Category Archives: Religion

A Handy List of Bible Verses that Christians tend to ignore

Posted on Friday 23 May 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

http://backyardskeptics.com/wordpress/new-testament-bible-verses-xtians-tend-to-ignore/ Such as: Women Should Shut Up in Church Women: Don’t Dress Up, Fix Your Hair, or Wear Jewelry Gouge Out Your Eyeball Don’t Defend Yourself if Attacked Do NOT Pray in Public Give Away EVERYTHING You Own

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My Sect Is Right and Yours Is Wrong — Obviously

Posted on Friday 23 May 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

This Skepticblog post has a review of a book called God Bless America: Strange and Unusual Religious Beliefs and Practices in the United States by Dr Karen Stollznow, has this opening passage: When I grew up in the Presbyterian Church, … Continue reading →

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Thoughts About the Legal Profession

Posted on Friday 16 May 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

Aside from the occasional TV series about lawyers (I followed L.A. Law while it ran, and recently we’ve been watching DVDs of old Perry Mason episodes), I’ve never had much interest in the legal profession, intellectually, and find it hard … Continue reading →

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ACE and False Witness

Posted on Wednesday 14 May 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

When my company was owned by Pratt & Whitney/United Technologies, we were obliged to implement an ‘operating’ system of process improvement procedures called ACE, “Achieving Competitive Excellence”. From my browsing of favorite websites, I’ve gathered there is another ‘ACE’, Accelerated … Continue reading →

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Rainbows and the Afterlife

Posted on Wednesday 14 May 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

Notes for an idea. Had thought the other day to pursue the metaphor about human life being a transient state of a vast collection of molecules that will eventually collapse and disperse, leaving nothing behind, rather analogous to the way … Continue reading →

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What the Bible Says about Homosexuality

Posted on Sunday 11 May 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

(Posted last night on Facebook) The Bible backs same-sex couples: Point by point, why the haters are wrong Matthew Vines has been around making his case about how the Bible does not in fact condemn same-sex couples for a couple … Continue reading →

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Blessed Are

Posted on Monday 5 May 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

This is an old Joan Baez song, from her 1971 album of the same title — an original song by her, after she had passed through her folk music phase and begun composing her own songs. Has some nice lyrics, … Continue reading →

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Another Revised Ten Commandments

Posted on Sunday 4 May 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

I’ve been collecting these. This is is from Facebook today. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152110608613553&set=a.32904403552.30927.597123552&type=1

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American Christianity and Conservatism

Posted on Monday 28 April 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

Andrew Sullivan strikes at Sarah Palin’s glib, despicable remark that “Waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists” — to which her audience cheered — with this post: Sarah Palin: Anti-Christian It reveals that vast swathes of American Christianity are objectively anti-Christian, … Continue reading →

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Bunnies, Eggs, Spring

Posted on Sunday 20 April 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

Everyone’s posting about Easter today, so I’ll acknowledge two or three of those posts, that capture better than I have time to do myself why I find the whole Easter tradition fascinating as a cultural development, but implausible and uninteresting … Continue reading →