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Monthly Archives: August 2011
One more on religion-and-politics for the day
When the Portuguese persuaded the Vatican to give them the right to appoint bishops to Kongo’s church, the bishops, always Portuguese, refused to ordain enough Kongolese priests to run the church. The kings of Kongo appealed to Rome and, in … Continue reading
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Problems with Science Aren’t New
Just to reiterate, the problems I discussed in my last post are not meant to cause despair. Science has had these problems since at least 1830, when Charles Babbage wrote his Reflections on the Decline of Science in England. Here … Continue reading
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People Have Never Liked Religious Leaders, etc.
Yet another example of an overblown headline based on a relatively anodyne academic study: Americans have significantly less confidence in their religious leaders than they did a generation ago and more than two-thirds would prefer they not dabble in politics, … Continue reading
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Persecution and Demographic Size
More from Pew: Adherents of the world’s two largest religious groups, Christians and Muslims, who together comprise more than half of the global population, were harassed in the largest number of countries. Over the three-year period studied, incidents of either government … Continue reading
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What are they afraid of?
From the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life: Conflict between religious groups, by contrast, does not loom as a particularly large concern for most of the evangelical leaders surveyed. A majority says that conflict between religious groups is either … Continue reading
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More on Addiction
Apropos of this, here’s this from Paul Graham: As far as I know there’s no word for something we like too much. The closest is the colloquial sense of “addictive.” That usage has become increasingly common during my lifetime. And … Continue reading
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More on Movie Scripts
The post about movie scripts got a little long (sorry), but I wanted to share an anecdote that is hopefully more illustrative than boastful. Several years ago on my first trip to DC, I had the opportunity to visit the … Continue reading
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Tagged defense, Dod, entertainment, film, fun, government, military, movies, rhetoric
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Reading in Graduate School
Caveat: this is a skill that I am working to develop over the next few years, not one that I have mastered. Reading in graduate school is different from that required for undergraduate coursework. This is true not only of … Continue reading
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