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New Book: God Favors Supply-Side Economics

…faithlessness; and yes, there is arguably a lesson about the dangers of temporal authority. But Hovind sees this passage as a quite literal message about low taxes and small government. You won’t find any mention of camels and needles in Godonomics, nor any substantive reference to Jesus’s love for the despised and the downtrodden. Hovind, in fact, takes a dim view of the poor. Although he acknowledges that “poverty is caused by a myriad of extern…

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How Would Religion Respond to Extraterrestrials? A Thought Experiment

…blance to the fiction above. But, religion aside, the possibility of confirming alien life is less remote than you might think. On May 21, 2014, Dan Werthimer, scientific director of SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Life) at UC Berkeley testified before the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology that “the universe is likely to be teeming with primitive life,” something substantiated by NASA’s announcement on September 28 that Mars h…

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Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

…Let’s pray that stands.) When Saddam Hussein was our ally, he unleashed chemical weapons on Kurds at Halabja, the only confirmed instance of a Muslim regime using chemical weapons. Even considering the possibility of Assad’s use of chemical weapons in his brutal war against his own people—supported by supposedly ‘Islamic’ actors, such as Iran and Hezbollah—still, nothing was invented. A Muslim world that lacks in groundbreaking scientific research…

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Republican Scandals Drag Secretive ‘Family’ Into the Big Time

…nd even up to 50-year-olds, but that may be stretching it a bit) these polemical tirades about gay marriage and the like are wearing and repetitive, when more pressing issues like economic injustice, the environment, and right to life issues for everyone (not just an embryo) are stark. What does irritate me, though, is the perception that evangelical means white. There are evangelicals of color who never fit into this old, white male bastion of bl…

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The Silly Calls for Congress to Investigate Planned Parenthood

…s. Indeed, maybe for those reasons it hardly matters. But say you’re noncommittal, and yet for some reason you find yourself reading the 31-page document with an appendix many times that lengthy. What would you conclude? Well, I’m not noncommittal, so I can only speculate. My hunch, my guess, is that you’d think: Oh. Um. Why do they think this is a job for Congress? Because that’s what the report is intended to do: make the case for a thorough con…

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

…tc. I hope these pages don’t keep updating themselves after our deaths and mimic our personalities 🙂 But just in case, here is Deathswitch, to avoid floating virtual presence with leftover passwords everywhere. Here is the description: Imagine that you die with computer passwords in your head, leaving coworkers without access to critical files. Imagine your loved ones cannot find your bank accounts, or that you die with a secret that you longed to…

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How (Not) to Understand What Mormons Believe

…tual power and meaning. An expansive cosmology, a radical take on the eternal potential of the human soul, a literal view of the gathering of the tribes and other last days phenomena—these have all been part of the Mormon worldview. During the middle decades of the twentieth century, LDS Church leaders attempted to discipline and systematize Mormon doctrine through a process known as “correlation” that gave contemporary Mormonism most of its curri…

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Packed with Threats of Political Violence, Media Largely Ignore the NAR’s ‘Million Women’ Rally in DC

…iolence that marks NAR events, such as those on The Courage Tour tent revivals slash voter mobilization events organized by Lance Wallnau and evangelist Mario Murillo. Every day, internet prophets are describing dreams of churches under attack, Christians rising up, and the start of World War III, acclimating followers to the prospect of real-world violence. And this is what awaits people under the tent: leaders waging an intentional effort to mov…

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The Text-Message Fast

…atever tools work to disseminate their message. They are trying to be a place for online spiritual seekers. By suggesting that young adults should cut their lines to technology during the Lenten season might also be cutting some young adults off from the place where they seek their faith – their church. And that is not something you want to do during this season of reflection….

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Pornographic War Gazing: Why We Don’t Look Away

…t is out of Christ, now awake and fly from the wrath to come. The wrath of Almighty God is now undoubtedly hanging over a great part of this congregation. Let every one fly out of Sodom: ‘Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed.’” One need not be a literalist, as Edwards was, to appropriate the sentiment in this closing line for life today. It is not the wrath of God we need fear, but our…

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