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Expel Intelligent Design!

  • Posted by Nacho
  • December 17, 2007

If you are looking for a good laugh... oh, well perhaps I better use Kenneth Burke's wonderful phrase "dancing with tears in my eyes," check out Ben Stein's website and trailer for his paean to Intelligent Design: Expelled! No Intelligence Allowed. The movie will no doubt produce more converts to t ...>

Romney’s Faith in America Speech

  • Posted by Nacho
  • December 10, 2007

The much ballyhooed speech has been delivered and no doubt pundits are feverishly at it. In the meantime, Romney is exulting in a false sense that somehow he is a statesman for having delivered a "history lesson" about religious tolerance and "liberty" to the nation. Unfortunately, Romney is nei ...>

Papal Encyclical Attacks Atheism

  • Posted by Nacho
  • December 1, 2007

Yikes! Somebody do an intervention! Pope Benedict is certainly smoking too much of the Church Incense. In his latest Papal Encyclical, Pope Benedict takes on atheism, except, he conflates it with Marxism, and relies on the same old and poorly conceived attacks on atheism as inherently immoral and d ...>

Taking the Bible Literally

  • Posted by Nacho
  • November 10, 2007

The Washington Post has a story of a man who decided to follow the Bible literally for one year. Yep. No kidding. An interesting exercise most definitely, and one likely to generate plenty of provocative insight. But... The Washington Post did an awful job with the reporting. It is short in length, ...>

Georgia plans service to pray for rain - Boston.com

  • Posted by Nacho
  • November 9, 2007

Well, we are coming into the season of War on Xmas, and excesses of Political Piety, so look here for how Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue has decided to deal with the bad drought afflicting the state: Georgia Plans Service to Pray for Rain. Apparently, the weather forecast calls for rain. Now, if you ...>

Do You Pray for our Troops?

  • Posted by Nacho
  • October 7, 2007

With all due respect for those of you who are religious believers... this question posed to Rep. Nancy Pelosi strikes me as not just a set-up, but simply misguided as a matter of religion/theology. This kind of political piety has gotten out of control, and Mr. Wallace is not being a journalist so m ...>

Imprecatory Prayer! Go Figure.

  • Posted by Nacho
  • August 19, 2007

Why this person is not arrested and interviewed by the police I don't know, but his actions clearly do not comment us to our better angels, and do not speak well of his religiosity, religion, and state of mind. Here's Rev. Wiley S. Drake, Pastor of the Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, CA, and ...>

Spiritual Ninja Camp?

  • Posted by Nacho
  • August 18, 2007

Does anybody find this as disturbing as I do? "There's to be no trash in the cabins whatsoever!" Phillips shouted, his voice ragged from a week as drill sergeant at Spiritual Warfare Camp. "And no trash in your hearts. Do you have the message? "Yes, sergeant major," the girls answered in chorus, t ...>

Lack of Moral Imagination & Softness of Head

  • Posted by Nacho
  • July 26, 2007

I started this entry before I went out of town a couple of weeks ago (July 13) and now feel it is a bit late, but anyway here it goes: Michael Gerson writes in The Washington Post (What Atheists Can't Answer) a particularly silly argument about morality, religion, and atheism. That such an argumen ...>

Prophetic Bush

  • Posted by Nacho
  • July 20, 2007

If you've read this blog just a little you know how I feel about this purported statement by President Bush. It is downright scary, and reveals the most troublesome aspect of religion. I know that many would say that this is "religion gone bad." That this interpretation of God calling the President ...>

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