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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Preaching to the Perverted

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Just a few more random observations about Ruden's Paul Among the People . Most of them have to do with the very different cultural con...
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Friday, March 19, 2010

When in Rome, Don't Do As the Romans

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It just occurred to me that the ideas and values Paul was preaching would not have been all that shocking to the Jews (the whole messiah bus...
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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Putting the Apostle Paul In His Place

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Not much time this morning, but I'd like to spend it discussing this important new book, Paul Among the People: The Apostle Reinterpret...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Healing the Wounds and Wounding the Heels of History

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When the inferior reader hears of O, he only laughs at it; it would not be O if he did not laugh at it, for its blinding superabundance of ...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Unhinged Skepticism and the Supreme Value of Nothing

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Although the atheist believes he knows the reasons for his devout atheism, he actually has no idea that he is naively immersed in a discredi...
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Monday, March 15, 2010

Obama Hates Me!

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"Rights that are defensive for an isolated individual become aggressive for a collectivity," as Schuon once put it. With the left...
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Sunday, March 14, 2010

Give Us Your Victims, Your Losers, Your Addled Misfits Longing To Be Serfs

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Woke up an hour later this morning, so I just grabbed this old Bobastic rant from a few years ago... Re-read meat for the base! Excellent p...
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Saturday, March 13, 2010

On Speaking In and Of Reality

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Science has a lot of answers. Duh! But only to very narrow and specific questions. If you ask the wrong question, for example, "Why ...
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Friday, March 12, 2010

Secrets of Successful Farming: Good Seed, Deadly Pesticide, and Lots of Miracle Grow

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People argue about Jesus -- it is easier than to let yourself be scorched by contact with him. -- Swami Abhishiktananda All that is true, b...
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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Lovely Lies and the Forces of Spiritual & Material Poverty

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We live in a world of forces; and not just physical forces, but mental forces, emotional forces, spiritual forces, and even economic forces...
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Take Charge of Your Delusions with the One Cosmos Wisdom Tool!

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When philosophy uses reason to resolve a doubt, this proves precisely that its starting point is a doubt which it is striving to overcome, w...
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