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Why “god” and “God™?”
06.02.03 | Permalink | 4 CommentsNext time you run into the village atheist, ask him which “God” he doesn’t believe in. Invariably, he will go on to describe “the Man upstairs” or some other version of “Evil Santa Claus.” Or as sung by the cast of Futurama: He knows when you are sleeping, He knows when you’re on the can, […]
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Cynicism update: Be more like ‘American Idol’
06.02.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Cynicism update: Be more like ‘American Idol’Martha Paskoff at The American Prospect wonders if the recent voting habits of 24 million American Idol fans topples the conventional wisdom on why young Americans don’t vote. In brief, American media should be more like Simon Cowell. At length, Paskoff writes: Another popular theory holds that young Americans are turned off by the negative […]
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Wisdom literature
05.31.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Wisdom literatureThe Happy Tutor has graciously provided us with twenty free aphorisms, in the key of Nietzsche. Like all wisdom literature, you do not read it; it reads you.
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Cynicism doesn’t mean a damn thing
05.30.03 | Permalink | 5 CommentsMatt Bai’s piece on Howard Dean is harmfully cynical. He presents a false dilemna: the unelectable liberal voice of rage versus the electable wishy-washy Washington insider. This is a disservice to all candidates, but especially to Howard Dean. If I believed Dean was just another Brown or Kucinich, I would not support him. Dean combines […]
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A short history of dogma
05.29.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on A short history of dogmaLight gathers moths as saints swell churches. The light blown out, what moths remain make doctrines of the dark, and rest their wings in ashes. (By Gene Fendt)
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‘Radical’ orthodoxy
05.29.03 | Permalink | 11 CommentsThe newest trend in god-talk I’ve heard of calls itself “radical orthodoxy.” The tagline is deliberately provacative, an apparent oxymoron that demands more attention. In many ways, radical orthoxy builds itself upon the edifice of another recent mini-movement, “postliberalism.” Proposed by George Lindbeck and several of his Yale colleagues, postliberalism positions itself as the resolution […]
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