Category Archives: religion

the jolly old elf

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 December 29 by Anton

My contemporary Jim Henley (alternate archive) reminisces: Dammit, when I was a boy we had to work at atheism and agnosticism. We walked uphill in the snow – both ways! – to doubt the cogito! Nobody handed us disbelief on … Continue reading →

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Protestant music?

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 December 08 by Anton

One of my correspondents made a joke that could be read as implying that J S Bach (1685–1750) was a Protestant. Which got me to wondering: who was the earliest Protestant composer whose name I’d know? Henry Purcell (1659–95) comes … Continue reading →

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maybe it shoulda been called the Kallikak monkey trial

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 November 10 by Anton

Inherit the Wind somehow never mentioned that the evilutionist textbook used by John Scopes was racist and eugenist. Jim Lindgren, Volokh Conspirator, has the story.

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can you say it with a straight face?

Posted on Thursday, 2004 October 14 by Anton

Forensic theology. (Cited by Travis.) (Link updated 2006.)

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who stole whose concept?

Posted on Monday, 2004 October 04 by Anton

Atheism and Unalienable Rights by Robert E. Meyer (also cited today on RRND): Skeptics want to deny that rights come from God, but if they are correct, then there is no sound philosophical footings undergirding their perpetual claim to any … Continue reading →

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