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The Bangles’ “In Your Room”
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Tagged 1980s, America, bangles, girl bands, life, mental health break, music
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A lesson in growing up: I know that you are offended—and no, I won’t be apologizing or adjusting my language to match your sensibilities
I’m here. I have unorthodox views. I’m expressing them directly. Deal with it. Philip Pullman asserts his right to set the rhetorical tone and intellectual content of the messages that he sends and the right of people to give them attention … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, Christ, Christian, freedom of speech, God, Islam, jerry coyne, Jesus, Judaism, Muslim, religion
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Innocence to experience—to emotional blackmale
After the gorilla’s existentialist period of Camus-like despair, I suppose that the next episode will be devoted to his religious conversion: a trainer comforts the gorilla by convincing him that he doesn’t really die—but nevertheless might go to hell if he … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, death, eternal life, existentialism, gorillas, life, life after death, philosophy, psychology, the sinner's prayer, William Blake
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Are you a member of the faith community—or the doubting community?
Because every other year or so I teach the Bible as literature course at my college, I was asked to be on a panel discussing how to deal with religion in the classroom. The event was held last night and one … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, agnostic, apologetics, atheism, atheist, doubt, Emily Dickinson, faith, Jesus, religion, the doubting community, Thomas Jefferson
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