I remember learning about the saints and the various grisly means of their demise, including modern saints who died for their faith, and praying that God would give me that kind of strength because I was sure I would never be able to endure such trials.
What was your greatest fear, inspired by religion, your parents, [...]
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Greatest childhood religious fear
A JW Vampire?
This cartoon is an image from an ad for a comic (in fact, one that I don’t really read). I have seen the ad numerous times and always thought it was amusing. Which do you think would be harder?
For those who cannot see the image the dialogue is simply:
“It must be hard to be Catholic [...]
Atheology
Such a thing does exist, as many of you know, but the discussion in my previous post makes me wonder about those who claim to do theology without affirming the faith of the tradition that they study. Why bother?
Please don’t get me wrong, I firmly believe that one can, as I do, be a scholar [...]
A cartoonist’s view on atheism
I am sure you all are familiar with the comic artist Dan Piraro. At his blog he regularly posts one of his strips with commentary. Today’s entry along with this week’s discussion of Philip Davies’ essay was worthing of sharing. (NB: The links in the text are Piraro’s.)
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“You may say that I’m a dreamer”
Imagine… or “Why can’t we all just get along?”
I think I will use this line in our next faculty senate committee meeting.
