Against conservative gloominess Roger Kimball will have none of it: From time immemorial conservatives have delighted in writing works with titles like Leviathan, The Decline of the West, The Waste Land. …
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Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!
http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/05/duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.htmlDuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck! This is one you'll really want to read: Gregg Easterbrook's Atlantic Monthly cover story on the rather disconcerting odds that a Rilly Big Space Rock might fall on our heads. Excerpt: In 1980, only 86 near-Earth asteroids and comets were known to exist. …
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Ambulance chaser meets ugly with ambulance
http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2008/05/ambulance-chaser-meets-ugly-wi.htmlAmbulance chaser meets ugly with ambulance A rich Texas ambulance-chasing lawyer is in critical condition after a fire engine with sirens blazing plowed into his Bentley today in Dallas. I hope he recovers fully, if only so we can all appreciate the irony in good conscience. …
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How Did We Drink Up the Sea?
http://pomoco.typepad.com/postmodern_conservative/2008/05/ho...side of the fence where we saw it coming. Not just for face-saving purposes. To have missed this would betoken a grave mental malfunction. Summer of last year I laid it out plainly enough in a post now lost in the American Scene matrix. Fortunately Rod
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Discovering Fire
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TheChristianAlert.org
http://www.thechristianalert.orgThe Christiansphere: News & Headlines Why they're not emergent JOHN HAGEEāS DUAL COVENANT THEOLOGY My Year Inside Radical Islam - Part 6 Pope declares astronomers and ET's covered by the blood of Jesus! MORE THAN A MANIFESTO
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Adventures in Domesticity
http://domesticadventure.blogspot.comThe Heart of the Matter Letters from Kamp Krusty Making Home Crunchy Con Stuff Christians Like Internet Monk - Michael Spencer Writing and Living American Scientific Affiliation Christianity Today Knitty
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De paus en de pedo's.
http://eindstationislamabad.blogspot.com/2008/04/de-paus-en-...kerk en de bisschopsbenoemingen grotendeels aan anderen overliet) kon een toenemend aantal van hen hoog stijgen binnen de kerk, tot het niveau van aartsbisschop en leider van een seminarie toe (recente voorbeelden zijn de kardinalen Joseph Bernardin en Theodore McCarrick). Het probleem werd steeds groter door het feit dat heteroseksuelen zodanig afknapten op de homo-erotische sfeer in veel seminaries en ook zodanig buitengesloten werden, dat velen hun roeping opgaven. De rooms-katholieke kerk is altijd volstrekt
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The peasants -- they just gotta work harder....
http://hesagoodblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/peasants-they-just-...Crunchy Con
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The Elephant in Winter
http://stalter.blogspot.com/2008/05/elephant-in-winter.htmlAlong these lines, Rod Dreher of Crunchy Con has a post on the future of the GOP. The post has a great comment thread going and I make a few appearances to argue for my particular vision for the party. Check it out here
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Gay marriage: For every battle 'lost,' doesn't someone win?
http://religionblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/05/for-ever...Beliefnet blog
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Opinionated Catholic
http://opinionatedcatholic.blogspot.coma four-year-old saved herself and her baby sister from the murderers who beat her mother to death, and slashed her little brother's throat, and then hers. He has background here at She's not heavy, she's my sister and follows it up with this good post Good, evil, ascetism and creativity. I like when he says :"This is why I think the lives of the saints are so important to us, as well as true art -- this, as distinct from moral exhortation and abstract reasoning (which, don't get me wrong, have their place). We need to see what it is
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Our Pantheist Future
http://rossdouthat.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/our_pant...David Brooks' column on neuroscience and religion has attracted a fair amount of comment from my favorite bloggers: Andrew is favorable, Rod is puzzled, Dougherty and Larison dismissive. Here's Brooks' conclusion: If you survey the literature ... you can see that certain beliefs will spread into the wider discussion. ... First, the self is not a fixed entity but a dynamic process of relationships.
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