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Bush Loyalists Admit Impotence

Bush Loyalists Admit Impotence

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Governor Sonny Perdue is joining lawmakers and ministers on the steps of the Georgia state Capitol to pray for rain. How totally embarrassing. Well, Bush let ’em down – “Tough luck, Georgia.” Water is not a partisan issue. You have water or you don’t. They’ve known about the potential problems of a rapidly-expanding state (and city) population for some time. Instead of planning and accountability, we get prayers. They’ve made noises about it being interdenominational, but here that probably means…

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On the Gospel of War

On the Gospel of War

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I stumbled across a great post at live. laugh. love. As a person trying to do things to make this world a better place, it makes me very angry to read the glorification of violence and death in violence as something done out of love and endorsed by God. Loving your neighbor as yourself does not include trying to kill them in the first place. In a global sense, aren’t we all neighbors? Aren’t we all brothers and sisters? Seems…

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Major Religion Memes in 90 Seconds

Major Religion Memes in 90 Seconds

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Maps of War has a really interesting mapping of religion memes – spread and warfare: How has the geography of religion evolved over the centuries, and where has it sparked wars? Our map gives us a brief history of the world’s most well-known religions: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism. Selected periods of inter-religious bloodshed are also highlighted. Want to see 5,000 years of religion in 90 seconds? See full size

May She Be the New Jesus (so to speak)

May She Be the New Jesus (so to speak)

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I have something to say about the recent Supreme Court decision that upheld the ban on late-term abortions, whether or not the pregnancy endangers the woman’s life. I’m a pragmatic contextual ethicist with a spiritual sensibility, and I cannot be silent. I cannot pretend that I don’t understand the next step in this game. If you stop for a moment to think about it, what will be required next is blindingly obvious. A dead woman. All you vultures will sit…

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Freedom Religion Liberty

Freedom Religion Liberty

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That’s how I like to see it – religion flanked on either side by freedom and liberty. Liberty of religious belief and expression, freedom of religion from government intervention and freedom of government from religious intervention. Freedom of thought, freedom of mind, freedom of belief. When I was a kid, it was very common for us to say, “It’s a free country. You can’t tell me what to do.” We used it in a wide range of situations, some of…

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Language is a Virus

Language is a Virus

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I was looking at my dissertation today, wondering if I can yet make a readable book out of it. Now that I’ve got a little distance from what was an agonizing process (at least until the last bit, when I actually started enjoying it), it seems better than I thought at the time. Today I’m posting a very select few of the quotations I used as a kind of shorthand that helps me remember the train of thought that’s at…

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