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Language Liberalism Freethought Birds

Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.

Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time.

The church says Earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence in a shadow than the church.

If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.

Sunday, November 12, 2006

Carnival of the Godless

The Carnival of the Godless is up over at Debunking Christianity. My post The Identity of the One Ring was submitted but not chosen - don't know why (now I do, check the comments if you care, it's quite a reasonable reason); you might want to read it anyway - but that won't stop me from recommending the posts that were chosen, particularly

Hell's Handmaidens's post on Faith: Evidence of things unseen?,
Dr Biobrain's look at the concept of 'plyaing dirty for God',
Daniel from GBLogBB's look at evangelicals against the religious right, and
Daniel Dennett's wonderful "Thank Goodness", meditation on whether life-threatening illness brings you to God.

It's a good selection - check it out this (rainy) Sunday.

2 comments:

nsfl4:18 PM, November 15, 2006
Thanks for the link.

I really didn't see any connection between godlessness and the article. It was a good one, though. It just was politics, with no tie-in to godlessness, unlike the other politics posts I allowed in.

Again, nice post.
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The Ridger, FCD7:56 PM, November 15, 2006
Ah ... Okay. I thought it was, but it's all in the eye of the reader. As JM Coetzee once said, once the words are written even the author cannot control the associations they waken in readers - or don't waken. Thanks for the kind words, though. And the posts you did choose are good ones, for sure.
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