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Monthly Archives: January 2009
What’s the Difference?
I watched Bill O’Reilly’s show last night on Fox News. The Big Mick was going on about how the successful ditching of that plane in the Hudson River, and the rescue of all on board, must have been a miracle. … Continue reading
Posted in culture
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“So Help Me God”
Per Peter R. Henriques at History News Network, an oft-told tale about George Washington’s first inaugural oath of office is a “myth that should be discarded“. (h/t: Ian Geldard on Twitter). And I don’t even need to page Jonathan Rowe … Continue reading
On Judeo-Christian
I’ve recently triggered a round of discussion on several weblogs around the interwebs relating to the term “Judeo-Christianity,” especially when it comes to definiting the civilization of the West (as in, “our Judeo-Christian culture”). I started the discussion here, … Continue reading
Posted in Definition, history, Uncategorized
Tagged Christendom, Christianity, history, Judeo-Christian, The West
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A secular perspective on politics?
I’ve been thinking of what it means to be of the “Secular Right” recently due to the comment threads where people asked us to weigh in on our specific political positions. Some people take the Secular Right to be libertarian … Continue reading
Brother can you spare a bit of Arminianism?
Somewhat related to Heather’s post, God’s Problem, see this fascinating New York Times Magazine piece on neo-Calvinism, Who Would Jesus Smack Down?: Mars Hill — with its conservative social teachings embedded in guitar solos and drum riffs, its megachurch presence … Continue reading
Miscellany, January 14
Tattoo-parlor Calvinism at Seattle’s Mars Hill Church, blazing new trails in quien-es-mas-macho discipleship. P.S. DH and I independently noticed this story and posted on it only minutes apart. Read his post. Latest in Michael Newdow’s suit over religious references in … Continue reading
Camille Paglia
How can it be that no posts on this site have mentioned her till now? …I respect the Bible as one of the world’s greatest books, based on a magnificent body of oral poetry. It is a fundamental text that … Continue reading
God’s Problem
Several friends have recommended Martin Gardner’s review of Bart Ehrman’s God’s Problem in the New Criterion, the brilliant journal of principled culture criticism. Gardner, a math and science writer, lays out a Leibnizian explanation for life-destroying natural disasters: Any human-supportive universe … Continue reading
Evolution, Technology, and the Economy
A reader draws my attention to this rather good systems-theoretic piece by Matt Ridley in the London Spectator. Charles Darwin, who was born 200 years ago next month, has spent the 150 years since he published The Origin of Species … Continue reading
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Science & society
I have a piece up at Taki’s Magazine, The Limits of Certitude. It might be read along with a post at ScienceBlogs, Science is rational; scientists are not. I might as well have labeled it “An argument for conservatism.”