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American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Blogger friend Rick:
At our favorite go-to loving, compassionate and oh-so tolerant Religious Leftist hide-out:
A few days ago Brian McLaren commented via Sojourners on some disturbing findings from a recently released Pew Forum study, reported on here by CNN:
White evangelical Protestants were the religious group most likely to say torture is often or sometimes justified — more than six in 10 supported it. People unaffiliated with any religious organization were least likely to back it. Only four in 10 of them did.
There’s no getting around this one. Those unaffiliated with any religious organization were less likely to support torture than the white evangelical Protestants surveyed. To borrow a line from Anne Lamott once again, I suspect Jesus has been drinking a lot of gin out of the cat dish this week.
Just to avoid confusion, let me be crystal clear on this one: I don’t believe you can be a Follower of Jesus and be in favour of torture, no way, no how.
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I’m wondering if those “six in 10” white evangelical Protestants are not so much for torture per se, but in reality are for torture as long as it is practiced against people who do not look like them.
“No getting around this one.” Heh. Heheheh.
No time to elaborate on where the flock has gone astray here, but it has to do with what you truly believe if you’re a gnostic atheist. We grew here, we’re nothing more than the natural result of wetness and nutrients coming in contact with each other, there is no Divine Will placing us here.
And therefore when one of us places several others of us in mortal peril, there is no moral imperative to do anything about it. Our leftist Christian-bashers are mistaking the absence of something for an abundance of it.
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Right. They’re all RAAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST!!!!!
And of course, they can’t argue with that, because they’re white.
- philmon | 05/05/2009 @ 13:57