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The Dante’s Inferno Test
I do not usually do memes and things like the, but when my old (I have known her for 41 years!) friend, Sr. Edith Bogue, OSB, posted her results, I decided to try it: Continue reading
Pseudo-science, censorship, and incompetence
Expelled!. Also see the follow-up.
Via Bad Astronomy.
As my mother used to nag us: Don’t do a half-way job!
A visitor to Assisi
Mikhail Gorbachev admits he is a Christian
Mikhail Gorbachev is a Christian say Franciscan friars
Via The Angels are in the Details, which asks some good questions and comments:
This going to be a major shock for the old “Gorby is the Antichrist” crowd. Or maybe not. After all, it seems that Gorbachev has embraced an ancient, liturgical form of the faith.
Mixed Nuts
Two recent incidents at Midwestern universities, actually quite similar IMHO:
From If you reject a teaching job applicant because he believes a crazy conspiracy theory…:
[….] the University of Wisconsin has not rehired 9/11 conspiracy believer Kevin Barrett to teach a course on the history of Islam. […] if we know a person believes something truly nutty, are we not entitled to use that as evidence of his intelligence, judgment, and trustworthiness?
From Silly creationists, Universities are for scientists:
….Iowa State University denied tenure to astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez. As it happens, Gonzalez is an advocate of Intelligent Design, which has been legally ruled to be not only religion, but actually just warmed-over creationism.
I believe both Universities acted correctly.
Crossing off another one
Mike Huckabee’s Favorite Author
See The Sneetches.
Philip Pullman vs. C.S. Lewis
Religious thinking
Following a link from GetReligion, I saw that a Seattle Parish Offers Astrology Workshop.
I am not happy about this. I can handle all sorts of unorthodox thinking in the Episcopal Church. E.g., for decades I have been going to churches that are very welcoming of gays and lesbians, and sometimes have gay and lesbian clergy.
However, this is different. I do not consider astrology to be thinking.
I seem to be part of a movement.
(See yesterday’s post.)
Buy Nothing Day. From my old friend Sister Edith at Monastic Musings.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 