Category Archives: religion

they’ll buy up all your rights and all your wrongs

Looking for the words to one of my all-time favorite songs, I am amused to find most of it at the bottom of this page: “The Discipleship of Marriage, Part 3 – ChristianSinglesDating.com Article”. The opening/closing stanza is omitted, presumably … Continue reading

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it’s kosherin’ time!

Yeah, okay, I guess it’s not hard to picture Ben Grimm with a yarmulke. (By way of Meryl Yourish by way of Gary Farber)

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the official cult

I applaud the Ninth Circuit for recognizing that teaching schoolchildren to recite “one nation under God” is an establishment of religion; though without the offending phrase the tots are still being taught that their first duty is to “the republic … Continue reading

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missing energy

Got a spam (three or four times now) from a Christian kook. In the middle of the prophecies about nuclear war and the biochip of the beast is a paragraph about Creation, including: THE LATEST RESEARCH IN MOLECULAR PHYSICS HAS … Continue reading

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to keep and bear lightning

David Kopel: Does God Believe in Gun Control?

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matchmaking in India

Wow . . this Indian matchmaking site starts with a bewildering menu of religions: Buddhist, Christian (10 flavors), Hindu (132 flavors), Jain, Jewish, Muslim (7 flavors), Sikh (7 flavors), No Religion, Other. 132 kinds of Hindu? And no subflavors of Buddhist? … Continue reading

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“that’s not what I meant!”

Review of a German book which “tries to show that many of the obscurities of the Koran disappear if we read certain words as being Syriac and not Arabic.”

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