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Most theologians admit that to eliminate anthropomorphism suggests that anthropomorphism is more even than its matrix. Rather, religion looks like anthropomorphism, part and parcel.
Stewart Guthrie, Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), p. 185.
Category: Religion
Operation Save America has begun. Some of the fundagelicals are hoping to get militant, and I don't mean in that same sense that some atheists are called "militant", which generally means "atheists who say something". No, they are organizing and...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:31 AM • 138 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pointless polls
The New Humanist hands out a yearly slap-in-the-face to the most deserving noisy believer of the year — last year's winner was Sarah Palin — and this year they have a full slate of worthy apologists for superstition. It's an...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:57 PM • 238 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
I am impressed with the discipline imposed by the traditional madrassas: students are expected to memorize the Koran, word for word, which requires that they spend day after day reading and reciting. I don't deny that it's hard work and...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:19 AM • 82 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
That seems to be the idea behind forming a council of key policy advisors, whose qualifications seem to be the fervency of their obeisance to an invisible man in the sky. The move has been criticised by secularists who warned...
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Category: Politics
A sensible federal judge has struck down South Carolina's plan to proselytize with license plates, pointing out that it violates the separation of church and state for the state to not only endorse religion, but a specific religious sect. Good...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:46 AM • 51 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
The man who slaughtered 13 unarmed people in Fort Hood, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, was clearly mentally ill, and should have been treated and cared for before he snapped and went on a rampage. Unfortunately, there's another factor that seems...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:20 PM • 276 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Wow. I thought our local vets were petty when they threatened to yank scholarships if they weren't allowed to lead prayers in public schools, but now someone has topped them. Who, you may wonder? As if you couldn't guess, the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:57 PM • 103 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
This is a charming local story for Veteran's day. The American Legion post in Bloomington has been doing a little ceremony at the public schools for 40 years, and has also been giving scholarships to students. Last year, they surprised...
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Category: Politics
The sentencing of a convicted murder, Khristian Oliver, should be an embarrassment to the state of Texas; the jurors consulted the Old Testament to see what should be done with him, found a bible verse they liked — "And if...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:49 PM • 129 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
So why is the University of Edinburgh Christian Union pushing to have Bibles put in the students' rooms? It seems like a slippery slope to me—before you know it, they'll have verses emblazoned on the caber, you won't be able...
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