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Hipster Christianity

The Wall Street Journal has an editorial up about the current efforts to re-brand evangelical Christianity in order to make it more palatable to the younger set. Entitled The Perils of ‘Wannabe Cool’ Christianity, the author is not real wild about the attempts to use new media and new tactics.
In his book, “The Courage [...]

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Jon Stewart on Mosque at Ground Zero

Jon nails it as usual.

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Man Grows Pea Plant Inside Lung

Those pesky plants — they’ll even grow inside humans:
A Massachusetts man who was rushed to hospital with a collapsed lung came home with an unusual diagnosis: a pea plant was growing in his lung.
Ron Sveden had been battling emphysema for months when his condition deteriorated.
He was steeling himself for a cancer diagnosis when X-rays revealed [...]

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A Sad Ad

by VorJack

You might have already heard that Harold Camping, host of the conservative Christian radio show Family Radio, is predicting Christ’s return on May 21, 2011, and the end of the world a few months thereafter. Camping has a history of such predictions, and the fact that he hasn’t been right yet doesn’t seem [...]

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A Proposition No-one Can Defend?

by VorJack

As Daniel already mentioned, California’s Proposition 8 was struck down as unconstitutional. Federal District court Judge Vaughn R. Walker produced a 136 page verdict which is available online.
John Pieret over at Thoughts in a Haystack is reading through it, and he picked up on this section on page 9 of the pdf:
At oral argument [...]

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Bloomberg’s History Lecture

by VorJack

As an upstate resident, I generally ignore the goings-on downstate, so I’ve never really formed an opinion of Michael Bloomberg. But the recent speech that Daniel quoted is pitch perfect and historically grounded. Here’s a selection:

Of all our precious freedoms, the most important may be the freedom to worship as we wish. [...]

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Who Wants to be a Televangelist?

by VorJack

Recently, the most popular television show is Malaysia has been winding to a close. The show, “Imam Muda” or “Young Imam,” has been a sort of “So You Think You Can Preach the Quran,” a contest/reality show intended to find the hottest new Islamic clerical talent.
The winner, Muhammad Asyraf Mohd Ridzuan, [...]

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The Triceratops Never Existed?

Two scientists are arguing that dinosaurs were shape-shifters and that triceratops were just a young version of another dinosaur:
DINOSAURS were shape-shifters. Their skulls underwent extreme changes throughout their lives, growing larger, sprouting horns then reabsorbing them, and changing shape so radically that different stages look to us like different species.
This discovery comes from a study [...]

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