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Friday, March 14, 2014

Adventures in God

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Although Buber (as mentioned two posts back) denies the implications of his own theology, he writes in his most famous work, I and Thou , t...
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Thursday, March 13, 2014

I Can Get You a TOE by 9 O'clock this Morning

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Let's play a theological game of SPOT the FALLACY (or EXPOSE the THEO-ILLOGIC). Hartshorne's essay in The Philosophy of Martin Bube...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

I AM, IRS, and You are IT

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I would like to expand upon some of the ideas discussed in yesterday's post, including the conflict between theo-logic and theology, or ...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Theology, Theologic, and Theomena

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Excuse me? Theomena? That would be the best word I can think of at the moment for spiritual facts and divine data (a variation on phenom...
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Friday, March 07, 2014

Between Cynicism and Faith

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Because science is science, it can never be settled. Nor can it have any absolute content per se. That is, it is a relentlessly skeptical ...
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Thursday, March 06, 2014

What's the Big Idea?

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One more post on the Noble Savages and ignoble ones. I wanted to say savage Nobelists, but no anthropologist has ever been awarded one. P...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2014

Praise Marx and Pass the Ammo

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It seems that Isaiah Berlin, whose first book was a biography of Marx, never got over the experience. In a good way. He tips his hand in...
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Tuesday, March 04, 2014

My Time Among the Savages of the Left

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Upon returning to 1966 after his seventeen-month time-travel to the Stone Age, a colleague invited Chagnon to lecture her class on his find...
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Monday, March 03, 2014

Ignoble Savages and Tenured Apes

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I have barely any time this morning, so I can only lay a foundation for the insultainment to follow. Noble Savages provides fascinating in...
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Friday, February 28, 2014

No Brain, No Problem

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Some fascinating material in this book on How Judaism Became a Religion . Interestingly, it seems that all of the main strands of Judaism...
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Thursday, February 27, 2014

Immanuel Transmission vs. Automatic Salvation

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In yesterday's post I neglected to include a juicy comment by Moshe Idel, a renowned schola' of the kabbala' (cited in Boyarin )...
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Fleshlights & I-AMmissaries

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Boyarin writes that in the first few centuries AD, "Jews and Christians were much more mixed up with each other," but over time c...
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

PS I'm Ambivalent About You

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Well, I don't know if there's much more to say about The Jewish Gospels . It seems to be one of those one-idea-and-keep-hammering-i...
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Monday, February 24, 2014

Jews for Jesus for Jews

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The Jewish Gospels puts forth the outrageous idea that Jesus and all of his followers were -- wait for it -- Jews! Actually, it's no...
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Friday, February 21, 2014

Liberalism is Downstream from a Toxic Spring

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As usual, we want to be completely fair and balanced in our treatment of liberals. Ideally, we don't want to write anything we couldn...
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Thursday, February 20, 2014

Divine Comedy?

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Instead of posting, I slacked off and watched an episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with Jay Leno. Then I watched the one with Ho...
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

On Being MisCaste in the Role of a Lifetime

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Expert? Know it all? I hardly think so. If I had to blog about what I already know, I'd be bored out of my skull. It would be like w...
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