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Do Tummy Aches Disprove God?
My tummy hurts. Ergo, there is no god. This argument may be absurd but it is not intended as a reductio ad absurdum. Although a very simplistic form, this enthymeme encapsulates one of the primary atheological arguments -- the argument...
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Thirty Three Things (v. 68)
1. The Market and Human Nature -- from a 2005 Q&A with the conservative scholar Roger Scruton (via Rod Dreher): MG: What deleterious consequences result from the "free market ideology" you mention? Are there particular economic arrangements that conservatives ought...
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Celestial Teapots, Flying Spaghetti Monsters, and Other Silly Atheist Arguments
You have to pity the modern atheist who attempts to present arguments for her cause. Unmoored from any respectable intellectual tradition, each generation is forced to recreate anti-theistic arguments from scratch. The result is that the claims which they believe...
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Thirty Three Things (v. 67)
1. The Last Traffic Jam The average U.S. citizen completely ignores the regularity with which the automobile kills him, maims him, embroils him with the law and provides mobile shelter for rakes intent on seducing his daughters. He takes it...
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The Gospel of Juneteenth
Although bad news travels fast, good news often takes the scenic route. That appears to have been especially true during the Civil War. Although Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation became official on the first day of January 1863, word didn't arrive in...
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Six Thoughts About Jesus
Over the years people have asked me why, since this is an evangelical blog, I don't mention Jesus more often. My usual glib answer is that I prefer not to name-drop just because I'm on a first name basis with...
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Family Resemblance
[Note: This is my belated Father's Day post. Intentionally belated, because it's not really the sort of thing one should post on Father's Day.] "You look like you're Ukrainian," said the lady at the cosmetic counter. I had been hoping...
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Thirty Three Things (v. 66)
1. Cory Doctorow on judging one's own writing: One of the things I've noticed about writing every day is that there are days when writing that page feels like flying. Like the hand of God reached down and touched my...
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Don't Marry a Proverbs 31 Woman
[Note: I originally wrote this post in 2006 with the intention that it would be provocative. On reflection I see that it is a bit overstated and certainly less nuanced than it needs to be. "Career woman", for instance, has...
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LOLCat Comm:
Cat Macros as Communication
[Note: I'm on semi-hiatus this week so original blogging will be light. I'm reposting stale old material that I hoped you missed, so that it will appear fresh and new.] Not long after Al Gore invented the internet, his wife...
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Thirty Three Things (x2)
{Special Edition}
[Note: The following are the #1 and #2 items from Thirty Three Things posts #33-65.]#33 -- 1. YouTube University: YouTube has struck deals with major universities, creating dedicated channels from which schools can distribute their media content. Check out the...
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The Infanticide Shibboleth
The Book of Judges has a curious story about a fight between the men of Gilead and the men of Ephraim. After the battle the fugitives of Ephraim attempted to cross the fords of the Jordan River but were stopped...
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Weininger's Women:
The Misogyny of Sex and the City
[Note: This weekend the Sex and the City movie racked up $55.7 million at the box office, making if one of the most profitable misogynistic films in history. In honor of that achievement, I've dusted off this post from 2005.]...
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Thirty Three Things (v. 65)
1. The Illuminati is a selection of photos by photographer Evan Baden that show young people seemingly mesmerized by the glow of their electronic devices. Baden explains his project: In Westernized cultures today, there is a generation that is growing...
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Sin on a Bun:
The Forgotten Vice of Gluttony
The appetite for sex, thought C.S. Lewis, is in "ludicrous and preposterous excess of its function." How else, he wondered, can we explain the fascination men have with watching a girl publicly undress on a stage? The "strip-tease" shows the...
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