World Pantheism Or Pancaptism?

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Pancaptism is the passion for discovering, capturing, and contemplating the deep meaning and mystery found in the objects and energies of the material world. Pancaptism rejects the anti-materialism shared by most religious people, but also rejects the superficial form of materialism displayed by those who embrace the material world without finding meaning in it.

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Recommended for a Young Geek and a Head-Strong Girl: the Tiffany Aching Series

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As the parent of a young geek, I felt compelled to introduce my son to Terry Pratchett, and gave him the young adult book The Wee Free Men for a first go. It looked like it might be a silly, …

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God’s Genocide: it’s not just an Old Testament thing

The Old Testament of the Bible is filled with instances in which the character of God directs his followers to commit genocide, ordering them to slaughter entire cities of men, women, children and babies for the offense of worshipping the …

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Good Without God Billboard Removed from Columbus… After Church Objects

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The Freedom From Religion Foundation got all the details right when it posted a billboard featuring the friendly face of Dylan Galos in Columbus, Ohio. The billboard, which featured the words “I can be good without God,” wasn’t posted on …

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Despite Bible, Avowedly Christian Groups Engage in Usury

The Bible is as clear as mud on many subjects, but it’s absolutely clear about the practice of usury (lending money at a high rate of interest). As far as I’m aware, there are no Bible verses that encourage Christians …

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It’s No Place Like Home: Creation Museum Kansas moves to ban Abortion

If you can’t ban abortion, you can still shut clinics down, at least in the land of Oz. Want to find out how?

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With New Terms, CafePress Seizes Effective Ownership of Designers’ Content

Today, an American corporation dominated by Sequoia Capital seized effective ownership rights over millions of images, but you won’t hear a peep about it. CafePress is a print-on-demand corporation that works by building relationships with people in two ways. The …

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Rep. Jack Kingston: Who Needs Food Inspections? Just Pray and Wash Your Hands

As J. Clifford pointed out two days ago, the recently passed House bill H.R. 2112 cuts food aid to pregnant women, infants and seniors at a time when long-term unemployment plagues the nation. But that’s not all that H.R. 2112 …

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Poverty and Justice

Is justice the opposite of poverty?

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Sodaheaders Fall for Michele Bachmann April Fools — in June. What comes next?

This could just be a “silly Sodaheaders!” story, if not for the ending. On April 1 of this year, I wrote an April Fools’ Day joke of a story in which Michele Bachmann was portrayed as having apologized for her …

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Go ahead, let the Weiner jokes hang out… and here’s why (no picture)

Last week, I wrote of the public kerfuffle regarding Representative Anthony Weiner of New York: …a simple declaration: there is no proof that Rep. Anthony Weiner actually sent a picture of his underwear to anybody. That isn’t stopping the right-wing …

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110th Way to Exasperate a Liberal: Tell a Torture Survivor He Doesn’t Understand Torture

On the Hugh Hewitt Show May 17 2011, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum insisted that torture survivor John McCain doesn’t understand torture: Hugh Hewitt: Now your former colleague, John McCain, said look, there’s no record, there’s no evidence here that …

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Bananas for Murder

Q: What do you call an organization shuttling money to a designated terrorist group that kills whistleblowing activists? A: Chiquita.

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First Stop, Chinatown. Next Stop, the White House!!!

In 2008, Christopher Popham Smith ran for President of the United States under the auspices of his self-declared One America Party, and is promoting himself again to help “conservatives gain ground”, “to stop the liberals, progressives, socialists, communists”, and to …

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Evading Justice In Hunt For Revenge

Maybe President Obama was using the term “justice” in another sense – in the lawless, violent sense of retribution – an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

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106th Way to Exasperate a Liberal: Prohibit Local Compassion

Republicans like to say that they support local control, that “the most effective, responsible and responsive government is government closest to the people.” Yet Republican Governor Scott Walker just signed a bill passed by the Republican-dominated Wisconsin state legislature that …

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Count of newspapers hit by No Labels Plagiarism Scheme rises to 13

Five days ago, the mysteriously-funded DC corporation calling itself “No Labels” sent an e-mail to its listserv asking its followers to visit this web page where they could send copies of pre-written text to newspapers across the country. An anonymous …

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