Jerry Coyne's image above seemed worth sharing. It has a partisan slant to it, but the main message is one that transcends all allegiances except being cat-obsessed. Â Â Read more
Jerry Coyne's image above seemed worth sharing. It has a partisan slant to it, but the main message is one that transcends all allegiances except being cat-obsessed. Â Â Read more
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I wonder how many of those who make ridiculous paranoid claims about presidential candidates actually believe them, and how many of those who originate them do so knowing full well that they are false, but hoping that enough gullible people will fall for them to help swing the election. Fred Clark has a nice round-up of right wing predictions of post-election doom and gloom if Obama is elected, from what he aptly describes as a “sub-Christian” perspective. But it is not... Read more
Jerry Coyne shared this Non Sequitur cartoon from today’s paper, saying that it dispels the fallacy that religious believers all worship the same god: The view that religious believers in different religious traditions worship the same deity is itself a particular religious viewpoint. It does not deny that many, perhaps the majority, in a large number of religious traditions, disagree with the identification. And so, since I don’t think that most people who claim that various religions worship the same God... Read more
David Hayward re-shared this classic cartoon of his this morning: Last time I shared it, I titled the post “Love Song to the Dark Lord.” Click through if you don’t get the allusion. Read more
Some of the Star Wars-Disney mash-up images that have appeared since the new broke about Disney acquiring LucasFilm have been quite entertaining. Here are some of my favorites. If there is one that you really like but which isn't included below, please share it! Â Â Read more
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I think that all those who are concerned for the spiritual health and integrity of Christianity in the United States should give thanks for Mitt Romney's candidacy. Many of us have been saying for many years that conservative and fundamentalist Christianity in America had sold its soul for a mess of political pottage, and had traded the gospel of Christ for right-wing economic policies and traditional American (rather than Biblical) social values. But in the past, it was possible to... Read more
The supreme council of biblioblog overlords has decided…OK, so of course there is no such thing, but some of us have chatted and have suggested a venue and two possible times for the bibliobloggers' gathering this year in Chicago at SBL. We will gather at Kitty O'Shea's, an Irish pub at the Chicago Hilton. You can see their menu online. The question is whether to gather at around 7:00pm on Sunday night, or 8:30 or 9pm on Monday night. And... Read more
In recent weeks I've regularly heard Catholic bloggers and commentators complain that the new healthcare legislation infringes on their religious liberty, since it will require them to pay for coverage which will allow their employees to get contraception and other things that are against Catholic teaching. Something didn't sit quite right with me. Today I realized what is wrong with this sort of claim – and as so often happens, the secret to spotting the problem was simply to insert... Read more
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