Tête-à-Tête-Tête

As promised, here I am, back again this Monday. I’m afraid this will mostly be all about me, and my weekend, and I honestly can’t blame you if you don’t care. I mainly only care about my own. I will say, before I insist my feelings won’t be hurt if you navigate away to [...]

Ed M. at Captain’s Quarters uses the personal relationship between Larry Flynt and Jerry Falwell as a jumping off point for a brief note about seeing the humanity in your political enemies and behaving in a manner consistent with that practice.
A brief note: I added Captain’s Quarters to my RSS feeds just so I [...]

10 Things Your Minister Wants To Tell You (But Can’t Because He Needs the Job) for the “steeple dropouts” who grew up on organized religion, as well as for the millions of Americans who, each Sunday, recite ancient creeds about virgin births and bodily resurrections, all the while feeling just a tad unconvinced.
Rev. Oliver [...]

The news reports say Falwell had heart problems. They were right in more ways than one. But Jerry was a human being, due love, dignity and respect on that account if no other. Certainly his family is due our sympathy, not our scorn. Peace, JF, and peace to his family. I’ll [...]

Dan Harper briefly addresses what I think is among the more pivotal points about religion in the context of debate about its value, here… namely, that religion doesn’t necessarily mean “belief” (about God, the supernatural, etc… or about objective reality at all, per se).
In fact, I think that one of the tasks religion is most [...]

Mike Huckabee get’s one wrong… might be thought of as a biggie (via Atrios). Of course, the clueless, godless liberals defend him, and also get it wrong. The Golden Rule is none of the “commandments” - not even the “Second Greatest”. It’s a pretty good one, though, as is the “Second Greatest”.
This screw-up [...]

This teapot sized tempest got me thinking. I think it really does all depend on what qualifies as “real”, “knowledge”, blah blah blah. Take this simple test, and then spend the rest of the day wondering why you did:
1. a) Do you agree that the Mona Lisa is good art?
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That’s a step up from dogcatcher, a job for which non-theists ordinarily need-not-apply. I guess we’re coming up in the world - though I’m not sure he was “out” when elected. Let’s see how his next re-election bid goes.
Maybe atheist purists will take a beef with his non-identification as “atheist”. Maybe if [...]

I have a lot of it. Go Vols, you know. But Senator Finney really isn’t a source of it.
I hope the BoE gives him the smack-down he deserves.

They Found Jesus’ Bones, and his family’s, including his kid’s.
Let’s go back 27 years, when Israeli construction workers were gouging out the foundations for a new building in the industrial park in the Talpiyot, a Jerusalem suburb. of Jerusalem. The earth gave way, revealing a 2,000 year old cave with 10 stone caskets. [...]