Happy New Year! Sorry for my lack of posts over the holidays. I indulged in friends and family to the max this holiday season, which was nice for a change. Previous Christmas breaks have been spent working, but I was fortunate enough to get the whole week off this year between Christmas and New Years. […]
Article discussed in this entry: The Celestial Teapot James Wood provides an excellent critique of the current crop of atheistic writers currently clogging the best seller lists. Wood hits the target with his philosophical dismissals of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris (referred to collectively as DDH). Far from being a solid defense of […]
The National has a series called “Seven”, which documents Mark Kelley’s experiences in a “week in the life of” sort of format. Yesterday’s Seven broadcast highlighted Mark’s time spent with evangelical Christians. You can view yesterday’s broadcast at CBC.ca: http://www.cbc.ca/news/media/seven.html I wasn’t pleased with the way the show portrayed evangelical Christianity. So… I wrote to […]
You’ve gotta be kidding me… I read a commentary piece from David Warren the other day, in which Warren tried to explain the “right way” of winning in Iraq. Warren likened the war in Iraq to fighting the Nazis in WWII. I’m confused that people still think that this is a simple fight delineated on […]
I know, I know… the DaVinci Code has been out for a while now. But, I recently re-read the book and feel the need to comment on it, just for the record. So, here goes… Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code offers some interesting speculations and fictions, mixed in amongst a smattering of facts to make […]
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