Yesterday I watched on the History channel The UnXplained, starring William Shatner, and the episode I saw was Mysteries of the Bible (S2E7) all about how there are different Bibles that were made in many hundreds of years in different countries and they contain inconsistencies and contradictions that could only be man-made. I think if every child ( Read more... )

Nowadays I don't watch as much TV as I did years ago and I really haven't loved a show since "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" ended. However every once in a while there is something that intrigues me on TV. The past couple of weeks James Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler, on "Jeopardy" has been absolutely fantastic. Today on his 11th day on the ( Read more... )

Wednesday evening I went with some friends to see Baba Brinkman perform in "The Rap Guide to Religion" (see http://www.bababrinkman.com/). It was fairly amusing and I did learn one thing that made a huge impression on me - the explanatory drive. To quote David Brooks in the NY Times: We are born with what some psychologists call an “explanatory ( Read more... )

Came across this on FB and found it fascinating:

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An argument going around fundie circles is Pascal's Wager which posits that even though the existence of God cannot be determined through reason, a person should wager as though God exists, because so living has everything to gain, and nothing to lose. The question arises, which God? Here is one man's answer:

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Well since Mitt Romney is still a strong contender amongst the  Rethuglicans (*g*) I thought I'd check out exactly what he supposedly believes in at The Skeptics Annotated Book of Mormon. I know it's not PC to comment on someone's religious beliefs but if the Mormons truly believe all that it just proves David Hannum's adage that "there's a sucker ( Read more... )

Spent the day roaming the internet and came across two great posts.
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They're going to establish a sturch in Missouri!! Thanks to tabaqui I just discovered that Missouri legislators seek to make Christianity the state religion believing the separation of church and state applies only to the Federal government. Many years ago I read a book by Robert Heinlein (considered by many to be the dean of SF writers of the 20th ( Read more... )

Both Carl Kolchak and Barney Fife aka Darren McGavin and Don Knotts have passed away. RIP.

I've come across a lovely Spike/Fred post-NFA fic called The Ashcraft Series by sockmonkeyhere. There are 2 complete stories with a third one just beginning. The author has come up with some very original notions. I rarely read het but if I do it's one where Spike finds ( Read more... )