Archive for the 'Religion' Category
Bookworm on Feb 28 2011 | Filed under: Christians, Gay marriage, Homosexuality, Religion
Rodney King got his 15 minutes of fame for (a) getting beaten up while resisting arrest; (b) having his name attached to some horrific riots; and (c) plaintively asking “Can we get along?” The last is a great thought. I’d like to get along with people better myself. “Getting along,” though, presupposes that people have [...]
Bookworm on Jan 17 2011 | Filed under: Religion
Ricky Gervais distinguished himself well yesterday by savaging the same people who usually savage us, the ordinary Americans. The video makes for somewhat uncomfortable viewing, since the victims of Hollywood’s barbs are usually sitting anonymously in theaters and living rooms, not in the same room in which the insults are being issued. Hollywood’s stars expected [...]
Bookworm on Dec 16 2010 | Filed under: Religion
One of my oldest blog friends is Patrick O’Hannigan, a devout Catholic and a true humanist. He has written a simply gorgeous article over at the American Spectator, about religion’s role in the public square. Being Patrick, he manages to take this often challenging subject, and weave into ruminations about Palin, the Kennedy clan, and [...]
Bookworm on Dec 04 2010 | Filed under: Christians, Religion
Liam Neeson, who does the voice of Aslan the Lion in the Narnia movies, has upset people by claiming that Aslan could as easily be Allah or Buddha as he could be Christ: Ahead of the release of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader next Thursday, Neeson said: ‘Aslan symbolises a Christ-like figure but he [...]
Bookworm on Oct 24 2010 | Filed under: Hollywood, Leftist morality, Religion
The Chris Coons-Christine O’Donnell debate over the First Amendment has cast into stark relief the fact that the Left believes the First Amendment’s purpose is to keep religious people out of the public square. I’ve blogged on this point before, so I won’t belabor it. I’ll only say briefly that the Amendment’s language, the historical [...]
Bookworm on Oct 19 2010 | Filed under: Constitution, Media matters, Religion
Two of my absolute favorite political writers, Peter Wehner and Jennifer Rubin, have chastised O’Donnell for her recently reported constitutional error. I think that, perhaps, they’re being unfair. It’s clear from reading the news reports that the Constitutional portion of the debate was intended to be a pile-up on O’Donnell: Also during the debate, O’Donnell [...]
Bookworm on Oct 19 2010 | Filed under: Religion
I have to admit to being a little suspicious of an AP report that has O’Donnell appropriately saying that there’s nothing in the constitution about separation of church and state (that, as you know, comes from a letter Jefferson wrote), but then states that she does not know that the 1st Amendment says that Congress [...]
Bookworm on Sep 17 2010 | Filed under: Islam, Leftist morality, Multiculturalism, Religion
You’ve all heard by now about the group of Massachusetts school children taken to a mosque where they were taught utterly fallacious history about Islam and America, and then led in prayer: A mosque spokesperson is seen teaching the children that in Mohammed’s 7th century Arabia women were allowed to vote, while in America women [...]
Bookworm on Sep 01 2010 | Filed under: Islam, Multiculturalism, Religion
Abercrombie & Fitch is all about “the look.” I mean, the whole point of the store is to get people, especially young people, to cough up money for “the look.” To this end, the ads are soft porn, all aimed at showing the ultimate sexy cool. Have I mentioned that I hate the whole Abercrombie [...]
Bookworm on Aug 30 2010 | Filed under: Free speech, Gun control, Religion
In the debate over the Ground Zero Mosque, the Left’s trump card has been the language in the First Amendment stating that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” All of us correctly understand this to mean that government cannot create a state faith, nor can it dictate the religious tenets of [...]
Bookworm on May 20 2010 | Filed under: Free speech, Islam, Muslim violence, Religion
Sometimes, to their creator’s dismay, ideas take on a life of their own. In the wake of Comedy Central’s decision to censor a South Park episode that didn’t actually draw Mohamed, but merely suggested the possibility of doing so, Molly Norris came up with the idea of “everybody draw Mohamed Day.” Then, terrified by the [...]
Bookworm on Apr 06 2010 | Filed under: Christians, Religion
Wolf Howling has put together just a stellar post about the ongoing attacks on the Catholic church (along with a very nice link to yours truly). If this is a subject that interests you — and it should, whether or not you’re a Catholic, because it goes to attacks on a pillar of Western civilization [...]
Bookworm on Apr 04 2010 | Filed under: Religion
The media is making hay of the pedophilia scandal involving the Catholic Church. I think that Leftists see issue this as the single brick, down at the bottom of the wall, that, if pulled at hard enough, will bring the whole edifice tumbling down. Just as Jews are persecuted because they symbolize justice (whether or [...]
Bookworm on Apr 04 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Education, Health, Religion
Readers of my blog know that one of my personal bête noires is liberal indoctrination in public schools. I blog about it frequently. My last outing on that subject was here, and I’ll get back to that in a little bit. First, though, I’d like you to see how one public school teacher saw fit [...]
Bookworm on Apr 01 2010 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Religion
Shortly after I started practicing law, the California State Bar decided mandated that all lawyers must comply with annual “Minimum Continuing Legal Education” (“MCLE”) requirement. I was instantly incensed, because it was immediately obvious to me that this had nothing to do with improving the practice of law and everything to do with providing a [...]
Bookworm on Mar 15 2010 | Filed under: Religion
I went to church yesterday, as I periodically do when one of my children performs at a church service. Since I don’t take communion, I can sit in the pew and watch people as they file back from the experience. Some look businesslike, some contemplative, some uplifted and some, interestingly, look self-righteous. It’s the latter [...]
Bookworm on Feb 24 2010 | Filed under: Israel, Religion
Brutally Honest brought to my attention the fact that the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUSA) has released a statement denouncing Israel in terms that a Hamas member or Ahmadinejad could easily love: The Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUSA) is about to release a report which denounces Israel as a “racist” nation [...]
Bookworm on Jan 30 2010 | Filed under: Military, Religion
On the subject of the “secular humanism religion” that guides liberals, it’s informative to read this quotation from William Kristol, writing about Obama’s sudden imperative need to do away with Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in the American military: But the repeal is something that Obama campaigned on. He believes in it. But with all due [...]
Bookworm on Jan 30 2010 | Filed under: Government, Religion
I got a very hysterical form letter from Americans United for Separation of Church and State. What’s impressive about it is that Barry Lynn, the Executive Director who purportedly authored this fevered screed, is totally uninformed about the nature of America’s Constitutional mandates regarding religion. Here’s what the First Amendment says: Congress shall make no [...]
Bookworm on Jan 05 2010 | Filed under: Religion
It’s always interesting to hear my husband, a militant atheist, and me, a respectful agnostic/atheist, talk about the Bible to the kids. Today, my husband tackled the story of the sacrifice of Isaac. He told the kids that the whole point of the story is to remind religious people that they have to be blindly [...]
Bookworm on Jan 04 2010 | Filed under: England, Europe, Religion
There’s been a fair amount of talk lately about Brit Hume’s “come to Jesus” suggestion to Tiger: I don’t have a whole lot to say about that, other than it goes a long way to explaining why Hume left the MSM. Not only could he not say that when he worked for ABC, he’d probably [...]
Bookworm on Dec 21 2009 | Filed under: Britain, England, Religion
Two views of moral behavior, one from the source, and one from an English divine: God: Thou shalt not steal. (Exodus 20:15) A priest in England: It is far better for people desperate during the recession to shoplift than turn to ‘prostitution, mugging or burglary’. It is true that, under Jewish law, Jews in extremis [...]
Bookworm on Dec 03 2009 | Filed under: Religion
Don Quixote and I were at the local mall. The mall was getting ready for the shopping season, and it has some special events planned. It even had a sign: If you’re like DQ and me, you realize that something is missing from the sign: there’s no mention of the actual holiday being celebrated, with [...]
Bookworm on Nov 09 2009 | Filed under: Religion
The Reluctant Scribe is my Dear Friend, and I am his. I may not be blessed with faith, but I am blessed with friends. All of which means that I can only hope that the Abou Ben Adhem approach to God works for me.
Bookworm on Oct 30 2009 | Filed under: Congress, Democrats, Health, Religion
Jack, the ExPreacherman, emailed me a great joke: During a visit to the mental asylum, I asked the Director “How do you determine whether or not a patient should be institutionalized?” “Well,” said the Director, “we fill up a bathtub. Then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask [...]
