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Sandy Hook and the Battle of Fredericksburg: Guns, American Culture, and the...
(FYI: Be sure to click through the links as you go and then read them after you finish the article) Last week marked the anniversary of one tragedy and, due to unspeakably horrible events that unfolded...
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Have We Created Our Own Gun-Crazy Dystopia?
Aaron Adair raised a useful point: [D]o we really want to fear a [dystopia] by making it legal for terrible people to get the sorts of weapons that will rip through law enforcement? via Looking at the...
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‘The Bible’ Series and the History Channel
So the History Channel is going to air a new ‘The Bible’ series. What does this mean? What is it exactly? What are the implications? “History” As you all know, I’m not a fan of the History Channel....
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Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries: Enslaved Women in a Modern World
I’m not sure how I didn’t know about this sooner. A report in TIME World from last week caught my eye. It seems that Americans were kept pretty much in the dark about this terrible atrocity: They...
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The Difference Between a Catholic and the Catholic Church
An individual I have a long history with, whom I know as Michael, left a comment on my blog post about the Magdalene Laundries today. It is important that I share it and my response: StMichael wrote:...
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Criticism of a Quote About Criticism
Or, rather, how said this anyway?! This image was shared on Facebook today. While I agree with the quote itself, I was hesitant because I couldn’t think of a context where Aristotle would have said...
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More Potential ‘Catholic Church Depravity’ Just Coming to My Attention
This is just so disturbing. This was published in May of last year, so not sure where the investigation leads, but this: While the mobster’s presence on sacred ground has caused a scandal, it’s his...
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Bill O’Reilly and the Polarizing Political Figure of Jesus
It has come to my attention that Bill O’Reilly will be publishing a book on the life and death of Jesus. This news has been making the rounds on the interwebs and of course I’m concerned. It isn’t...
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‘The Bible’ the Novel About a Program About the Bible?
So while browsing through the New Releases section at Barnes and Noble yesterday, I came across this rather fascinating book: Oh, yes they did! In case you were wondering, yes, this is a novel based...
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Cats in the Cradle: The Importance of Family Trees
The Discovery A while ago I wrote on the value of online genealogy tools like Ancestry.com and Fold3.com. Through them I was able to discover some rather amazing facts about my family tree about which...
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Using the Bible to Support ‘Pro-Life’ Arguments
Bob Cargill shared an interesting verse this morning from Genesis 6, which portrays a frustrated god that so regretted his creation (man) that he sent a flood across the world that swallowed all...
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I’m Being Harassed and Threatened by Ralph Ellis
Dear Friends and Family, Over the past few hours, Ralph Ellis has been running around Google searching for my name and sending out hateful and spiteful emails to colleagues and friends (also to me,...
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Recognizing Fiction in History: “Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!”
As I delve further into the background narrative of the Revolutionary War in America, I’m learning a great deal more about the power of rhetoric and fiction in the development of this nation. The most...
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The American Revolution and the Debate Over Gun Control
While doing research for a side project in which I have a great interest (American History), some general myths have been debunked (for me, at least) in the process. One such myth is the notion of gun...
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The American Revolution Was NOT About Modern Issues
I was born and raised just a handful of miles from where General Sullivan started his long (and doomed) campaign north against the native Iroquois Confederacy and the British; in the town where I was...
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What if the King had Conceded to Colonial Demands?
In response to my last article on the causes of the Revolutionary War, a friend on twitter asked me (in twitter speak, so revised): ‘What if King George had granted representation and a few of the...
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Tackling a Storm God: A Deist’s Impression of Yahweh and the Control over...
1. The Crisis On May 20th, an F5 tornado wrecked havoc in the community of Moore, Oklahoma. Scores of people died, including children; the tornado spared little. Through the devastation, a community...
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Students, What Have I to do with Thee?
So we are now finishing up our first week of class and it seems like it is going to be an interesting semester. In my ‘Jesus’ class, most of the students are very religious. That’s fine. But I am...
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Did the Ancient Jews Practice Crucifixion?
Last night during one of our class discussions on the historical Jesus, the question came up over crucifixion; someone had made the claim that only the Romans had practiced it. But is that really the...
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