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Game show looks to convert atheists
Posted on July 3rd, 2009 by Will.
What happens when you put a Muslim imam , a Christian priest, a rabbi and a Buddhist monk in a room with 10 atheists?
Game show looks to convert atheists
Thomas Aquinas would have loved genetics
Posted on June 25th, 2009 by Will.
Many know that I grew up Catholic, and I’m quite familiar with Aquinas (always one of my favorites, though I wasn’t as big a fan for Aristotle). Great article from the Guardian:
In the five ways Aquinas was not trying to prove the existence of God at all, but was showing that an acceptance of Aristotle is no bar to belief in God. This is why he ends each argument not with "QED God" but "And this is what all men call God". Aquinas does not think God exists. He thinks he is existence.
And countering the common refrain I’ve heard most of my life about “But what came BEFORE the Big Bang”,
Aquinas would have had no problem with Hawking’s contention that the Big Bang didn’t need somebody to light its fuse but can be explained mathematically.
Will the Antichrist be a homosexual?
Posted on June 3rd, 2009 by Will.
Ladies & Gentlemen, …. the Pope
Posted on March 17th, 2009 by Will.
Benedict said that the Roman Catholic Church is in the forefront of the battle against AIDS.
”You can’t resolve it with the distribution of condoms,” the pope told reporters aboard the Alitalia plane headed to Yaounde. ”On the contrary, it increases the problem.”
(my emphasis)
via Pope Says Condoms Make AIDS Problem Worse .
Showing Who’s Boss
Posted on January 13th, 2009 by Will.
I’ve not posted on the turmoil in the Gaza strip. I’ve done my best to read as much as possible, and have connections to people who have lived on both sides. But I cannot comment with any real expertise. I will say that I am truly saddened by those who are truly suffering and dying, especially as none of us (that I’m aware of) has a choice as to where they are born. But this quote by Mr. Olmert is beyond bragging, and I cannot understand how one says this publicly.
“I said, ‘Get me President Bush on the phone,’ ” Mr. Olmert said in a speech in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, according to The Associated Press. “They said he was in the middle of giving a speech in Philadelphia. I said I didn’t care: ‘I need to talk to him now,’ ” Mr. Olmert continued. “He got off the podium and spoke to me.”
….Mr. Olmert claimed that once he made his case to Mr. Bush, the president called [Condoleezza] Rice and told her to abstain. “She was left pretty embarrassed,” Mr. Olmert said, according to The A.P.
Kevin Drum – Mother Jones Blog: Showing Who’s Boss.
God is the State of Kentucky’s first line of defense against terrorism
Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by Will.
Under state law, God is Kentucky’s first line of defense against terrorism.
The 2006 law organizing the state Office of Homeland Security lists its initial duty as “stressing the dependence on Almighty God as being vital to the security of the Commonwealth.”
Specifically, Homeland Security is ordered to publicize God’s benevolent protection in its reports, and it must post a plaque at the entrance to the state Emergency Operations Center with an 88-word statement that begins, “The safety and security of the Commonwealth cannot be achieved apart from reliance upon Almighty God.”
(via Clayton Cubitt )
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