Tranparent Eye tipped me off to this article by Gregory Paul and Phil Zuckerman claiming that religion is not on a global upswing. Like Transparent Eye, I’m skeptical.
Right off the bat, they refer to Muslims as “Mohammedans.” I’m already unimpressed. But on to the substance…
The first time I saw the term “irreligion” was in stray essays I read in college. Irreligion is a catch-all term for atheistm, agnosticism, and all sorts of other flavors of non-religion. It’s for folks voting for none of the above.
Paul and Zuckerman call attention to the growth of irreligion during the past century. The percentage of US agnostics and atheists grew from 2% of Americans just after WW2 to over a fifth today; they outnumber Southern Baptists. Just the atheists alone outnumber Jews, Mormons and Muslims combined.
Half of Americans don’t attend church as often as once a month. That’s right: less than half of America is “churched.” You wouldn’t know that from watching the news. Click to continue reading “Why the gods are not winning #1: What’s the global score?”
I’m a recent “switcher.” A little more than a year ago, I got me one of them new Intel Macbook Pros, and I’ve been a happy little Mac user ever since.
One of the reasons I switches was hard drive failure. I’ve usually had most of my files backed up, but somehow the music always seemed to fly away. Once there was a time when my iPod and my PC crashed at the same time, or crashed each other somehow.
That’s when I had to reload my music. I think i’ve had to do that at least twice over the last year. Probably my fault, but hey, it’s a bitch to have to do that. And each time you lose the music you bought from iTunes.
So I was reading this article about how Apple will give you a one-time re-download of all your purchased music. Went to Apple’s site, signed in, and popped them a quick email.
I didn’t hear back, but I just loaded up iTunes and went to Store>Check for Puchases. Bingo! One hundred and sixty downloads!
Def Leppard here we come.
A quick template revision. Nothing dramatic, just trying to open it up a little. Let me know what you think!
Me and the missus have been down around Cumberland Island the past week or so for our ninth anniversary, and here are the photos galore.
If I were going to devote my summer reading to the six sources, what should I read?
