Articles Posted in the " Religion " Category

  • Religious fervor in Practice (another Apple story…)

    Religious fervor in Practice (another Apple story…)

    A while back I wrote comparing tech to religion, focusing on what was important–the spirit or the flesh (okay, the OS or the hardware…). Recently a writer at the Atlantic Monthly has done the same thing, exploring the 4 myths...


  • One Christmas Post

    One Christmas Post

    My brother tends to write far more about the Christmas holiday, and Christmas, than I.  I suspect it is because he is a Priest.  But anyway, he has had many great posts, and reposts of comics, and such this holiday....


  • Quote for Today from Paul Feyerabend

    Quote for Today from Paul Feyerabend

    Feyerabend’s book, “Against Method” stands as a critical look at science, and how we “know.”  As part of the domain “philosophy of Science” he stands as one of the interesting challengers to what we think we know, categorized often as...


  • Obama as Messiah?

    Obama as Messiah?

    Apparently the Telegraph thinks so.  I saw this on Google, and was struck by the “halo effect” that seems to be following Obama: It was interesting.  I went to the story that went with the photograph (you see it has...


  • The Right Reverend Wrong

    The Right Reverend Wrong

    (apologies to our British friends for the lame play on words in the title) Alternate Title: Confused About Race in 2008 America A recent imbroglio on another blog got me thinking. Not about intellectual fascism (which set the whole thing...


  • “I deny your reality, and substitute my own”

    “I deny your reality, and substitute my own”

    Thanks to my brother, I have once again become engaged in a discussion of what can be “proven” and “dis-proven.” Or more to the point for this discussion, whether one can “prove” a negative. Apparently, there is an on-going debate...


  • Critical Thinking and our Youth

    Critical Thinking and our Youth

    I have been viewing the independent documentary, Jesus Camp, on YouTube, and reading the comments on there as well. In addition, I watched a discussion with the directors of that film. All in all, I think it is a very...


  • Guests Visit “Jesus of the Floorboards”

    Guests Visit “Jesus of the Floorboards”

    I have just had guests over for the evening, and the husband commented that it looks more realistic in person than on the website, and the wife commented that she can no longer use that bathroom without covering “him” up...


  • Jesus in the Floor Vs Mary in the Grilled Cheese

    Jesus in the Floor Vs Mary in the Grilled Cheese

    Okay, so many people have commented that this Jesus in the Floor was like Mary in the grilled Cheese. I wondered about that, so I went and found the Mary in the grilled cheese stories, and pictures, including in Wikipedia...


  • The Countenance of Jesus

    The Countenance of Jesus

    Several people have asked some very good questions. I figured I would answer a few now! “Did it suddenly appear?” A very good question. Actually I have been staring at it for a while, and wasn’t sure I wanted to...