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At first sight the story of the man who marries a dog, bitch to be precise, seems totally absurd and a society that could allow such a marriage might seem demented. But this story is not a fraction as crazy as the weird and wonderful disaster that has been wrought on the world by the [...]
Filed under: Religion
Mollie Ziegler Hemingway flags a fascinating study in her Wall Street Journal op-ed today:
The Gallup Organization, under contract to Baylor’s Institute for Studies of Religion, asked American adults a series of questions to gauge credulity. Do dreams foretell the future? Did ancient advanced civilizations such as Atlantis exist? Can places be haunted? Is it possible [...]
Filed under: Religion
The past several weeks have seen an interesting surge of commentary and analysis on neoconservative “dual loyalty” coming from Jewish writers: Phil Weiss’s indispensable blog is ground zero; Joe Klein’s musings in Time Magazine were brave and significant; now J Street honcho Daniel Levy has eloquently weighed in on [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Religion
I’ve just learned (tardily, as usual) from Tom Piatak at Taki’s that University of Minnesota professor and blogger of the unfortunately common uber-glib school (casual conversational tone, replete with gratuitous obscenities), PZ Myers, outraged at the reaction of a Catholic church to a student protester spiriting away (excuse the expression) and defiling the Eucharist, has [...]
Filed under: Religion
This truly is an egregious story from England:
Two schoolboys were given detention after refusing to kneel down and ‘pray to Allah’ during a religious education lesson.
Parents were outraged that the two boys from year seven (11 to 12-year-olds) were punished for not wanting to take part in the practical demonstration of how Allah is [...]
Ross Douthat has some spot on thoughts here:
Obama’s overt religiosity, his emphasis on social justice, and his team’s savvy religious outreach make him a more attractive figure to many evangelical voters than any other Democratic nominee of recent vintage. Factor in John McCain’s reticence about his own faith, his much-publicized spats with religious-right pooh-bahs, his [...]
There is something bizarre about President Bush’s rapturous affection for Pope Benedict XVI. Look at this BBC video, which shows him barking “Such an honor! Such an honor!” at the Pontiff like a demented guest at a cocktail party.
It seems odd that the two leading international statesman behind the invasion of Iraq, Bush and Tony [...]
Filed under: Religion
I’m just retrograde enough to think that voting for Barack Obama because of the gesture it constitutes, whether to Black America’s or the world’s historical resentment, is an absurd way to go about selecting a president (and the source of a nifty political gimmick for a campaign already low on substance). But one can’t deny the reality of [...]
Filed under: Foreign policy, Religion, World
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“The King’s good servant, and God’s first.”
2008
“They might think me an imperfect servant of our country, which I surely am. But I am her servant first, last, and always.”
Filed under: Conservatism, Culture, Politics, Religion
Correction: Via email I’ve been informed that Ben Stein is in fact opposed to the war in Iraq. My sincere apologies to him. I’m reminded again why I had resolved to forgo the blog method of calling out individual personalities by name (why I sometimes break that resolution is mere laziness–it’s just so easy to [...]
Filed under: Culture, Religion, Uncategorized, War