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• How Say You, Horatio?

  
  A Feather Adrift — Authority: 126
  The bible is a curious document. Some, for fairly self-serving reasons, suggest that it must be read with childlike wonder, allowing the Spirit to guide understanding. While this is certainly part of the process, there is no need to deny our rational mind when doing so. Many suggest that treating the bible as an ...
  2 days ago

• The Year of Living Biblically

  
  thinktoomuch.net — Authority: 99
  About two weeks ago a friend gave me his copy of The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs. I had read all about it in 2007, having added the following to my mini-blog / delicious bookmarks ( biblical+living ): 27 SEP 07 A year of following all the rules in the Bible – Boing Boing “I did everything the ...
  5 days ago

• Beef Jerky Action Cam??

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  I am not making this up. Here I am, watching the big college football game of the week on tv — LSU v Alabama — suddenly wondering how I can be so riveted by any meme that involves a “beef jerky action cam!”Posted in colleges and universities, Cynical Stuff, Framing, Health, Humor, Identity, Language, ...
  6 days ago

• Almost a Literalist

  
  Exploring Our Matrix — Authority: 603
  I think this is one of the best cartoons on so-called Biblical literalism I have ever seen (HT Experimental Theology ). You may need to click through to get the full-sized version.
  1 week ago

• Pure Dead Brilliant — Jon Stewart Channels Glenn Beck

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  more about "Pure Dead Brilliant — Jon Stewart Ch…", posted with vodpod Posted in Advocacy, Cognitive Psychology, Creative Class, Cynical Stuff, Discipline-behavior, Dominionists, Ethics and Philosophy, Framing, Health, Humor, Journalism, Language, learning, Liberties and Rights, Literacy, Literalism, Logic, ...
  1 week ago

• Capitol Hill Mad Hatters Show Up for More Tea Partying

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  Tea Partiers Hit Capitol:They arrived as early as 8:30 a.m., by bus, car and plane — from Bluffton, S.C., Des Moines and Dorris, Calif. — to rally with conservative lawmakers and possibly roam the halls of Congress.“Can you hear us now!” they chanted from the foot of the Capitol, as they awaited the arrival of ...
  1 week ago

• Maine Repeals Gays as Human; Public School Parent Protests Gays as Animals

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  Dan Delong of Carlinville, Ill., at teacher at Southwestern High School in the nearby town of Piasa, will face a school board hearing November 2, after being suspended from teaching. A parent of one unidentified student thought the optional reading assignment was inappropriate for her child . . .When this and this ...
  1 week ago

• Divine Considerateness – How God Speaks to Us

  
  Fr. Ted's Blog — Authority: 128
  This is the second and concluding blog in which I am commenting on Robert Hill’s READING THE OLD TESTAMENT IN ANTIOCH.  The first blog was titled Reading the Old Testament in Ancient Antioch .   I ended the first blog with Hill’s comment: “ The Scriptures, like the Incarnation, come to us as a gesture of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Young Son the Political and Cultural Cynic

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  So you know he’s been reading Les Miserables, all 1,400 pages.I guess it makes sense he would relate the author’s social themes to his own present reality as synced up with his own favorite social commentary artists by night, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, and as opposed to the years of rantings and vitriol ...
  2 weeks ago

• How Do You Define What’s Up (at pussy)Cat’s?

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  The latest round of thinking parents playing “What’s in a Name?” as a floating blog-game of religion and politics costumed as each other for Halloween, apparently started with Lynn and JJ and many commenters both places, riffing on Frank Schaeffer’s books and his new MSNBC repudiation of the evangelical ...
  2 weeks ago

• “Collision: Is Religion Absurd or Good for the World?”

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  Last fall, we went on tour debating the topic “Is Religion Good For The World?” Our arguments were captured on film for a new documentary, Collision. Are our morals dictated to us by a supreme entity or do discoveries made by science and reason, make Atheism a natural conclusion? You decide.Christopher Hitchens ...
  3 weeks ago

• Telling Children Who They Are and What’s Within Them

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  “You are not half. You are a whole soul living in a divided world. “There Is No Such Thing as Halfby Joanna BrooksWhat comes out when a Mormon and a Jew raise a kid? . .You are a body spun from ancient dust and ancient water; you are the glorious hope of legions of ancestors [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Witchcraft and Children in Africa: How to Read the Bible Badly

  
  Progressive Revival — Authority: 524
  Some African churches have taken a frightening literal turn: accusing children of witchcraft and torturing or killing them to purify their souls.  Over the weekend, the Associated Press reported that more than 15,000 Nigerian children have been accused of being...
  3 weeks ago

• Smartest Two Percent Use It to Conclude Home Education is Smart

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  Spunky is blogging a Mensa study done by that organization’s foundation to research the nature of intelligence:First-year college performance:A study of home school graduates and traditional school graduatesThe academic performance analyses indicate that home school graduates are as ready for college as traditional ...
  3 weeks ago

• Never Mind That Using Kids Is Immoral in Any Belief System

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  Including Church. Including School. Including journalism and media. Including “entrepreneurial” or “abstinence” or “extraterrestrial” or “family values” beliefs. Including political arguments about saving liberty or avoiding debt for the next generation.Just for today, never mind the real horrors and ...
  4 weeks ago

• How Humans Are Hard-Wired to Treat Each Other

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  “So easy a caveman could do it” sells insurance on tv as laissez faire capitalism good for us all. A new congressman boldly goes where no Dem has gone before, calling out GOP obstructionists and greedy antisocial insurance companies as “foot-dragging, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals” this week. [see six-minute ...
  5 weeks ago

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