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Tag Archives: daily slaughter of the innocents
Thy will be done
A heavy snow is whipping the New York City region, blown relentlessly by winds expected to reach 60 mph later tonight. Thousands in the area are still without electricity or heat in the wake of Hurricane Sandy and are living in … Continue reading
Connecticut Governor: Go pray!
Connecticut Governor Dannel Molloy this morning advised his state’s residents to prepare for Hurricane Sandy and then go “pray.” What exactly would those prayers look like? “Dear God: Even though you’ve sent this hurricane (because nothing happens on earth that … Continue reading
Richard Mourdock, the consistent Christian
“I just struggled with it myself for a long time but I came to realize: Life is that gift from God that I think even if life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God … Continue reading
Doubt and belief
From the Wall Street Journal’s Houses of Worship column, by the author of When God Talks Back: in more experientially oriented evangelical Christian communities . . . people expect to have a personal relationship with God. They go for walks with … Continue reading
Another non-Muslim shooting
The lethal gun rampage at Oikos University in Oakland, California, on Monday was a horrific tragedy, mind-numbing in its incomprehensibility for the seven victims’ families and for anyone connected to the school. Secular Right sends its condolences to the community. The Oikos … Continue reading
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Atheists behaving churlishly
Of the various Christmas sightseeing destinations offered a child in 1960s Los Angeles, the Santa Monica crèches—a series of small stage sets erected on the bluffs above the Pacific Coast Highway–were particularly alluring. The life-sized mannequins that populated the chicken-wire … Continue reading
Bachmann interprets Hurricane Irene and Perry prays for rain
Michelle Bachman recently suggested that the summer’s catastrophic weather reflects God’s displeasure with the course of American politics: “I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians . . . We’ve had an … Continue reading
America’s unique advantage: religious faith?
On a recent shuttle van ride from the Los Angeles International Airport, I directed the African driver to pause before turning left into a blind intersection. Instead, he barreled across without looking. Not to worry, he said, I’m a professional … Continue reading
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Tagged daily slaughter of the innocents, moral reasoning, petitionary prayer, saints
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The solipsism of faith
Human engineering prowess has long sought to protect people from the sorts of natural disasters that have struck the nation’s midsection over the last several weeks. Some survivors of these recent storms, however, see God’s hand–rather than successful building design … Continue reading
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Divine ADD
Haitian-Americans in a Catholic parish in Queens, NY, have been ecstatically praying since an earthquake wiped out an estimated quarter-million of their island countrymen 10 months ago, following which Hurricane Tomas unleashed cholera in the survivors’ tent camps: Certain women … Continue reading