How to talk to a Fundamentalist about Homosexuality
The recent California Law still has the blogosphere buzzing.
Jaap has this, and I respond:
Most fundamentalist systems are based on good systems which have adopted a fatal flaw. Nine times out of ten that flaw has something to do with the state. More basically, the flaw provides an exemption from the stated rules of the system, […]
How to prevent “Making Purple”
Stuff Christians Like has a list of ways to prevent Christian Kids from making out at camp. I retort:
What about providing an honestly compelling reason for kids not to make purple? What? There isn’t one? The whole kissing-leads to sex argument is true. Then why no sex? A Christian camp shouldn’t be spouting off all […]
My circle is growing, what’s valuable is knowing…
I joined the facebook group for Graduate students in Economics at George Mason University. It’s a closed group, which is important because we’ll want to keep some things private amongst ourselves. But its also a shame because the rest of you out there can’t get in on what is going to be the greatest and […]
Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right
or,
“Complaints by Krugman and Reich do not constitute proof.”
Found in the comments here.
Scriptorium’s Wrong
John Mark Reynolds at Scriptorium Daily writes about the California Court’s decision to allow homosexual marriage, and commits many of the fallacies I mentioned in the previous post. I sent him this letter:
John Mark Reynolds confuses causation and correlation.
He says, “Growth in marriage was a good sign of civilization. Breakdown in the monotheistic […]
Why Christians Hate Fags
Sam points out that:
(Some) Christians really need to start being honest about what taking anti-gay marriage positions mean: they hate gays.
Many Christians are just plain selfish on this issue. They believe that America is prosperous because it is a Christian nation. They believe God smiles on us. They fear that if wicked behavior becomes legal […]
It was not the Protestant Ethic
Two or Three has written about Religion, Innovation, and the Market Process in two parts. I left the following in the comments section:
I think you may have fallen into a teleological trap with these posts. Just because it is only in those nations where Protestantism held sway that remarkable advances were made, does not […]
“Immigration” is not the word for it
My comment over at Young Anabaptist Radicals:
As believers, how can we even use the term immigrant? To do so recognizes a state’s authority to determine arbitrary borders enforced at the point of a gun. No. Boundary lines among individuals are legitimate, the result of mutual agreement about what is “mine” or “yours” delineated to reduce […]