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Religion
Friday, September 09, 2005
HAVE THEY REACHED *YOUR* PERSONAL “YUCK” THRESHOLD, YET?
Really not?
BRITISH scientists have been given permission to create human embryos that will have three genetic parents….The decision to approve the procedure on appeal, after two previous applications were rejected, is controversial because it could eventually lead to the birth of children who carry genes from two mothers and a father.
“Controversial”? Do tell…...
Science • Miscellany • Religion • Politics • Life Issues • Comments •
SOMEONE HAS ‘WAY TOO MUCH TIME ON HIS HANDS…..
At least, I THINK that the Children of the Multi-prismed Light is a great big joke…...
Sunday, August 28, 2005
WHO SAID THESE WORDS?
“To all of you I appeal: Open wide your hearts to God! Let yourselves be surprised by Christ! Let him have “the right of free speech” during these days! Open the doors of your freedom to his merciful love! Share your joys and pains with Christ, and let him enlighten your minds with his light and touch your hearts with his grace.”
Don’t read on, yet….just re-read the sentences above and think of religious figures that you would guess might have said them…...
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
IT WOULD BE NICE IF WE ALL COULD KEEP THESE PRINCIPLES FIRMLY IN MIND!
DAVID GELERTNER throws a fastball right down the middle in this fabulous essay, that ends with:
The great Pharisee Rabbi Hillel says in the Talmud: “Do not judge your fellow-man until you have been in his place.” The Talmud says also that one must “judge every man generously,” “from the standpoint of innocence.” Neither Dr. Dobson nor his opponents have proved equal to these difficult and beautiful ideals. All we can do is keep on trying to conduct this serious debate in a serious way—and not get beaned by wild fastballs.
This is surely one of the most difficult standards of conduct to reach for normal human beings.
READ the whole thing.
(Hat Tip: K-Lo on The Corner)
Monday, August 08, 2005
JOEL STEIN ISN"T THE ONLY ONE WHO IS CHANGING RELIGION…....
Apparently, OTHERS HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM.
Say you’re a theologian in the religion business who’s concluded that your company’s oldest and most trusted product doesn’t really exist. What do you do after the death of God? You could lie to the customers and stockholders, continue writing copy, and ruefully await retirement….Or, like Mark C. Taylor, you could become an entreprofessor, a broker in the emerging intellectual markets, trading in some of the hottest stocks in cultural capital. Pooling your dwindling fortunes in theology and philosophy with venture capital from postmodernism, you nimbly navigate the volatile and bubbling markets in profundity, hang out with the rich and famous, and after a while you’re a pioneer in internet education, adulated in the Sunday New York Times. As long as the bubbles don’t burst, and as long as the old business doesn’t revive, you’re as safe as a tenured academic—which, of course, you are already.
Hilariously, or sadly, depending on your point of view, the above description is NOT applied by some cynical outsider viewing the current scene in theology. It’s simply a paraphrase of professor Taylor’s own writings on the subject…... You’ll cringe, you’ll cry, you may even get mad! Definitely worth reading!
Thursday, February 17, 2005
DEFEATING ISLAMISTS WITH LOGIC? YEMEN GIVES IT A TRY…....
When Judge Hamoud al-Hitar announced that he and four other Islamic scholars would challenge Yemen’s Al Qaeda prisoners to a theological contest, Western antiterrorism experts warned that this high-stakes gamble would end in disaster.
Nervous as he faced five captured, yet defiant, Al Qaeda members in a Sanaa prison, Judge Hitar was inclined to agree. But banishing his doubts, the youthful cleric threw down the gauntlet, in the hope of bringing peace to his troubled homeland….
“It’s only logical to tackle these people through their brains and heart,” says Faris Sanabani, a former adviser to President Abdullah Saleh and editor-in-chief of the Yemen Observer, a weekly English-language newspaper. “If you beat these people up they become more stubborn. If you hit them, they will enjoy the pain and find something good in it - it is a part of their ideology. Instead, what we must do is erase what they have been taught and explain to them that terrorism will only harm Yemenis’ jobs and prospects. Once they understand this they become fighters for freedom and democracy, and fighters for the true Islam,” he says.
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