Archive for the ‘Religion’ Category
Female bishops
Saturday, July 5th, 2008From ifeminists.net I saw a link to this column advocating the ordainment of female bishops in the Church of England and, in principle, the Roman Catholic Church too. Well, I don't know, I think allowing women to become bishops won't help them move forward, only diagonally.
Child faces prosecution for calling the Cult of Scientology a cult
Saturday, May 24th, 2008Jacob Sullum reports at Reason's Hit and Run that a British teenager has been summoned to court and faces a fine (and, presumably, a mark on his criminal record) for holding a sign outside of the Cult of Scientology London headquarters with the word "cult" on it. I don't understand ...
On escaping from cults
Monday, April 21st, 2008I guess I'm just a total and complete liar. This is my fourth consecutive post relating to the raid and kidnapping at the Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints ranch in Eldorado, Texas. I seriously, honestly did not expect to make more than one post in the near future about the events, and ...
Statolatry on the radio
Monday, April 21st, 2008A quibble I have with women, by and large, as regards their moral-political thought processes is that they are too hesitant to take a definitive side, to make a polarizing statement, to pronounce a strong (negative) judgment of people, ideas, or institutions. I made sure to say "by and large" ...
More rational thoughts on FLDS kidnapping
Sunday, April 20th, 2008I have decided I am an inadequate blagger. This is because I don't have enough time for writing and can't focus and materialize my thoughts into excellent blag posts, unless I take a lot of time for it. So I just link to other, (semi)professional writers who do it much ...
Insightful thoughts on the Eldorado polygamy compound raid
Saturday, April 19th, 2008I felt the need to chime in about the potential rights and certain wrongs of the raid by Texas police of the Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints polygamist ranch in Eldorado, but I think Wendy McElroy expressed thoughts very similar to my own much better than I could have. If I have ...
The Dukes of Hazzard as Christ figures
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008I can't believe I've just now gotten around to checking out Roderick T. Long's blag, Austro-Athenian Empire. It is quite insightful and entertaining. I first heard of Dr. Long, I think, from his essay about the anarchic Icelandic Free State at LRC. Don't miss the suggested readings he lists at ...
Vox Day on non-aggression and religion
Saturday, January 26th, 2008Vox Day found a blag post about him that was quite funny. It is from a German guy who calls himself atheist and libertarian (I don't know if he would fit my and Kelly's rather narrow definition of libertarian) who wrote: This morning, I stumbled upon a very popular blog (judging ...
Evil and stupid
Thursday, January 24th, 2008That's how Laurence Vance describes mainstream Protestantism in general. As understanding, tolerant, and diplomatic as I try to be in public, I'd have to agree. Like Wes Baker, I too am sickened and embarrassed at Christian opposition to Ron Paul. The Protestant church is not only no friend of freedom, it ...
A new low for Randall Munroe
Monday, January 21st, 2008I thought today's xkcd comic was uncharacteristically smug and laaaaaame. I mean, is it about religion? Or people who think they're prophets? Or magicians like David Blaine or something? I took it as the first one. I'm not even religious. I don't believe in a religion. But I found it completely ...
Ryan McMaken is a natural selection “skeptic”
Sunday, January 13th, 2008So that's what fundamentalist Catholic nutjobs are calling themselves these days. Crazy kids. Notice how he tries to preemptively deflect such "vilification" from himself, even though it happens to apply to him perfectly, though admittedly not to other skeptics such as Fred Reed. He concludes: Beyond labeling everything they disagree ...
Circular reasoning
Saturday, January 12th, 2008Unfortunately for them, Creationists must rely on nothing but disputations of (supposedly) unconvincing science and circular reasoning to argue their points. While the former certainly can have its value, the embarrassing multitude and speciousness of their circular arguments renders the rest of their statements less credible. A recent commenter at Vox ...
China says, “Merry Christmas,” Google won’t
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007I try not to get all up in arms about the "liberal war on Christmas" and all the other PC things that Christian conservatives complain about, not because they aren't harmful or threatening or worthy of denunciation, but because the Christian/neocon right themselves are currently a large part of the ...