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Category Archives: Religion

Opposing birth control no political winner

Thursday, February 9, 2012

A few thoughts on the ginned up birth control controversy. First, Obama cannot win votes by caving, he can only lose them.  From what I understand, the pundits are convinced that this is a big deal, believing as they always do that the great unwashed are too stupid and unsophisticated to do anything but side […]

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Catholic Bishops running interference for Republicans

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

 This is must reading. The folks at Hullabaloo make a compelling case that all the moaning and groaning from the Catholic Bishops is just anti-Obama politics. The Catholics have been paying for birth control and even abortions in several states under similar insurance mandates for years. Somehow, they’ve found a way to mollify their tender […]

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Legislating science

Sunday, January 15, 2012

 Many years ago I read a book about some aspect of science, in which the author recounted a story about a mathematician who was trying to prove a certain mathematical proposition. The mathematician had a friend who was a state legislator, and the legislator, whether at the instance of the mathematician I cannot recall, introduced […]

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God works in mysterious ways

Sunday, January 15, 2012

 I’m not much of a football fan, but I gather that yesterday’s game proved that there is either no god, or that there is a god and he thinks the Bronco’s quarterback is an ostentatious prick.

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God starts the New Year

Monday, January 2, 2012

The Catholic Church, always looking out for the main chance, is recruiting bigoted Episcopalians to swell the ranks of the priesthood.    Meanwhile in Israel the Orthodox Jews are proving they have something in common with the Catholics here and Muslims almost anywhere. Like the Catholics here they believe that their religious freedoms are infringed […]

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Glass have empty, or glass half full?

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Sometimes it takes an act of bigotry to see how far we’ve come. A church in Kentucky took what its members no doubt thought was a perfectly reasonable racist action recently:  When Stella Harville brought her black boyfriend to her family’s all-white church in rural Kentucky, she thought nothing of it. She and Ticha Chikuni […]

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“Religious Liberty” redefined

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

John Lennon once opined that “Everything is the opposite of what it is, isn’t it?”. Personally, I hesitate to embrace this aphorism wholeheartedly, but it certainly appears to be the right wing point of view, where, in true Orwellian fashion, no dictionary is safe. Like Humpty Dumpty, they insist that words must do their bidding, […]

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Inconsistent with Christian values

Monday, August 22, 2011

The Republicans continue to test the limits of what they can get away with, if they only wrap it in Jesus. Here’s a guy who says he stopped going to strip clubs when it occurred to him that his hobby was inconsistent with his fundie Christian values. Apparently, at some point he must have considered […]

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Sunday thought for the Day

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Via Pharyngula

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Noted in passing

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

God appears to have changed his mind about Missouri.

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