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The notion of personal responsibility in fundamentalism is a curious one. You are responsible for your sins, but you cannot take credit for the good things that you do. Any good that you do must be attributed to God working through you. Yet you must try to be Christlike. When you fail, it is your fault for not 'letting the power of God work in you.' This is an effective double bind of responsibility without ability.
Marlene Winell, Leaving the Fold (Oakland, CA: New Harbinger, 1993), pp. 70-71.
October 31, 2010
Category: Open Thread
On this dark and dismal night, let us turn the denizens of the perpetual conversion towards serious thoughts of feminism, poverty, the environment, and something else. (Not safe for work. But funny anyway). "We're just monkeys in shoes." Love that...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:04 PM • 591 Comments •
Don't you know Halloween is supposed to be creepy scary? Yet people keep assaulting my senses with adorableness! OK, maybe the Hello Kitty shirt is a little bit chilling....
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:52 PM • 26 Comments •
Category: Politics
This is an alien-eye view of what we puny humans have been doing to ourselves for the last 60 years. It's all just fireworks until the giant mutant radioactive insects emerge to eat us!...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:20 PM • 81 Comments •
Category: Personal
Two salient facts: We no longer have any cats. The kids all moved out, and to our shock and surprise, they took their pets with them. I guess we raised them responsibly after all. Temperatures here in the soon-to-be great...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:44 PM • 109 Comments •
Category: Godlessness
Atheists aren't just using languages I don't know, they're writing in alphabets I can't read! It's Svobodni.org, which means something, I'm sure....
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:42 PM • 14 Comments •
Category: Godlessness
Kevin Myers is some wackalooney Irish commentator who, as far as I know and as fervently as I hope, is no recent relation to this Myers — the only thing I can commend him on is that he manages to...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:27 AM • 120 Comments •
If you happen to be up around Thunder Bay, Ontario, you might see these jack o'lanterns glowing in the yard of Corinne and Kevin. Here's another one, sent to me by Sarah:...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:01 AM • 37 Comments •
October 30, 2010
Category: Religion
Ray Comfort is great at demeaning the whole of Christianity by doing all the stuff you imagine that not even a Christian would stoop to doing. His latest: targeting the elderly with cards to remind them of their mortality and...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:14 PM • 183 Comments •
Category: Politics
I had the Stewart/Colbert rally on in the background most of today. There were funny bits, there were entertaining bits, I'm sure everyone there had a good time. It was a pleasant afternoon of entertainment on the mall. But in...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:31 PM • 272 Comments •
Category: Godlessness
How sad. There are atheists everywhere else, but here in the United States, Robert Putnam says there are almost no atheists. It used to be, in the 1950s, that most Americans were kind of in a moderate, not very intense...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:45 AM • 178 Comments •
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