Someone has created a Facebook event that seems to be aimed at ridding the world of those Christians who are anti-intellectual, illogical and gullible: HT Scott Bailey and Hemant Mehta What do readers think? Is this an excellent satire, a serious challenge, a joke in poor taste, a really good idea, or something else? Read more
As a Christian, I seek to live by the Golden Rule. SMBC has a cartoon which calls into question whether even that principle represents a perfect ethical law (HT Hemant Mehta): I doubt (although feel free not to correct me) that anyone actually has the fetish mentioned in the cartoon. But I can well imagine someone objecting to the attempt to provide equal access to healthcare, for instance, by saying that they genuinely do not think they or anyone else... Read more
Today in my Sunday school class, in mentioning the depiction in Nehemiah of armed Israelites wielding both weapons and tools, inadvertently said “guns” instead of “swords.” This led to an important observation: if the Bible were not a collection of texts constrained by the knowledge available to its authors, but included revelation of information not thus available, then we should be very surprised that there is no gunpowder in the Bible. Those most surprised ought to be the young-earth creationists... Read more
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Here is a round-up of my blogging about every episode from the Patrick Troughton era of Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks The Highlanders The Underwater Menace The Moonbase The Macra Terror The Faceless Ones The Evil of the Daleks The Tomb of the Cybermen The Abominable Snowmen The Ice Warriors The Enemy of the World The Web of Fear Fury from the Deep The Wheel In Space The Dominators The Mind Robber The Invasion The Krotons The Seeds... Read more
In the latest issue of The Bible and Interpretation, Thomas L. Thompson offers a very odd rebuke to Bart Ehrman. Thompson mentions things like Philo's love of allegory and Qoheleth's assertion of our lack of novelty, as though these somehow will allow one to open the door to any and all interpretations of texts, including those proposed by mythicists, although Thompson seems to be trying to both defend mythicism and distance himself from it. He points out, as he does... Read more
It isn't even Christmas, yet I just came across a photo of a manger on display in a workplace (at The Mills River Progressive). I think this is a manger that Christians, atheists, and everyone else will agree that it was appropriate to display in a workplace in this way… Posted with Blogsy Read more
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It seems that I somehow managed to neglect blogging about the episode “The Dominators” after listening to the episode as an audiobook some months ago. Here are my thoughts on it! The episode “The Dominators” sees the Doctor landing on a world that has embraced pacifism completely. The planet has no prisons, and an island where once in the past a nuclear test was carried out is kept as a warning. On this world, Dulkis, a flying saucer carrying members... Read more
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