When The Rapture Fails
Well, the rapture failed to happen and we all had a good laugh. There’s been some pushback against the laughter and some calls for mutual understanding and so forth. But while it’s true that it’s not...
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Ken at Popehat has an amazing compilation of ‘The Year in Blasphemy” where he basically lists every documented case he could find of someone being accused of blasphemy or punished for it. It’s a...
View ArticleWhither Turkey
I’ve been a bit pre-occupied this week but have spent part of today trying to catch up to the Turkish situation. I think Fareed Zakaria makes the best case scenario that this is essentially a collision...
View ArticleForced charity is still bullshit
The new pope is making the case that caring for the poor doesn’t make you a communist, and he is right. What can be argued makes you a communist, or if you want to be pedantic and stick to the...
View ArticleThe President and ISIL
With recent pushes into Kurdish territory and the beheading of 21 Christians in Libya, there is a growing fear that ISIL is growing more and more powerful. The President has asked for an authorization...
View ArticleDouble Standard
Following along the same vein as my previous post about Indiana’s new Religious Freedom law, and Hal’s followup, I found this interesting. Jack, of Castle Rock, Colo., is making national headlines over...
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