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If it was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for Abu Zubaydah

Friday, May 1, 2009

From CNN: The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new survey. At first blush it seems odd. These folks worship a man who was tortured and executed because he was a suspected terrorist, or at the very least an enemy […]

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Sunday Sermon-Jesus’ strange choices

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Via Pharyngula (where else?)

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An Easter Homily

Saturday, April 11, 2009

I have to finish my blogging early today to leave time for one of my two annual Easter traditions. I will be viewing the Life of Brian tonight, and I’ll listen to The Messiah (What can I say, it’s beautiful music) at some point before the weekend ends. Before I commence watching the heretical movie, […]

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History Lesson

Friday, April 10, 2009

Apparently the Fox folks and other right wingers are attacking Obama for saying that America is not a Christian nation. I think I’ve mentioned this before, but it’s worth repeating. Here is Article 11 of the 1796 Treaty of Peace and Friendship with Tripoli, negotiated by Connecticut’s own, and too much neglected Joel Barlow: As […]

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Indulge Me

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

I mentioned a few days ago that Mr. Infallible (that’s the Pope, for you non-believers) has been playing to his base by rehabilitating Nazi loving clerics, among other things. Well now we learn that he’s bringing back some old traditions, namely, Indulgences. I can still remember trolling through my Missal during Mass, looking at the […]

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First as tragedy, then as farce

Saturday, February 7, 2009

In 1633 the Catholic Church put Galileo Galilei on trial for heresy, for the crime of believing that the earth moved around the sun. Somehow, it had become an article of faith to believe that the earth stood still in the heavens, while the sun and the stars swirled around it. Legend has it that […]

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Connecticut Slipping?

Sunday, February 1, 2009

This being Sunday, Super or not, it’s an appropriate day to try to offend some religious sensibilities, but I’m sorry to say that in the process I must take my home state to task. I reported back in June that Connecticut was NUMBER THREE!, trailing only Vermont and New Hampshire, in the degree to which […]

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Pope Benedict embraces a holocaust denier

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Having long since joined the ranks of the non-believers, I have no personal stake in any particular religious faith, but I must confess that, having had Catholicism pounded in to me at an early age, I still feel a bit of a preference for the old faith. Perhaps the way I feel is a bit […]

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Taking the pledge

Monday, December 29, 2008

Put this in the “Nobody Could Have Predicted” File: Teenagers who pledge to remain virgins until marriage are just as likely to have premarital sex as those who do not promise abstinence and are significantly less likely to use condoms and other forms of birth control when they do, according to a study released today. […]

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Comments and Spam

Monday, December 29, 2008

I get only a few legitimate comments a week, but I’m fairly inundated with spam. Most of it gets caught by a fairly efficient spam catching plug in, but the rest filters through for me to “moderate”, meaning I have to pre-approve it before it actually gets published. In fact, I have to approve every […]

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