From the daily archives:

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

First patriotism, now God soaked patriotism?

February 12, 2008

Our daughter just started school this year and it’s been wonderful to see her slowly get past her bashfulness. Getting her to talk, even to say if something hurt was like pulling teeth with pliers made out of play dough.
Getting her talk to even family members was about impossible and strangers speaking to her [...]

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What happens if God strikes himself dead?

February 12, 2008

Growing up in the southern US one of the phrases I heard and still repeat myself sometimes is “may God strike me dead”. It was/is a way of communicating that one is not lying no matter how far fetched the story might be.
If you were lying, God was supposed to take you out [...]

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Do you have enough faith to survive cancer?

February 12, 2008

I’ve written a couple of posts about Kenneth Copeland and his holy war against Senator Grassley’s investigation, but a comment this morning reminded me of something that’s being overlooked in the scam that is the “prosperity gospel”.
What’s been overlooked is how Copeland and the rest get people to give them the money in the first [...]

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The longest suicide ever?

February 12, 2008

90 Day Jane is due to kill herself a little over 80 days from now. She’s not crazy, depressed or any of that – she’s an atheist who thinks life has no greater purpose. There’s just no point to living, especially since her generation hasn’t had the experience of a “great depression” [...]

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