Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
The nomination of Sarah Palin has brought the abortion issue front and center. She did so by putting her money where her mouth was: knowing she was going to have a handicapped child but choosing to carry it to term, anyway. We know that her family shares the same values: ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
When I was in college I made a nuisance of myself once by finding the slope of a vertical line (which, we are told, is 'undefined.') Impossible, you say. As did the math instructor. But I 'found' it by rotating the grid beneath the line and recalculated, for now, of ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
I was once asked to provide a concise, no more than 1,000 word essay, on why I believe Christianity to be true. I think the hint was that I can be a little too verbose. :) As I recall, this essay was well received, if only because it met the ...
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
I received a forwarded email that originally was sent by some media guy who lost his faith reporting on religion. In that email the following excerpt was provided, abbreviated already, and I abbreviated it more:
... Having been raised to believe in a just God, my faith was shaken when my ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
My new 'friend' Rational Man (not to be confused with Hyperbole Boy or the Stalker) has fired off a response to my response one or two blog entries ago. Here it is.
I have just a few points.
First of all, I loved the instant fixation on the fact that I am ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
I loved this wacky 'point by point' response to a blog entry I wrote like 8 months ago. One already knows that he's in for sarcastic inside jokes that miss the point when, in the first paragraph, the fellah says:
[Quoting Sntjohnny]I am reminded of the scene in Monty Python’s ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Has anyone else noticed this?
As a case in point- in part because atheists have accused me of 'inventing' atheistic positions- consider this entry on my blog and the comments that follow. But to be clear, I run across this phenomena all the time as I read and debate theism or ...
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