Circular defenses and church authority June 8, 2006
Posted by mwj as religion, twu. 4 comments.(Authentic religions) too can degenerate into idolatries; especially where the will to power is waiting to corrupt them; and this, alas, is almost invariably the case when the Church becomes endowed with temporal authority.
-Gabriel Marcel, “What is a Free Man?”
Today I stumbled across the Secular Web, and found an interesting piece entitled Advice from an Agnostic Baptist Minister. The authorship is anonymous (as most agnostic baptists would probably like to remain), but it offers some interesting insights into the forces that keep Christian beliefs firmly entrenched in the minds of their believers.
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Canadian children are toxic June 2, 2006
Posted by mwj as canada, environment. add a comment.From the Toronto Star
“I’m dismayed at the extent of heavy metals that showed up in her,” says the girl’s mother, Barri Cohen. “And I’m even more dismayed that she has higher levels than I do in some chemicals.
How does it feel to have more lead in your blood than your mother?