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The Christians of Egypt are the Jews of the Early 21st Century
I’m not being hyperbolic. The world needs to protect the Christians of Egypt, and it can do so by opening opportunities for them to immigrate. Christians number about 9 million people in Egypt—about 10% of the population—and they’re “the other” standing in the way … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Christians, coptic, Egypt, Exodus, immigration, Islam, Jesus, Jews, Moses, muhammad, Statue of Liberty
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Let My People Go: Reconsidering the Tea Party
I have of late been rethinking the meaning of the Tea Party to American politics. My first take was dismissive: this movement is the same type of Herderian nationalism that, last century, brought Hitler and his merry band of crazed … Continue reading
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Tagged Ayn Rand, conservatism, Exodus, liberalism, libertarianism, Moses, tea partiers, tea party, the soul, virginia postrel
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Let My People Go: A New Exodus from Egypt?
Blogging at the Jerusalem Post, Barry Shaw offers a provocative take on Egyptian Christians, describing them as: . . . defenseless as were the Jews in Europe seventy years ago. And his advice to Christians as an Israeli observer is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Christians, Egypt, freedom, freedom of religion, God, Islam, Israel, Jerusalem, Jesus, Moses, muhammad, the exodus
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A Jesus and Mo Cartoon That I Disagree With
There’s a recent Jesus and Mo cartoon (you can see it here) that I disagree with. In the first frame Moses (or is it Muhammad?) is sitting at a bar with Jesus, and Mo says this to the barmaid: If … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, atheism, atheist, caspar melville, dialogue, epistemology, faith, jerry coyne, Jesus, Moses, muhammad, philosophy
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In praise of Chateauneuf (Voltaire’s godfather and tutor)
Below are some rather impious lines from La Moisade, a 17th century French satirical poem (author unknown). It opens with this sass of Mosaic legislation: A teaching so irrelevant Shall not my doubts destroy? With empty sophism thou shalt not My reason … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Catholicism, child rearing, critical thinking, God, humanism, Jesus, Moses, skepticism, teaching, the Bible, Voltaire
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A Moses for the 21st Century: Ed Moses
Ed Moses of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California may be leading the world—through nuclear fusion—into a real Promised Land—the Promised Land of an abundant energy future. If you are not already up to speed on what Ed Moses and his team of scientists … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st century, America, California, ed moses, energy, fusion, humanity, Moses, physics, Prometheus, promised land
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Christopher Hitchens deconstructs the Ten Commandments—and offers an alternative decalogue of his own
I much prefer Hitchens to Moses—except perhaps when Moses arrives in this form:
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Tagged atheist, Christopher Hitchens, decalogue, fundamentalism, God, Jesus, medicine, Moses, religion, tablets, the Bible, the ten commandments
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What It’s Like to Be Gay in Uganda
The man with a bag over his head in the video below is from Uganda. He is seeking asylum in the United States, but because his asylum petition could fail he dares not show his face in public. Why? Because … Continue reading
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Tagged asylum, bigotry, Christian fundamentalism, gay equality, gay marriage, human rights, James Dobson, Jesus, lesbian, Moses, uganda
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Richard Rorty on Making Ethical Choices in a Godless Universe
I think that Richard Rorty is right about this, but it’s a bit jarring to read it stated so directly and matter-of-factly. The quote comes from Rorty’s essay, “Kant vs. Dewey” (in the last collection of his papers, Philosophy as Cultural … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, atheism, atheist, ethics, God, law, Moses, nihilism, philosophy, richard rorty, ten commandments
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Are You a Bohemian?
This nineteenth century person was. She let herself be painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and he named the painting Lise the Bohemian (1868): This appears to be a young woman, amidst a languid summer, in the process of falling in on herself, almost … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960s, 19th century, art, beauty, bohemian, Dionysus, Freud, hippie, Moses, ouroboros, painting, Renoir
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This is What the Tablet Future Looks Like?
Maybe. But contra the video, probably not this year.
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A Curious Parallel Between Genesis and the Mesopotamian Enuma Elish
Biblical scholars see parallels between the creation story of Genesis chapter 1 and the Mesopotamian Enuma Elish. Here’s an example: Parallels like the one above suggest that Genesis 1 was written by a Jew living in Babylonian exile, and that the story … Continue reading
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Tagged archeology, Christianity, creation, Enuma Elish, evolution, Genesis, Hebrew Bible, Judaism, Mesopotamia, Moses, myth, the Bible
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Why Are There TEN COMMANDMENTS (and Not, Say, Fifteen)?
Mel Brooks has a theory:
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Tagged apologetics, Christianity, Exodus, Hebrew Bible, hypothesis, Jesus, mel brooks, Moses, Old Testament, religion, ten commandments
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“Moses got his ears pierced? What else didn’t we know?”: Novelist Garrison Keillor on His Week of Religious Doubt
Garrison Keillor writing in Salon.com today: The Scripture reading in church Sunday gave me a jolt — Exodus 32, which refers to the Chosen People wearing earrings, men as well as women, and I twitched when the lector read it. Yikes! Moses … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, Christianity, doubt, Exodus, faith, garrison keillor, Jesus, Judaism, literature, Moses, piercings, Sarah Palin
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Thomas Gainsborough’s Daughters Hold Hands. One Reaches for a Butterfly. The Other, Holding a Feather, Looks On. There is an Element of Impulse and Restraint in the Painting That Echoes Michelangelo’s Moses
One girl seems thoughtful, and may be holding a feather that will become a quill pen. The other seems more impulsive. Like Michelangelo’s Moses, tugging back at his beard to restrain his anger and energies, I see one girl slightly … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th century, art, daughters, Freud, Judaism, life, Moses, painting, psychology, romanticism, sisters, thomas constable
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Thinking About the First Monotheist: Not Moses, but Akhenaten
In the 14th century BCE, the Egyptian pharoah Akhenaten, father of “King Tut” (Tutankamen), and husband of Nefertiti, seems to have had some profound revelation that there was only one God, and that God’s name was Aten—who manifested himself in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Akhenaten, Bible, Egypt, history, literature, monotheism, Moses, poetry, Santi Tafarella, totalitarianism
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Moses, Monotheism–and Akhenaten
I recently read the book, “Akhenaten and Tutankhamun: Revolution and Restoration” (Silverman et. al. 2006). The book is 188 pages long. About half of those pages are taken up by image, the other half by text. Thus, in about 90-100 pages you … Continue reading
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Tagged Akhenaten, ancient history, archeology, art, Aten, bust of Nefertiti, Egypt, Moses, myth, Nefertiti, Santi Tafarella
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Prometheus Unbound 