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Entries from January 2009

Conversation Overflow for Please Refrain from “Anti-Moderates” Rhetoric

January 27th, 2009 · 80 Comments

This post is for the purpose of continuing the conversation from the previous post, whose comment thread was getting too long. (A new cutline supports WordPress’ paged comments, but looses comment numbering, which we use a lot.)

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Please Refrain from “Anti-Moderates” Rhetoric

January 27th, 2009 · 348 Comments

…on this blog, that is. We all agree that the problem is fundamentalism (the strong form, I sometimes use a softened version of the term). Where we don’t all agree, is what the “cause” is — consequently, what to do about the problem. The so-called “new atheism movement” often expresses the sentiment that moderates are [...]

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Two Years, Past and Future

January 24th, 2009 · 7 Comments

Happy birthday to this blog, which has now existed for two years and a day. I’d like to take this opportunity to briefly sit back and look at the first three years of this its existence. Chapter 1 First quarter, Genesis! There was chaos, there was uncertainty. The first uncertain, tentative steps into the blogosphere. [...]

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Sadducees and the Afterlife

January 6th, 2009 · 15 Comments

In my previous post on Hope, I talked about what I consider to be arrogance, when people think they know what’s best for others whose context they have no experience of (in the section “Thoughts about Destroyers”), in an attempt to promote understanding of the fact that where humans find hope, and how much they [...]

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