"Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the speechless sing for joy." Read more
"Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the speechless sing for joy." Read more
It would be dreadfully foolish for me, as a Christian, to accept at face value Ayn Rand's assertion that her philosophy represented the One True Definition of Atheism. It would be foolish and wrong for me to think that I could turn around and use this definition in the same way that Rand's Randiest disciples do -- as a means of separating the wheat from the chaff and of making pronouncements about who is and who is not really, truly an atheist, or about what atheism really entails, or what all real atheists do and must really believe. Read more
Rather than post something half-assed today, I'll be posting something tomorrow that will, I hope, be wholly and completely -assed. Thank you for your patience. Read more
Instead of Bill Nye, I would like to see a formal debate between young-Earth creationist Ken Ham and a 6.5-meter core sample taken from a peat bog in Switzerland. Aww yeah, Acts 10 & 11, baby. More Jerks for Jesus. One problem with trying to write while the tribal gatekeepers are looking over your shoulder. Frank Luntz agonistes. Read more
"I am interested in writing that shows me the world in a new way," says the blogger who gives us the wonderful Phantom's List every week. That's just what her weekly list of "writing by women around the Web" provides. Read more
By assembling one single Very Bad evangelism-training video out of several less-bad videos, this editing confuses the point. It blurs the different kinds of badness to be found in the originals. That makes it more difficult to analyze or understand why those different original videos were bad in different ways. Read more
"Financial literacy" training doesn't work, which is why Old Man Potter likes it. We were winning the War on Poverty, until we cut and run. Dr. Awojobi can save your life with corn cobs, duct tape and spare parts. Women impertinently sue, claiming they should have the same rights to religious liberty as a corporation. "Yes, that is exactly what you are supposed to do." Read more
Basically, ReligiousLeftLaw is likely to appeal to you if you're the kind of person who is inclined to like a blog titled "ReligiousLeftLaw." That name describes a Venn diagram of three overlapping circles -- people who are religious, people who identify with the "Left," and people who are interested in the law. And in the middle there, at the nexus of those three circles, you'll find this blog. Read more
Pastors in Indiana are routinely committing "behaviors that are already designated as crimes" -- assault, vandalism, terroristic threats and destruction of property -- and they are apparently doing so on Sunday mornings during their sermons. I'm not accusing them of this, but anti-gay religious-right group Advance America insists it's true. Read more
Christianity provides a compelling foundation for human rights for some Christians. But this sectarian basis for human rights cannot be compelling for those who do not belong to the Christian sect. And this sectarian basis for human rights, in practice and in fact, does not seem to be compelling for many of those who do belong to that sect. Read more
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