Tag Archives: Religion

Measure of the Man

May 13, 2010 – 8:51 pm

Here’s a piece. about the utter vacuity of people who describe homosexuality as a choice. The following paragraph is as moving a thing as I’ve read this year: He shakes his head in sadness at the life his grandson has had to live. He says he fought alongside homosexuals in those battles, that they did [...]

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VP Pick

June 18, 2008 – 7:28 am

Some group I’ve never heard of is asking that the next Vice President be a ‘True Christian’, given that neither Presidential candidate counts, apparently. It brings up the old whine about marriage again, unsurprisingly: The group isn’t suggesting names but is citing criteria for a perfect candidate, including that it be someone who is against [...]

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Vox Day

February 20, 2008 – 8:58 pm

A religious friend shares a number of links through google reader which has greatly expanded my reading, if not my mind. One recent article is a book review of sorts for ‘The Irrational Atheist’ by Vox Day, a deeply unpleasant man. The article, unsurprisingly, is about as perceptive and well-reasoned as I would have guessed [...]

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Sharia

February 8, 2008 – 9:22 am

The Archbishop of Canterbury has stirred up a hornet’s nest by suggesting that there is a place for Sharia law in the UK. I’ve been impressed by how roundly his views have been rejected; politicians, religious groups, and people in the street are united in opposition, which is a level of agreement we rarely reach [...]

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Church Distribution

February 5, 2008 – 5:17 am

Here’s an image showing the distribution of the various (Christian) churches in the US by county. I hadn’t realized how dominant Baptists are in the South, but I guess the surprise for most people would be the dominance of the Catholic church. Many Minnesotans don’t realize that Lutherans aren’t the main religious group in the [...]

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