Bookworm on Dec 19 2007 | Filed under: Islam, Mormons
Michael Cappi, who got interested in Islam after being near Ground Zero on 9/11, has written what looks like a must-read book called A Never Ending War. Jamie Glazon interviews Cappi at Front Page Magazine, and Cappi has some very interesting things to say about the nature of Islam, the Koran, War and the [...]
Bookworm on Dec 18 2007 | Filed under: Barack Obama, John Edwards, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Mormons, Presidential elections
I don’t like Obama, whom I consider an empty shirt, utterly devoid of experience and elevated to his lofty position only because of his skin color, something that I consider that worst kind of racial identity politics. (I just checked and it turns out that, at this particular minute, Silky Pony, the radical rich [...]
Bookworm on Dec 11 2007 | Filed under: Christians, Mitt Romney, Mormons
On May 23, 2007, I did a post in which I looked at Mitt’s Mormonism, and concluded that it shouldn’t matter because his values are what counts, not the path he took to arrive at those values. Based on comments left in response to that post, I updated it to explain that, as far [...]
Bookworm on Apr 03 2006 | Filed under: Culture, Mormons
I seem to be on a binge of books that make me wonder. Today's book is Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith. This is a book I mentioned before in connection with my reflections on whether a religion can abandon founding tenets and still be considered true [...]
Bookworm on Mar 28 2006 | Filed under: Islam, Mormons, Religion
Much ink has been spilled (or should I say, many bytes have been generated) about whether Islam can be modernized so that Muslims can integrate with the modern world. As many have pointed out, devout Muslims feel themselves absolutely bound to live by Mohammed's principles — principles that involve such anachronisms as polygamy, death by [...]
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