Category Archives: History

Reductio ad Hitlerum

by VorJack
Glen Urquhart is a Republican candidate for congress in the state of Delaware. Here are his thoughts of the separation of Church and State:

Urquhart is backing away – slightly – from that statement, according to Delaware Online. He says he did not mean to imply that liberals were Nazis. What he [...]

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One-Dimensional History

by VorJack

Let me put on my public historian hat for a moment.
Recently I visited one of the elaborate Shaker historic sites in the region. Most of these seem to have a “living history” component, where they try to maintain something of the rural character of the Shakers. You can milk a cow, [...]

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A Little More of Moore

by VorJack

Some time back I wrote about Charles Chilton Moore, the Kentucky atheist and editor of the Blue Grass Blade. (and thanks to reader Sman for providing the link to this repository, as the LoC link I originally used is no longer working).
At the time, I gave a tongue-in-cheek description of Moore as the “first [...]

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Selling Humanism to a Christian

The following is a guest post by Sandra Price.
I questioned a very nice man yesterday who explained to me that he was recently saved. He had been told the story of God and Jesus as a child and never questioned the story. From his discussions about his early days, there were no books [...]

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Glenn Got One Wrong

by VorJack

I’ve heard a lot of Glenn Beck’s fans talk about his accuracy and how he always checks his facts. Well, recently he got something seriously wrong, and it got the biblioblogosphere in a huff. Joel over at Diglotting and Robert Cargill both give it full treatments.
The error went out on an episode [...]

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UFOs, Ghosts and a Rising God

by VorJack

Atheism and skepticism are siblings. They’ve been close at least since Paul Kurtz founded both CSICOP and the Council for Secular Humanism. But like all siblings they don’t always get along, and they frequently to go off in their own direction. But every now and then there’s a reunion, such as [...]

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Getting Drunk with the Documentary Hypothesis

by VorJack

The documentary hypothesis isn’t just a way of understanding the odd duplications in the Hebrew Testament. It also helps us to understand the occasional incomprehensible line. Consider Genesis 5:28-29: “When Lamech had lived a hundred and eighty-two years, he became the father of a son, and called his name Noah, saying, “Out [...]

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Family Friendly Christianity

by VorJack

This morning I had the TV on mute when a commercial for a worship program from one megachurch or another came on. At first I wasn’t able to guess what it was a commercial for, since the first half of it was nothing but blissful scenes of family life: a father playing in [...]

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