July 2007

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• hymnal, liturgy, UU

  Look what just landed on my desk

  07.31.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I don’t know how rare this is (Scott?), but our librarian just dropped a copy of the 1935 Beacon Song and Service Book on my desk. I’m really enjoying thumbing through it. It’s a shame Singing the Living Tradition doesn’t have some short orders of worship in it. I miss that […]

• atheism, atheists, richard-dawkins, social-networks

  Richard Dawkins wants to get to know you better

  07.26.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Honestly, this is too much. Professional atheist Richard Dawkins has started a social network for atheists on his own website, at richarddawkins.net/social.
  Okay, I get it that someone wants to start a social network for atheists. Not a bad idea. Why not? But putting it on your own, named domain […]

• cats, death

  Scat cat!

  07.26.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  This grim reaper of a feline better not snuggle up to me!

• gnosticism, god, lost, phil-k-dick, valis

  Finding and misplacing god

  07.24.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  After browsing some gnostic bloggers, I went and picked up a copy of VALIS, one of Phil K. Dick’s last novels. It’s a trip.
  He writes: “They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep him.”
  Assuming they do let you keep God, the […]

• atheism

  Yet Another UU does atheism

  07.21.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Check it out.

• atheism, coca-cola, coke, god, polytheism, theism

  Response to Hafidha: Atheism is all about Coke

  07.20.07 | Permalink | 12 Comments

  In the comments, Hafidha asks me to spell out how I can say I’m not a theist or atheist but then say I’m something of a panentheist. My answer: there’s theism and then there’s theism.
  By “theism,” most folks usually mean monotheism, with one god who is all-knowing, all-powerful, all-present, and all-loving. Different flavors […]

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