Karen Armstrong says pretty much the same, but here it is from a guy who went to Harvard to study fundamentalism.

Brett Grainger sees fundamentalism as an entirely modern phenomenon, one that was born as a reaction against the modern world, but that has also been shaped by it. “Contrary to conventional wisdom, fundamentalists are not interested in returning to a pre-modern age,” he writes. “They are among the most adept pupils of modernity, copying and recasting its designs for their own purposes.”

(Hat tip to one of my fundy spies.)

BBC said it was a “robot space truck,” and I can’t imagine what else that could mean.

Robot space truck, more than meets the eye.

Beware the unbelievers! They are among us!

Even ministers sin.

It’s Cheesus!

(Hat tip to my fundy plant.)

So someone last night recommended I change my user name—at work, no less—to “papaya.”

What am I supposed to think of that?