth creating a comic strip about people having coffee with that individual? Read more
It sounds like it should be the name of a TV show for children. But it is instead a display at the Creation Museum. This is the sort of thing that Ken Ham wants people to believe: The photo is courtesy of John Loftus’ recent blog post about his visit to the Creation Museum. Answers in Genesis is not defending the Christian faith, it is turning it into something that can be easily ridiculed and dismissed. The real enemies of... Read more
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