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2006-01
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Book of Daniel.
2006-01-09.
We taped The Book of Daniel and watched it over the weekend. We willfully and maliciously fast-forwarded through the commercials while we laughed ourselves silly in defiance of Big Media. Sorry, I digress.
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News Flash: Dark Ages Didn’t Happen.
2006-01-09.
I’m just trying to kill time here, so I don’t really feel like looking up hard evidence to support my claim, but the article Christianity credited for West’s success, which discusses the book The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism and Western Success by “leading” U.S. sociologist Rodney Stark, sounds like.. what’s the word I’m looking for… total crap. (By the way, I didn’t know there was a sociologist race going on… I wonder if it’s on ESPN?)
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Muslim Sit-Com Coming Soon!.
2006-01-18.
I was having a really hard time finding anything to snipe at today. My usual targets were silent or monumentally dull. I even added tons of new feeds to my aggregator, specifically looking for radical thinking from every possible angle.
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Solving Catholicism.
2006-01-21.
[Originally posted January 3, 2006.]
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On The AFA.
2006-01-23.
The AFA makes me sick. They have an electronic petition to send emails to NBC about The Book of Daniel. They’ve done all the work, so all you have to do is click a button and bam-o NBC gets a nicely worded email written by the AFA, and they can claim billions of people oppose the show.
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An Open Letter to AFA Chairman Donald E. Wildmon.
2006-01-25.
To: Donald E. Wildmon Chairman, American Family Association
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AFA Response.
2006-01-25.
Just for the record, here was the AFA’s response, if you can call it that, to my letter. Note the smug “ohhhh, we’re innocent, we had nothing to do with it!” attitude and link.
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NBC Webcasts Book of Daniel.
2006-01-27.
NBC will be webcasting an unaired episode of The Book of Daniel tonight at 8PM. Please join me in sending kudos to NBC for continuing to make this novel program about faith and family available to both audiences who value creative story-telling in an otherwise dreary television landscape, and to Americans who enjoy the freedom to choose their viewing habits without interference from strong-armed lobbyist organizations.
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Sorry, Ranting About Daniel Again.
2006-01-27.
I would like to take this opportunity to rebuke entertainment journalists worldwide. I am referring, of course, to the somewhat dated news that NBC has cancelled The Book of Daniel. Another slew of articles appeared in my news reader on the subject today, and each was predictable down to the letter, being nearly word-for-word copies of the original news story from earlier this week.
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2006-02
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Christianists.
2006-02-01.
I came across the article, Onward, Christianist soldiers?, by Ruth Walker of the Christian Science Monitor today, after I saw a reference to the word “Christianist” on a liberal blog. It’s a good read. The term is very appropriate, too.
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Grrls Rock!.
2006-02-03.
[Originally drafted January 9, 2006.]
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The Church’s Shaky Foundation.
2006-02-04.
[This is a complete rewrite of something I first wrote on January 11, 2006.]
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Coming Soon: DaVinci Riots.
2006-02-23.
I’m stupefied by the irony and ignorance found in Barbara Nicolosi’s Da Vinci Code ‘Dialogue’? No Way! The thinking process that goes into concluding that the people who made The DaVinci Code “hate Jesus” and “wanted to bash Christians” is exactly the same thinking process that goes into concluding that a handful of Danish cartoonists insulted Islam and should literally be killed for blasphemy.
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2006-03
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Unified Christian Theory.
2006-03-13.
It’s rather annoying to me when people mis-characterize the different denominations of Christians and Christianity. It frequently happens when people mistakenly assume all Christians are part of Pat Robertson’s army of zombies. But it can also happen in other ways.
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AFA Marching Again.
2006-03-15.
It’s always fun to rag on the Totalitarian Family Association: US anti-gay group launches boycott of Ford. Don Wildmon, raging American patriot, is inciting his flock to stone… I mean… boycott Ford Motor Co. I first encountered him back in January when he took credit for denying Americans the freedom to watch whatever shows they want on their own televisions. Now he’s trying to deny Americans the opportunity to help Ford claw its way back into the global automobile market.
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PZ Myers On Easter And Drywall.
2006-03-24.
I find that PZ Myers at Pharyngula generates a mixed bag of reactions from me. On one hand, I find his thoughts on evolution pretty solid and interesting. On the other hand, I find his thoughts on religion pretty childish and annoying: War on Easter!
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Evangelicals On The March Again.
2006-03-28.
They’re at it again… GOP Blogger Mark Noonan thinks that Fundamentalist Evangelicals represent all of Christianity: “Tolerant” San Francisco. Once again, Fundamentalist Evangelical Salesmen are rolled out as the essense of Christianity, the all-knowing, all-seeing Truth of Jesus, not to be questioned, not to be argued with. Forget those loser Episcopalians, Catholics, Presbytarians, Methodists, Mormons, and Mennonites… if you want the Christian perspective on anything, just go to the loudest Evangelicals you can find.
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2006-04
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Only Two Doors?.
2006-04-03.
Here’s another one of those Pharyngula posts of the annoying variety: Doors. PZ’s making the slightly ignorant assumption that there are only 2 “doors” to choose from in life. (Ie.
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The Nerfed Palm Sunday.
2006-04-10.
Yesterday I went back to church for the first time this year. I stopped last year for a variety of reasons, most selfishly because I rather liked having Sunday morning to myself. But I digress.
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2006-05
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God\’s Get Out Of Jail Free Card.
2006-05-03.
Here’s my theological thought for the day: In response to bad news, some people will say things like “don’t worry, God has a plan for you” or “oh well, it’s all part of God’s plan” or “it’s what God wants.” This sort of philosophy tends to come from a certain prominent persuasion of American Protestants which shall remain nameless.
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Blogging Back: Death And Delegation.
2006-05-10.
I’m not popular enough to get many comments (sniff), but even if I were I wouldn’t spend much time responding to them, because I figure blog comments should be the territory of the readers. If I find noteworthy comments, though, I’m going to start blogging about them (or maybe that should be blogging back at them), so in that spirit here are some responses to Vince:
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2006-06
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The New Boss.
2006-06-19.
The Episcopal Church elected a new Presiding Bishop Sunday. Oh yeah, and she’s a woman. This is perceived as a bold move by American Anglicans.
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Repeal The Stamp Act!.
2006-06-21.
It would appear that the majority of people in the ECUSA (U.S. Episcopal Church), like our forefathers of the American Revolution defying the Stamp Act of 1765, prefer to thumb their noses at Mother England and the Windsor Report. Maybe that’s a slight over-dramatization of it, but it certainly doesn’t look like there’s much enthusiasm in the General Convention for apologizing about the consecration of Gene Robinson or the blessing of same-sex marriages, let alone reversing those actions. So I guess that means a schism of some sort is inevitable.
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Stamp Act Repeal, Part II.
2006-06-22.
I blogged too soon about the ECUSA – the General Convention, at the last minute, caved in to Mother England. In response to the Windsor Report, the House of Bishops voted to “exercise restraint” in electing bishops “whose manner of life presents a challenge” to the Anglican Communion. While not technically a ban on electing gay bishops, it could be interpreted that way, because it would now take a super amazing gay priest to justify wading through all this political fallout again.
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2006-07
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Alternate View On Dwindling Church Attendance.
2006-07-10.
I’ve always found it annoying when people disparage religion as if it were a hopelessly outdated fad (“that’s soooo 1950s”). Lately I find it even more annoying when conservatives disparage the Episcopal Church. It reminds me of high school cliques – Catholic writers refer to the Episcopal Church the same way that football jocks refer to the chess club.
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The Moral Authority Of The Bible.
2006-07-22.
A Virginia “Weekend Without Echoes” post by Thomas Krehbiel
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2006-11
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On Free Will.
2006-11-29.
Scott Adams (the Dilbert guy) has a thing about free will. He visits the topic often on his blog, and this post of his is supposed to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that free will does not exist.
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2007-01
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CAIR Tries To Pull An AFA Trick.
2007-01-19.
I agree with Squeaky Wheel’s thoughts about CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim lobbyist group with suspected ties to terrorism) being upset about the new season of 24: Islamic PC Police Attack ‘24’ While Continuing To Ignore The Cause and Focus On The Symptoms. CAIR should get over it. Offended Muslims should watch something else.
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2007-02
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Times-Dispatch Discusses Virginia Diocese Split.
2007-02-02.
Mrs. Krehbiel pointed me to these two Richmond Times-Dispatch articles with opposing viewpoints on the recent Episcopal Church split here in Virginia: . . .
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2007-03
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The Chocolate Jesus.
2007-03-30.
I hope all the people who keep saying that Muslims are the only ones who freak out when people offend their religion are taking note of incidents like this. Oh, but there weren’t any riots, burnings, or killings, people will say. The end result is the same, though: Intimidation of minorities and stifling free thought.
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2007-05
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Already?.
2007-05-15.
An important and influential figure in society dies, and the defensive battle lines are drawn mere minutes after the news: “It will be interesting to see how the left and the MSM will treat this.”
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Avoid People Powered Machines.
2007-05-16.
A quick consumer report: Mrs. Krehbiel and I are so mad at a company called People Powered Machines right now that we can’t even enjoy today’s death of Jerry Falwell.* We bought a reel mower from these people just to try one out, but it didn’t work on our yard, so we sent it back, and they charged us some kind of restocking fee in addition to all the shipping costs. So it cost us some $60+ to try to be more environmentally friendly. What a total rip-off.
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Falwell’s Legacy.
2007-05-16.
To clarify my previous comments on Jerry Falwell: I’ll give him credit for being a great businessman, a great politician, and a great propagandist, but I will give him no credit whatsoever as a moral authority or Christian ambassador. I think he and Pat Robertson and James Dobson and Don Wildmon and all their ilk, like the Roman emperors of old, have hijacked Christianity in a quest for money and power and influence, and in the process sullied the reputation of all well-meaning Christians around the world. The saddest part about Falwell’s death for me is that his empire probably won’t be diminished one bit.
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Coulter and Falwell BFF.
2007-05-17.
Hey, Ann Coulter stood up for Jerry Falwell.
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2007-06
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Easy As Pi To Refute.
2007-06-21.
Here’s something I’ve never seen before: I saw a link on Waldo’s blog to a post showing that the Bible says Pi is 3.0.
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2008-04
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Presentism.
2008-04-20.
Greg Krehbiel wondered: Is the past real? That’s something I’ve pondered from time to time myself. I’m certainly not an expert on this subject and have read very little about it, but it seems that an argument could be made that only “now” exists.
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2008-07
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NanoPost: Lambeth.
2008-07-23.
With the upcoming 2008 Lambeth Conference, I’ve seen some reports lamenting the imminent demise of the ECUSA. It makes me wonder: Why exactly do we need these childishly squabbling human bureaucracies to have a relationship with God anyway?
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2012-01
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Idle Thoughts On Reincarnation.
2012-01-31.
I overheard some people talking about reincarnation today, so I thought I’d write down what I thought about it. Mainly because I’m trying to write 1,500 new words every day as part of my grandiose plan to take over the world, and I figure blog posts should count as part of that, right?
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