Posted in Christian Right, Christianity, DNA, Darwin, Educational Policy, atheism, creationism, education, ethics, evolution, inteligent design, morality, prayer, religion, religious intolerance, religious right on May 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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Just a little tidbit I found on YouTube. If it weren’t so sad it might actually be funny. As the anti-evolutionists seek to introduce biblical mythology, call it what you will–creation science, intelligent design–into the classroom, they seem willing to turn back the clock to a time more reminiscent of the [...]
Posted in American Taliban, Christian Right, Christianity, Starbucks, atheism, beliefs, bigotry, pop culture, religion, religious intolerance, religious right, theism, values on May 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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Who would have thought that a cup of coffee could be so offensive. When the following appeared on a Starbucks’ cup I laughed a bit and moved on with my life:
You are not an accident. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He wanted you alive and created you for [...]
Posted in American Taliban, Bush, Christian Right, Christianity, Political Theory, Politics, extremists, human rights, religion, religious intolerance, religious right, theocracy on May 10, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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After nearly 6-1/2 years of the Bush Theocracy, an absolutism born of the desire to control the private thoughts of citizens of the United States, to insure that the absurdest, religious based notion of intelligent design be taught in public schools, wars waged on abortion, homosexuality, and other moral campaigns, the stacking of the [...]
Posted in Christianity, atheism, beliefs, bigotry, pop culture on April 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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clipped from www.reuters.com
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Roman Catholic Church has effectively buried the concept of limbo, the place where centuries of tradition and teaching held that babies who die without baptism went.
Pope Benedict, himself a top theologian who before his election in 2005 expressed doubts about limbo, authorized the publication of the document, [...]
Posted in Christianity, Constitution, Culture, Politics, gun control, guns, religion, shooting on April 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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Reporting for Reuters, Andrea Hopkins writes:
By all accounts, the prayers started even before the gunshots stopped at Virginia Tech university, and the pleas to God from grief-stricken survivors of the massacre have continued ever since.
“God cares about Virginia Tech,” said Megan Martin, 24, joining about a dozen fellow students in a traveling prayer vigil [...]
Posted in Christianity, Cultural Studies, Culture, Islam, Judaism, Lenin, Marx, Muslim, beliefs, pop culture, religion on April 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished reading Harold Bloom’s Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine. I had a hard time putting this extraordinary work of non-fiction down. Bloom’s scholarship is as solid as his writing style. For anyone wanting to think seriously about the origins of religious belief, about the monotheisms that pervade western thought, for those, like [...]
Posted in Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Christianity, Conservatives, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Deconstruction, Jung, Lacan, Lenin, Marx, Philosophy, Political Theory, Politics, Radical, St. Paul, Žižek on April 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
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Žižek (2001) makes the claim that in order to break the liberal-democratic hegemony in order to reclaim an authentic radical posture, one must endorse a position that refuses to compromise (in the pragmatic political sense) and be willing to accept both the positive and negative effects of one’s position. To do otherwise is [...]
Posted in Bush, Christianity, Conservatives, History, Iraq, Islam, Muslim, Philosophy, Politics, War, peace, presidency, religion on April 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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Reported by STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writer on Yahoo.com
The powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his militiamen on Sunday to redouble their battle to oust American forces and argued that Iraq’s army and police should join him in defeating “your archenemy.” The U.S. nilitary annoucned the weekend deaths of 10 American [...]
Posted in Christianity, Conservatives, Culture, Darwin, Ontology, education, evolution, inteligent design, religion, science on April 7, 2007 | 3 Comments »
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Embarrassingly, in the 21st century, in the most scientifically advanced nation the world has ever known, creationists can still persuade politicians, judges and ordinary citizens that evolution is a flawed, poorly supported fantasy. They lobby for creationist ideas such as “intelligent design” to be taught as alternatives to evolution in science classrooms. As this [...]
Posted in Bush, Christianity, Conservatives, Constitution, Philosophy, Political Theory, Politics, bigotry, pop culture on April 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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Appearing in the Peninusla Clarion. The writer demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of both the point of the first amendment and the history of ‘In God We Trust’ as a jingoistic slogan. Now I suppose it is okay for a citizen to be ignorant but for an editor to actually choose this [...]
Posted in Christianity, Crusades, Islam, Judaism, Muslim, beliefs, religion on April 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I am bothered by the construction Judeo-Christian tradition (ethic, ethic principles, morals, values) that seems to have cropped up in American English usage in the past 35 to 40 years. It seems to me that two factors are in play here. The first is associated with guilt and the second is associated with [...]
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