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Archive for April, 2006

Blake

Posted: Tuesday, April 4th, 2006 @ 6:08 am in Agnostic, Belief, Children, Evolution, Parenting, Religion | 15 Comments »

A couple of weeks ago I was catching up on the HNN podcasts, listening to cartoonists discuss their take on the controversy behind the Mohammad cartoons. Blake overheard the discussion which prompted this surprising conversation:
Blake: In the Muslim Bible, does it say Jesus is God?
Me: The “Muslim Bible” is called the Quran [...]

Big Love

Posted: Sunday, April 2nd, 2006 @ 4:16 pm in Fundamentalism, Religion, Social | 16 Comments »

Is anyone watching HBO’s new series, Big Love? What a fascinating show. While I can’t handle the more violent shows myself, the truth is, anything HBO puts out is high quality. At least the shows we watch.
Big Love is about a modern polygamous family living in secret in a Salt Lake City [...]

Teachers Struggle To Teach Evolution

Posted: Saturday, April 1st, 2006 @ 6:06 pm in Education, Evolution, Religion, Science | 3 Comments »

There has been a lot of news recently on topics that affect us. I have been short on blogging time the last few days, so I am posting a small amount of information regarding a couple of the articles (this post and the previous post). I am giving all you readers the go-ahead [...]

The Bible To Be Taught In School

Posted: Saturday, April 1st, 2006 @ 6:05 pm in Fundamentalism, News, Religion, Secular | 18 Comments »

Georgia just passed legislation worth looking at. Here is a very short article that Hifi provided on the new allowance of high schools to provide educational courses on the Bible.
I have to wonder what kind of outcome this will have. Often non-religiously led biblical studies actually de-convert the religious and I heard some [...]