tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55320402024-03-23T11:59:00.101-07:00The Enlightenment ProjectPhilosophy, Politics and Economics from an Unrepentantly Liberal PerspectiveAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.comBlogger459125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-63789449712569830872016-04-15T14:52:00.002-07:002016-04-15T15:20:35.880-07:00From The Iliad to the Odyssey
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http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/29/my-take-im-spiritual-not-religious-is-a-cop-out/
Why on earth would anybody want to be 'spiritual but not religious'--whatever that comes to? Religion provides the machinery to produce religious experience. Why bother with meditation or whatever SBNR people do to get that experience when religion produces it more reliably, with greater intensity and Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-13366753357111055722012-09-18T18:40:00.000-07:002012-09-19T06:55:05.632-07:00Romney and the 47%
It's always a kick to discover what other people say about your kind of people behind your back. My best find was a student conversation overheard at my campus. "The professor was wearing a tee shirt," said the first student, "a striped one." The other said, "We're paying to be here: you don't have to stand for that."
So now we know what Romney and the Republican donors who had the bucks to Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-79800322464098532602012-09-14T20:26:00.000-07:002012-09-14T20:26:01.988-07:00Let's have a demonstration!
Let's get out with signs and tell the world, and the Muslim world in particular, that we Americans do not support the lunatic Islamophobia of "Pastor" Terry Jones and whoever concocted the offensive film that set off this outrage.
Sorry Muslim people. That film is not the behavior of Christians, or Jews, or Americans of any religion or no religion. It was the work of detestable trash whom weAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-91651526397688008262012-09-12T07:59:00.000-07:002012-09-15T08:57:30.620-07:00Core CurriculumI've signed up for a Saturday workshop at school on "core curriculum"
and, having just read the "materials" for this monstrosity I'm probably
going to drop out--even though they give us $100 and a free lunch for
going. The stuff is sickening--inflated, vacuous, pious bullshit.
So
what do I think about "core"? I prefer "general ed" of course because
it isn't core or central to the mission ofAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-61464460358105720672012-09-01T10:56:00.002-07:002012-09-01T19:35:58.946-07:00Evolution and the Science Guyhttp://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/27/bill-nye-slams-creationism/
Good Lord, what is this nonsense about evolution? When I was a little kid, in the wake of Sputnik, all Americans wanted to promote Science, and there was no nonsense about "Creationism." There were TV shows about life emerging from the primordial soup and that's what we learnt in biology. No one doubted it.
In high school weAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-80547028996549281922012-08-29T08:19:00.000-07:002012-08-29T08:19:10.714-07:00Chris Christie cometh
http://prospect.org/article/chris-christies-dark-vision-america
“Christie-ism”—an aggressively anti-worker conservatism that uses
working-class affect and the promise of solidarity to push right-wing
policies and mask a broader assault on the social safety net. It’s an
approach that could take Christie to the White House. Indeed, this
speech was a virtual audition for 2016 and Christie’s Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-80905926303076109682012-08-16T09:51:00.000-07:002012-08-16T10:51:59.548-07:00Liberal Christianity http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/what-is-liberal-christianity/
If all publicity is good publicity Ross Douthat has done a service to the Episcopal Church by announcing its forthcoming collapse in his NYTimes column and blog. His thesis is the standard, discredited explanation from Dean Kelly's 1972 book Why the Conservative Churches are Growing
By the same token I suppose Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-45823887908808698502012-08-08T20:05:00.003-07:002012-08-08T20:05:57.969-07:00Religion Dying Outhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/08/religiosity-plummets-ireland-declines-worldwide-atheism_n_1757453.html
Hard to accept but religion is dying out--slowly, lingering in the Third World and among the poor, but inevitably dying.
I don't understand why people are pleased about that. The death of religion means a duller, deader, more prosaic world--without rituals and myths. I prowl the blogsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-66136938169460363812012-06-13T19:00:00.003-07:002012-06-13T19:00:50.570-07:00Food Desserts
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-19825998209352018682012-04-05T20:03:00.001-07:002012-04-05T20:04:56.932-07:00Obama is an Atheisthttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/21/franklin-graham-obama_n_1290657.html?ref=christianity
Of course he is. The odds of members of his demographic being religious believers are minimal and there is no reason to think that Obama is any different from his cohort. He's not a Muslim, of course. He's just a common or garden variety atheist who joined Rev. Wright's church because membership in a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-78683893196949162062011-09-10T18:36:00.000-07:002011-09-10T18:40:09.527-07:00The Joy of Religionhttp://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/09/09/bloomberg-sundays-911-ceremony-a-civil-not-religious-occasion/
Mayor Michael Bloomberg
is defending his decision to exclude religious leaders from New York
City's commemoration of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, saying
Friday that "government shouldn't be forcing" religion "down people's
throats."
Fuck you Michael Bloomberg! How is Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-18830958946166170812011-08-21T14:22:00.000-07:002011-08-22T15:44:08.224-07:00US judges rule for teacher who called creationism 'superstitious nonsense'http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2011/0819/US-judges-rule-for-teacher-who-called-creationism-superstitious-nonsense/%28page%29/2
“Aristotle … argued, you know, there sort of has to be a God. Of course that’s nonsense,” Corbett said according to a transcript of his lecture. “I mean, that’s what you call deductive Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-61590325080334453732011-08-01T06:00:00.000-07:002011-08-01T06:00:03.240-07:00The President Surrenders on Debt Ceiling - NYTimes.comThe President Surrenders on Debt Ceiling - NYTimes.com: "The President Surrenders- Sent using Google Toolbar"That stinking wimp Obama has sold me down the river--and my kids. I'm furious!We can't win because liberalism has become a style instead of an ideology. Liberals eat arugula and lite healthy things--not nasty red meat gotten by killing animals. Liberals are nice. So in December when BO Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-34100184633811493242011-07-20T20:44:00.000-07:002011-07-20T21:00:55.150-07:00Religious QuandryNow here's a question. Is religion really just a mechanism for social control and, in particular, for promoting a socially conservative agenda? Is there any more, or other, to it than that?I'm inclined to think that there is. And I have no sympathy with the standard socially conservative agenda--on sexuality, abortion or "family values." But what else is there to religion now, asAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-66862068242572915722011-05-29T11:07:00.000-07:002011-05-29T11:07:39.917-07:00Mladic’s Arrest: What Did Serbia Know? by Charles Simic | NYRBlog | The New York Review of BooksMladic’s Arrest: What Did Serbia Know? by Charles Simic | NYRBlog | The New York Review of Books: "The big question is why the Serbian government waited so long to arrest him, because it is difficult to believe that security services had completely lost his trail after he ceased to be protected by the army some years back.- Sent using Google Toolbar"Why? Because the Serbs are a primitive tribal Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-23917390823915844902011-05-23T07:27:00.000-07:002011-05-26T12:41:33.835-07:00Solution: Give Everybody Money!I've been reading Nixonland, a journalistic history of Nixon and his times--times I remember from my college days, when there were riots and protests, sit-ins, teach-ins and occasionally love-ins, and when I marched for something I knew not what.One thing I learnt in college was that rich people were in just about every way better than poor people. I came from a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-81253213181719387142011-05-09T18:54:00.000-07:002011-05-10T09:59:44.500-07:00Secular Studies MajorI don't know whether to be surprised that it happened or surprised that it took so long: a California college has become the first in the nation to offer a major in secularism.Ho-hum. More of the usual New Atheist boosterism, harping yet again on the same old theme: in a world dominated by bigoted Christians brave atheists are at last asserting themselves and being Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-29417407542954132882011-02-25T19:28:00.000-08:002011-02-25T20:00:59.697-08:00The Revolution is On!I wonder now how deeply implicated the US was in keeping the despots in the Middle East in power. I'd suspect lots. And I was taken in by the propaganda--was blind and now I see.The real question always was: "Do we want these countries to like us or to be like us." The propaganda intentionally muddles the two questions. So the Bush administration pushed for regime change by Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-79781664085335216772011-02-06T17:16:00.000-08:002011-02-06T17:16:59.128-08:00Guest Voices: Organized religion is big business - On Faith at washingtonpost.comGuest Voices: Organized religion is big business - On Faith at washingtonpost.com: "- Sent using Google Toolbar" Big Businesses famously roll on in this country because we're scared of letting them fail. And if there truly is an American business that's too big to send swirling down the economy's drain, it's the Organized Religion Industry (O.R.I)....The premise of the O.R.I, that you need Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.com225tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-39403152807248648202011-02-04T13:20:00.000-08:002011-02-04T13:20:24.465-08:00Egyptians Muster for a New Protest as Crackdown Widens - NYTimes.comEgyptians Muster for a New Protest as Crackdown Widens - NYTimes.com: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"Hello, Egyptians (if anyone is reading this). I don't know how else to sent this message but...please, please keep fighting! I cheered for the green revolution in Iran, that's now underground but which I believe will emerge. Please keep fighting. And I can only say "please" because it isn't my life,Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-59519597723339007752011-01-17T00:11:00.000-08:002011-01-17T00:11:36.181-08:00The War on Logic - NYTimes.comThe War on Logic - NYTimes.com: "And it’s not about the money. As I tried to explain in my last column, the modern G.O.P. has been taken over by an ideology in which the suffering of the unfortunate isn’t a proper concern of government, and alleviating that suffering at taxpayer expense is immoral, never mind how little it costs.- Sent using Google Toolbar"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-80685962600131781422010-12-16T20:15:00.000-08:002010-12-16T20:15:52.615-08:00Field DayChristians In Karachi Comes Under Attack From Islamists: "KARACHI, PAKISTAN (ANS) — Local Pakistani Christians and the family of a Christian youth are facing potential death threats and the terrorization of “dire consequences” following the elopement and marriage of a Christian young man who has converted to Islam and his young Muslim bride.- Sent using Google Toolbar"So. Converting to Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-88960767754432091022010-12-03T09:22:00.000-08:002010-12-07T19:50:22.892-08:00Why Can't Christianity Be More Like Yoga?Hindu Group Stirs Debate in Fight for Soul of Yoga - NYTimes.com: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"[A] group of Indian-Americans has ignited a surprisingly fierce debate in the gentle world of yoga by mounting a campaign to acquaint Westerners with the faith that it says underlies every single yoga style followed in gyms, ashrams and spas: Hinduism. The Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.com0