Voting and sin, Part 2

A long time ago a friend told me this story, which I will paraphrase, since it's been a while. A man intends to vote for a third party candidate. One day there's a knock on his door. It is the democratic candidate campaigning. He asks "Will you vote for me?" "No" the man replies. I intend to vote third party. The candidate then makes a good case,...

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Voting and sin part 1

I was in the middle of writing a blog post on voting and sin, when a friend sent me a message on Facebook: I've been discussing,the USCCB guidelines for voting, and their synchronicity/consistency with a few of the papal encyclicals (Evangelium Vitae, for one), with a few priests and several people staunch Catholics... So, since your FB post says...

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to add a little beauty

To add a little beauty to your week... Seyit UYGUR { Ebru Artist } from Oguz Uygur on Vimeo. Thank y'all so much for the likes, comments and the follows. I am really humbled. My parents perform this art (Ebru in Turkish, Paper Marbling in English) and the footage was shot for a promo piece I was working on back then and my dad asked me to put a video together for him. This is what came out of that. For those who is wondering how it's done I'd recommend googling "Paper Marbling" there is plenty of info out there. The song is "Charlotte...

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Getting it all wrong

It was with some amusement that I read "Will Science Someday Rule Out the Possibility of God?" My amusement turned to dismay. Not because the article is right, but because it has it all wrong, and some people will actually believe what it says. Let's start with the opening premise. Over the past few centuries, science can be said to have gradually...

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Monday Joke

The recent screeds by Bill Nye, Gary Trudeau and others about how belief in the Biblical creation narratives is harmful to children reminded me of a joke. Many years from now, when scientist discover how to create life, they decide science has disproved God, so they select a scientist to go up to the top of a mountain to break the news to him. The...

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Sitting in the sun

My wife and my youngest son are terribly allergic to incense. Too much and they spend the rest of the day in bed with nausea and headache. And so it was with dismay rather than delight that we entered the church last Sunday to the strong smell of incense. Thinking there was going to be more at this mass (for whatever reason, there wasn't - it was...

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The next time

The next time someone argues that "God made people gay" so we should just accept it, ask them how they feel about contraception and sterilization. Odds are they have no problem with those things. "But God made people fertile." So why should homosexuality (or pedophilia or incest or beastiality or whatever sexual act is being touted) be accepted as...

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What matters

Under Obamacare, penalty per employee per year for employers who offer NO healthcare coverage whatsoever: $2,000 Under Obamacare, penalty per employee per year for religious employers who offer excellent healthcare coverage, but omit abortion, sterilization and contraception: $36,...

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Monday Joke

A panda walks into a diner, sits down and orders a sandwich. The waitress is quite surprised, but decides to try to treat it like any other customer. It orders a sandwich and begins to eat. After it is done, it takes out a pistol, fires a shot into the ceiling, and starts to walk out without paying. The waitress says "Hey, what do you think you're...

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Anti-Choice

"Celebrity chef" Jamie Oliver said, according to Yahoo News: "We hear a lot about how we shouldn't be 'nannying' people with laws about how they live their lives, but with such a massive problem as the obesity epidemic to deal with, we are way past the point where [we] can trust people to make better choices. We have to help them make better...

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Cynical

I'm feeling cynical today, and so I'm posting a story I've tried to stay away from for a while. As you may remember, last year American Atheists, Inc. sued the 9-11 Museum to remove some wreckage of the WTC towers from it's display. The reason? The beams formed a cross. From "Are You Kidding?" The cross is made of two beams found in the wreckage...

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Person

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Monday Joke

Two avid fishermen go on a fishing trip. They rent all the equipment: the reels, the rods, the wading suits, the rowboat, the car, and even a cabin in the woods. They spend a fortune. The first day they go fishing, but they don't catch anything. The same thing happens on the second day, and on the third day. It goes on like this until finally, on...

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Monday Joke

Little Mary was not paying attention on the first day of school. Her teacher became annoyed after a while, and asked what she was thinking about. "I was thinking about how the whale swallowed Jonah" was the reply. Her teacher rebuked her, "Jonah wasn't swallowed by a whale." Mary replied "But I read in the Bible that he was." "Impossible! Whales...

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