The next few days will include a series of posts inspired by one of Sid’s tweets. He said that “The Bible is anti-human sexuality outside a very narrowly prescribed range.” My own post will come last. Today’s post is brought to us by Rich Bordner from The Pugnacious Irishman. Show him some love! Ever since [...]

After hearing someone on NPR say that everyone they know is good, I tweeted the following question, “Would you say “Everyone I know is good.”? Why or why not?”. To which I had some replies: Odin1Eye – no.. good is subjective. I know many people that I don’t consider good. Selfish, spiteful, mean spirited, lazy [...]

I was listening to NPR (as is my habit of a morning) and happened to hear this little news piece. The jist of it is that there is a “schism” between the old guard atheists and the new ones (not that there is anything particularly new or old about either). Basically on the one hand [...]

Thanks to my good friend Shawn and his lovely wife Jess I got to see Richard Dawkins last night. When he asked me if I wanted to go, I jumped at the chance. After all the man is practically a rock star in his community. I even referred to this commercial for Intel: I wonder [...]

I was sent a link to the Conservative Bible Project – Conservapedia by a friend last night and then Sid tweeted about it this morning. It is an effort by political conservatives to correct what they view as errors in translation due to bias in “converting the original language to the modern one” by “retranslating [...]

There seems to be a trend on the rise in America. If you don’t like something or you disagree with it then you paint it as evil. I know that this is certainly nothing new. It just strikes me as being more pervasive now than at any other time in my life. For instance, if [...]

This is a topic that interests me quite a bit and something I strive to be aware of on multiple levels. Born out of my home school post, I decided to make inquiries in my Twitter stream and asked three questions. For non-religious: If you had a 8-10 yo child and they expressed an interest [...]

Okay, so strictly speaking biologically I am, I can’t argue that point. For some reason the Naturalists’ notion that we’re all just a bunch of highly evolved ape-like creatures and no different than any other member of our Kingdom strikes those of us in religious circles as offensive. Oh, well I mean I understand why [...]

So most of you know that my wife and I home school our kids (which is a bit like saying my wife and I were pregnant three times, I was involved in both, but she does/did most of the work). Well color me surprised (a sort of pinky-purple) when I discovered that I really haven’t [...]

One thing I’ve noticed about human nature is that the more convinced one is of one’s correctness, the more strident one typically becomes. This seems particularly true when it comes to people on the extreme ends of the political and religious spectrum, though it’s not limited to those topics. I recognize that this level of [...]