Category Archives: Religion

LQCs: Conservative Values and Behaviors

Posted on Thursday 24 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Topics for today: conservative grievance and rage; Marriage Equality is the next conservative target; Christian behavior; religious tests; longing for a 12th century past. (I usually display an image from one of the items I post, but for today I’ll … Continue reading →

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LQCs: Happiest Nations; Social Constructs; Salesforce Park

Posted on Monday 21 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Yesterday we visited Salesforce Park, in the city.

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LQCs: Conspiracy Theories and Authoritarians, One More Time

Posted on Saturday 26 February 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Links and comments today about the US Right’s continued taste for authoritarians and conspiracy theories.

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Ls&Cs: Trust, Doom, Errors, Science Fiction

Posted on Monday 21 February 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Issues today from the NYT letters page, about trust in government and humanity’s doom, and about theological errors. With an endpiece about science fiction reviewing…

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L&Qs&Cs: Separation of Church and State

Posted on Saturday 12 February 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Pleasant day today, warm and sunny. We did a half-hour walk along Robinson to Skyline and back to Crestmont. I read 150 pages of the popular Mary Robinette Kowal novel, the one that won the big awards. Of my collected … Continue reading →

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LQCs: Covid, human sacrifice, religious faith

Posted on Friday 28 January 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Kurt Andersen on human sacrifice; Matthew Rozsa on Covid-19 and religious faith; headlines.

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Ls&Cs: Threats and Exaggerations

Posted on Tuesday 25 January 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

First, because the general subject fascinates me, here’s a response, by Samuel Goldman in The Week, to the Rauch/Wehner essay in NYT I posted about two days ago about what it is about the left that makes conservatives tolerate Trump.

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Ls&Cs: Engagement with the Universe

Posted on Monday 24 January 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Two contrasting perspectives, today, both passages I just happened to read during my morning web browsing. Rival worldviews. One characterizing religious myths, the other about Kim Stanley Robinson.

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E.O. Wilson: THE SOCIAL CONQUEST OF EARTH (2012)

Posted on Wednesday 19 January 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

E.O. Wilson’s THE SOCIAL CONQUEST OF EARTH, from 2012, is in my estimation one of the four most significant books by this scientist and writer. (The others are ON HUMAN NATURE, 1978; CONSILIENCE, 1998; and THE MEANING OF HUMAN EXISTENCE, … Continue reading →

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Links & Quotes: Spy Stories; Secularism

Posted on Tuesday 11 January 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Janis Ian (the singer, who I follow on Facebook), offered this David Bowie quote the other day: “As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time … Continue reading →

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