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Archive for August 14th, 2007

This Blog is Rated PG

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

According to the site that does the ratings:
This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:
death (6x) hell (1x)
By including that information above, the counts for “death” and “hell” jump to 7x and 2x respectively. Actually, 8x and 3x because of that sentence. Anyway, I wonder if that bumps me up to [...]

The Death of Atheism

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

There’s an intriguing article in First Things this morning from Joseph Bottum. In it, he argues that the recent surge of books on atheism does not represent the vitality of this philosophy; rather, it is indicative of its death throes:
In Michael’s view, there’s an odd defensiveness about all these books—as though they were a sign [...]