Category: Religion
Plymouth, Minnesota plays a fairly important role in my life. It is a big suburb to the west of Minneapolis, a mainly liberal or progressive middle class bedroom community linked to first ring extra-urban commercial development based mainly on corn. Kellogs, Cargill, Mosaic, other companies...
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Posted by Greg Laden at 9:58 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
"Train up a child in the way that he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it." -Proverbs 22:6 This is a report of a Fundamentalist Christian couple who beat thier 7 year old child to death as part of...
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Posted by Greg Laden at 7:22 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Election 2012
This is not new but it is current. In 2009, Michele Bachmann donated several thousand dollars to an organization that carries out exorcisms mainly on teenagers who have bee posessed by multiple demons. This has become increasingly popular among Christians ... the idea that demons...
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Posted by Greg Laden at 9:40 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Proposal to all candidates: Denounce the new October 21st EOW date or step aside from politics.
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Posted by Greg Laden at 4:19 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
It's all just a matter of calibration. Let me 'splain....
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Posted by Greg Laden at 11:53 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: GLBTA
Bradlee Dean is the infamous Minnesota preacher who has called for the execution of gay and lesbian people. Today the Republican controlled Minnesota house planned to take up legislation that would call for a constitutional ban on gay marriage, and Bradlee Dean was called on to provide the opening prayer for the session.
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Posted by Greg Laden at 7:32 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
You've all seen the photograph. Here's a closeup: On the right is a bunch of people in the Sitch Room at the White House watching in-house coverage of the Navy Seals taking out O-b-L. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Counter Intel Adviser Audrey Tomason...
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Posted by Greg Laden at 2:48 PM • 74 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Atheism
I have always thought, naively and probably incorrectly, that what defined Accommodationist is what they think, not how they argue. At the same time, I have always thought that what defined a "New Atheist" is how we argued, and not what we think....
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Posted by Greg Laden at 10:11 AM • 74 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Atheism
Darrow was born this day in 1857. He was a lawyer and a prominent member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). We know him as the defender of John Scopes in the Monkey Trial of 1925. Darrow and Scopes lost that trial, which was...
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Posted by Greg Laden at 10:35 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Or worse. Below the fold. Not work safe. Don't be holding the kitty or you might squeeze it by accident:...
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Posted by Greg Laden at 7:43 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks