Arrrrgh. I'm writing about politics again. Or am I writing about religion? Here is a section from "God, the Gospel, and Glenn Beck" by Southern Baptist pastor/seminary professor Russell Moore: It’s taken us a long time to get here, in this plummet from Francis Schaeffer to Glenn Beck. In order to be this gullible, American …
Month: August 2010
Bjorn Lomborg — the “skeptical environmentalist” is skeptical no more
From Yahoo! News: Noted anti-global-warming scientist reverses course. With scientific data piling up showing that the world has reached its hottest-ever point in recorded history, global-warming skeptics are facing a high-profile defection from their ranks. Bjorn Lomborg, author of the influential tract "The Skeptical Environmentalist," has reversed course on the urgency of global warming, and …
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St. Louis creation museum?
Here's a listing from an internet classified ad site: Seeking Board Members for Group (Advocates for Creation Science) A newly formed organization is seeking those who would serve on the board of directors. This organization, "Advocates of Creation Science" or "ACS" is the dream of Michael Douthat, a retired engineer. His ultimate desire is to …
Crunchy Con Environmentalism
Yesterday, I quoted "A Crunchy-Con Manifesto" from the book Crunchy Cons, by Rod Dreher. I won't say too much about most of the book: the chapters on consumerism, food, education, and so forth. I do want to spend a bit of time taking a closer look at the chapter on the environment. Dreher starts with …
A Crunchy-Con Manifesto
I have too many half-read books on my bookshelf (or in some cases stacked in piles in my office). One of them is Crunchy Cons, by Rod Dreher, with the subtitle "How Birkenstocked Burkeans, gun-loving organic gardeners, evangelical free-range farmers, hip homeschooling mamas, right-wing nature lovers, ... America (or at least the Republican Party)." I …
Albert Camus — evangelist?
From "Saved by an Atheist" by Rob Moll, who returned to faith in Christ in part through reading The Plague by Albert Camus: Yet the biggest influence on my spiritual journey was the novels and philosophy of Albert Camus, a French existentialist of the 1940s and '50s—and an atheist. C. S. Lewis warned, "A young …
Bumper sticker historical revisionism
A car at work has this bumper sticker: Ummmm... I think it has been over 300 years since anyone was burned at the stake in this country (a very unfortunate event in U.S. history). Since that time, mixing of politics and religion has led to some rather positive historical developments, such as the abolition of …
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