Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 8th, 2009
The governor of the Vatican visited CERN recently to reassure everyone that the Catholic Church “supports” “science.” In fact, according to his speech, the Church has always supported science. USA Today seems to have reproduced his quote, but for some reason they left out all of the footnotes, which I have carefully reconstructed below: “The [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 23rd, 2009
Over on FOXNews.com, Bill Shuler lists Ten Fallacies About Faith In America. Incredibly, I largely agree with the pastor: 1. “Separation of Church and State” means people of faith should mute their convictions in the public forum. Fallacy! It’s common sense that means people of faith should mute their convictions in the public forum. 2. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 28th, 2009
US News and World Report has put together a special feature on the “10 Most Important Obama Faith Moments.” Of course they picked stupid ones like “Having Rick Warren pray at the inauguration” and “Luring Tony Dungy away from football to join the Faith Advisory Council” and “Smearing holy dirt on Joe Biden’s forehead.” Bo-ring! [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 9th, 2009
Over the past year, I have encountered a number of “non-religious” types who were not only avid supporters of Barack Obama, but who also insisted that he was a “closet atheist”. Although all evidence points to the contrary, they offered a number of plausible reasons like I like him, so he’s got to be sitting [...]
