July 2007
The Archives
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hymnal, liturgy, UU
Look what just landed on my desk
07.31.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Look what just landed on my deskI 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 from the UMC’s hymnal […]
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atheism, atheists, richard-dawkins, social-networks
Richard Dawkins wants to get to know you better
07.26.07 | Permalink | 3 CommentsHonestly, 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 as a subdirectory? Doesn’t exactly […]
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cats, death
Scat cat!
07.26.07 | Permalink | 3 CommentsThis grim reaper of a feline better not snuggle up to me!
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gnosticism, god, lost, phil-k-dick, valis
Finding and misplacing god
07.24.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsAfter 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 problems come when […]
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atheism
Yet Another UU does atheism
07.21.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Yet Another UU does atheismCheck it out.
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atheism, coca-cola, coke, god, polytheism, theism
Response to Hafidha: Atheism is all about Coke
07.20.07 | Permalink | 12 CommentsIn 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 of […]
