Jesus Magnets
A friend of mine recently returned from a trip to the “Rusty Midwest Bible Belt” and gave me two refrigerator magnets he bought in a Church store.
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The Trouble with Tradition
Traditions are what we now call “memes” and the danger in the covenant of a tradition merely for “tradition’s sake” is the unfortunate blind adherence to a policy or an ideal that is made valid merely by its relational occurrences.
The Definition of Karma
I love it when people have no idea about the definition of “Karma” — but still freely use it anyway in a sentence as an enforcer against their hoped-for punishment of someone else’s bad behavior. They think Karma is something immediate and predictable and tangible and just around the corner waiting to pay you back. If you make an immoral decision, God will wait get you in death — but Karma will punish you next Wednesday!
Sam Harris Teaches Biological Morality
Sam Harris is one of the special thinkers, like Richard Dawkins, who dares to stand up to popular thought and challenge our ideas of religion against our ideals of relative moralism. Sam’s new book is “The Moral Landscape” and he teaches us why morality is biological.
Sharia Law and Censoring NSFW Link Shorteners
Are you offended by the image below of a bare-knuckled woman with naked arms drinking from a Beck’s beer bottle? vb.ly is a link shortening service that takes NSFW (Not Safe For Work) content and “safe-ifies” it by giving an SFW — Safe(r) For Work — link to click. Unfortunately, for vb.ly, the “.ly” domain belongs to Libya, and Libya is a country that adheres to Sharia: Islamic Law — and Libya doesn’t want any booze-holding, tatted chicks riding their domain anywhere near NSFW territory.
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