“You can’t go around building a better world for people”
For an explanation of what Weatherwax Wednesdays are all about, read the introduction post. This week’s Discworld quote comes from Witches Abroad, which is, among many other thing, a retelling of the...
View ArticleNow to ‘Scape the Scapular
The Bright Maidens (a blogging network of young Catholic women) are writing about scapulars this week, and I figured I’d poke my nose in. A scapular is a piece of cloth worn around the neck. It is a...
View ArticleHeaven Can Wait (in your debate arsenal)
Greta Christina and a different Christina at Freethought Blogs both recently came to the conclusion that the Christine doctrine of Heaven is coercive. It’s so dangerous that Greta Christina called it...
View ArticleWhen Do You Reject Your Intuitions?
A while ago, a commenter emailed me to ask if I could recommend any books to read on human cognitive bias, and now that I’ve finished Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, I can, with great...
View ArticleQuasi-Transhumanist Charismatic Christians
This post is part of Patheos’s book club for T.M. Luhrmann’s When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God. I recieved a review copy free of charge. This was a...
View ArticleThat Moment We Saw You For What You Really Are
The “Welcome to JT” thread has digressed into a number of interesting discussions (parental authority over children, what to make of data that suggests the people you think are wrong are doing better...
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