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Archive for the 'Religion' Category
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
by Mike
I just ran across this post on a washingtonpost.com blog. The author, a prominent Jewish Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, argues that the Pew Forum survey on religion overestimates the number of atheists in the United States (they estimate about 1.6% of Americans). Rabbi Steinsaltz argues that “true atheists” have two rare qualities: 1) an [...]
Posted in Religion | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
by Mike
Humility. Temperance. Stewardship. Modesty. These are all good Christian values. They are good conservative values as well. Jesus taught them (as have most of the world’s great religious leaders of all faiths). In most cases, our parents and grandparents taught them as well. Christians, and I think [...]
Posted in Environment, Religion | 3 Comments »
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
by Mike
I’ve been looking up some demographic data today, and ran across the Pew Forum survey. In particular, they have detailed information on the religious breakdown of the country, as a whole and broken down by states. I found some of this pretty surprising. For instance:
Posted in 2008 Election, Religion | 1 Comment »
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
by Mike
Mitt Romney gave his Mormon speech today. At least that’s how his campaign, aided and abetted by the media, have been spinning it. In reality, the speech is not nearly as controversial as it could have been, nor is it as revolutionary as some are calling it. It was just a campaign [...]
Posted in 2008 Election, Religion | No Comments »
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
by Doc Opp
Ah Hanukkah, the festival of lights. Many Christians are unaware of the significance of Hanukkah. Allow me to enlighten you: there is none.
Hanukkah is the celebration of a victory in a minor battle, in a minor war, that the Jews eventually lost. If I were to list the top dozen Jewish holidays in order of [...]
Posted in Religion, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Monday, October 8th, 2007
by Mike
The New York Times published a story this weekend about several evangelical churches that are using the new Halo 3 video game to bring youths and young adults into church. Halo 3 is poised to be the top video game released this year, and possibly this decade. It is also an incredibly violent first-person shooter, [...]
Posted in Religion | 2 Comments »
Thursday, June 28th, 2007
by Mike
Six Supreme Court decisions this week. All of them (but one) were decided 5-4. In my mind, the court got about half of them right… the problem is that the ones they got wrong were real doozies. Here are the cases, from best to worst (in my opinion):
Posted in 2008 Election, Bill of Rights, Judicial System, Legal Philosophy, Racism, Religion | 15 Comments »
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
by Mike
Today’s New York Times has an extremely interesting article discussing new advances in the field of evolutionary-development, and what it means for our understanding of the processes of evolution. Assuming that the information presented in this article is correct (a decent assumption, but one should always take mass-media articles on technical subjects with a significant [...]
Posted in Creation and Evolution, Religion, Science | 9 Comments »
Sunday, June 17th, 2007
by Doc Opp
I’m sick of seeing all this press about Romney being a Mormon. Because it plays right into his hands. The thing is, there aren’t all that many people in this country who would refuse to vote for somebody based on the candidate’s religion. Sure, there are some, but those are people that [...]
Posted in 2008 Election, Religion | 3 Comments »
Monday, June 11th, 2007
by Mike
In an excellent blog entry at NYTimes.com, law professor Stanley Fish notes that three recent books critiquing religion all share a few basic ideas, including the dismissal of faith. These books, like so many others who attack religious belief, set faith as the opposite of reason and then claim that any argument that cannot [...]
Posted in Creation and Evolution, Religion, Science, The Media | 2 Comments »
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