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June 2007
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preaching, sermon, uuca
Preaching on Sunday
06.08.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Preaching on SundayIf you’re swinging through Atlanta, swing on by. I’ll be preaching on the spirituality of welcome.
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evolution, mary-midgley, pack-animals, shittiness, sin
My best description of human shittiness
Since I talked about it ad infinitum, my own best explanation for human shittiness is that we’re pack animals who belong to too many packs. And then those packs belong to other, super-packs. And it’s hell trying to negotiate all that. Before our species made that turn, aggression was rare and necessary when it happened, […]
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brown-bag-controversy, oppression, UU
My two cents on the Brown Bag Controversy
06.06.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on My two cents on the Brown Bag ControversyOkay, I’m going to weigh in on the big Brown Bag Controversy. I was on vacation when it blew up, and it was tapering off when I got back. Chalicechick asked some good questions today. I just dropped off a comment there, but I want to offer a meta comment here. It feels to me […]
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irreligion, religion, unchurched, UU, uuism
Why the gods are not winning #3: Questions for UUs
06.05.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments[Parts one and two.] Say what you will about the irreligious, but they’re not us UUs. We’ve got atheists and agnostics to be sure, they aren’t irreligious. Otherwise they wouldn’t come to worship or sign the membership book. Or perhaps we’re looking at the religious irreligious? I don’t know. I hate to contribute to our […]
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Why the gods are not winning #2: Jesus loves the unhealthy
06.04.07 | Permalink | 5 Comments[Part one.] Saying these one billion people are “irreligious” is important. It seems doubtful to me that the one billion irreligious persons are actively atheists, agnostics, etc. They seem to be not atheists so much as apatheists. They don’t actively disbelieve; they simply don’t care or think about it. It just doesn’t matter to them. […]
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irreligion, teenagers
More evidence of the growth of irreligion
06.04.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on More evidence of the growth of irreligionThis time it’s about teenagers. According to a survey put out by an evangelical group, belief in heaven has declined six percent, to 69%, in just the last two years. And only a quarter of teens strongly believe that the evangelical path to heaven will get them there. Adherence to traditional doctrines like sola fide […]
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