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Archive for September, 2009
No Women Allowed
Sep 20th
A long time ago in a Bible Belt far, far away, a group of male trustees at Ostensible Christian College recently voted never to allow a woman to join their club. Ostensibly Christian education was in that time and place simply too important to be entrusted to the weaker sex. (Women were considered to be [...]
A Warning to My Readers
Sep 16th
Attention all conservative Bible college students and prospective conservative Bible college students:
It is in your best interest not to read this blog. I am a liberal, a heretic, and a host of other dismissive labels. If you read me, you may be damaged mentally and spiritually. I will infect you with appealing half-truths, sleight-of-hand “exegesis,” [...]
Was Adam Smith the Anti-Capitalist?
Sep 7th
The American Churches of Laissez-Faire Capitalism (typified in denominations like AIG, Blackwater, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Exxon, Enron, Monsanto, and Wal-Mart, indebted to the teachings of the prophet Milton Friedman, and defended by learned apologists for the faith such as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly and Dick Cheney) worship “one like a son of man,” [...]
