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Capricology Week 5: Fathers, Funerals, and the Ethics of Gaming

By Henry Jenkins

…les before we play the game; we must figure them out as we go along. Yet, that does not mean that there are no rules—only that the rules get established in the context of the game and that some of the rules we follow outside the game no longer apply. Games, by definition, have rules, while play spaces do not necessarily have rules. Games can be won, while play spaces have no clearly defined goals and outcomes. Play spaces respond to our impulses,…

Famous Atheists, Fat Ministers, Papal Tweets, and a Mega-Hoax

By Michael J. Altman

…atican, and the World Evangelical Alliance have worked together to issue a code for how Christians ought to evangelize. No word on how this code effects the use of Chick Tracts. A village in the Philippines celebrates its patron saint, John the Baptist, with a Mud People Festival. Reminds me of my weekend at Bonnaroo 2004. The Pope tweeted—from an iPad, no less. It’s all part of the Vatican’s new multimedia news portal, news.va. Biblical criticism…

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Re: Creationist Tactics Pre-Dating the Exposure of ID as a Fraud

By Lauri Lebo

…at the critical analysis strategy was invented in the wake of Kitzmiller. What I wrote was that the proposed “critical analysis” and “academic freedom” legislation emerged after Dover; in other words, legislation after Kitzmiller now featured these code words prominently. Even West has to admit this is true, because the bills are based on sample legislation that the Discovery Institute wrote in 2008. West’s post opens with a few recollections of m…

Republicans Claim Shari’ah Law Threatens Constitution

By Sarah Posner

…mad said, is charity. But Gaffney et al. portray shari’ah as a fixed legal code that a fifth column of “adherents” seek to implement in place of the Constitution (somehow, they don’t explain how one Muslim in Congress or the less than one percent of the U.S. adult population that is Muslim would accomplish this). Gaffney told the audience for his talk, which was directed at Congressional staffers: [I]n fact we are looking at a mortal threat to the…

Spiritual Envy: Michael Krasny’s Agnostic Quest

By Lisa Webster

…e notion of the human being as an entity who waits. I mention in the book that that work had more influence on me than anything I’d read. A lot of the critics see it as a work about nothingness, because it’s Beckett—a great literary creator nevertheless identified as the Prince of Nothingness. Nothing happens in that play and yet things do happen. Pozzo goes blind and Lucky goes mute; but for Gogo and Didi, the two protagonists, things don’t chang…

Where Christianity and Islam Collide

By Maggie Fick

…al rule of law than the government does. [They] lay out a social and moral code that governs human interaction, and supplies a context for suffering and poverty, constructing a group identity through which followers can hope to secure their worldly needs, and find some certainty about the hereafter.” It follows that in such places, religion may be the only guiding principle, the only social, moral, even legal code to abide by. Somalia, for example…

Creationism: Don’t Use the “C-Word”

By Lauri Lebo

…members required science teachers to watch. But when board members wanted to pursue intelligent design, DI backed up, instead urging the watered-down “teach the controversy.” But just as in the case of Livingston, Dover board members correctly interpreted that code language like “intelligent design” and “teach the controversy” were merely other ways of saying “creationism.” And after the board members’ remarks about creationism became too widely…

Extra-Terrestrial Kitsch: Capricology #4

By Anthea Butler

…teriors. Packaging plays out as a theme throughout the episode. No one is what she seems to be. There’s a gleaming Cylon that is also a beautiful young girl, a gray-haired granny with the heart of a stone-cold killer, and a tattooed gangster who is more psychologically astute than his lawyer brother. And then there are the Graystones. I loved when Amanda stormed onto Baxter’s set as Fierce Mama. Blonde curls aquiver, she sought to protect the repu…

“Symbolic” Personhood Bill Could Kill

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ike in vitro fertilization—should not have the children they have. And if that’s not what they think, then how can they explain why they’re supporting this legislation? 4. I would like them to say these words, in public, to their constituents: “A fourteen-year-old girl who has been violently raped repeatedly by a relative should not have access to emergency contraception and should be required, by law, to carry that pregnancy to term.” And then I…

Hipsters v. Hasidim Over Brooklyn Bike Lane

By Nathan Schneider

…believe many cyclists to be inappropriately dressed, even while insisting that that alone was not reason enough to remove the lane. An ambulance driver said that there had been a lot of accidents with children, though he had never personally seen one. A man named Moshe, however, said he did once see a child hit by a bike. “It’s terrible,” he said. A yeshiva school bus driver complained, in an extended conversation aboard his bus, “bikes don’t obey…