Archive for the 'Fundamentalism' Category
Posted: Wednesday, December 6th, 2006 @ 7:25 pm in Atheist, Belief, Fundamentalism, Religion, Science | 8 Comments »
Two points of business.
Number one is to answer a question from MomSquared: I am curious whether the name Trinity is religious in origin or not?
The origin of Trinity’s name happens to be the movie, The Matrix. That’s it. We were Mormons when we chose that name and Mormons reject the concept of the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 28th, 2006 @ 6:34 am in Civil Rights, Fundamentalism, News, Religion | 21 Comments »
Afghanistan made a decision this weekend not to condemn a man to death for converting to Christianity. If you haven’t heard the story, click here.
The government succombed to intense pressure from westerners to free Abdul Rahman in spite of angry demands from Muslim clerics and citizens to execute him. For the Afghan government, [...]
Posted: Friday, February 3rd, 2006 @ 8:34 am in Fundamentalism, News | 2 Comments »
My Pat Robertson Radar has been on. Pat is in the news today, this time applying the repentance concept. Of course, it required a major consequence to compel yesterday’s apology. And those of us who heard about that recent consequence (which I will describe momentarily) were expecting one to come soon.
Here is [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 25th, 2006 @ 10:21 pm in Family, Fundamentalism, History, Parenting, Religion | 8 Comments »
Linda Rogers is a pleasant-looking woman. Linda Rogers is sixty-five, single, and divorced. Linda Rogers is coming to a conference center near you in order to convince women in your town to return to Victorian-style spousal submission.
According to an article in the Spiritual Life section of my local paper, The East [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 19th, 2006 @ 10:16 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Belief, Books, Charity, Children, Civil Rights, Education, Ethics, Family, Fundamentalism, Holidays, Morals, Parenting, Religion, Secular, Spiritual | 9 Comments »
After reading the books I cited for Civil Rights Day to the kids, my 8-year-old son, Blake asked, “How come all the heroes are black?”
Silence filled the space that my loss for words left. I stared at Blake for a minute. What other heroes have I introduced to him? Rosa Parks died [...]
Posted: Saturday, January 7th, 2006 @ 4:40 pm in Education, Fundamentalism, Intelligent Design, Rants, Religion | 4 Comments »
I’ve been learning about Phillip E. Johnson, one of the founders of the Intelligent Design Creationist movement, and now I know it’s a lot more dire than I realized. My argument has been that people are accepting the idea of ID, and requesting that it be taught alongside Evolution, because they do not [...]
Posted: Friday, January 6th, 2006 @ 12:37 pm in Belief, Community, Education, Fundamentalism, Rants, Religion, Science, Social | 6 Comments »
Pat Robertson is spewing radical god-speak again. This time he’s leveled his judgments against a man suffering on his deathbed, Israeli Prime Minsister, Ariel Sharon. As usual, Pat thinks he speaks for God when he blames Sharon’s stroke on the decision to “divide God’s land.” Pat referred to the Bible, saying it [...]
Posted: Tuesday, December 20th, 2005 @ 12:20 pm in Education, Evolution, Fundamentalism, Intelligent Design, News, Religion, Science, Secular | No Comments »
Victory today for Reason, Logic, Science, Education, our Children, and our Future! The breaking news of the day is that U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III ruled that Intelligent Design cannot be mentioned in biology classes in public schools.
He even said members of the school board lied to hide their religious [...]