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Varieties of Creationism

December 4th, 2007 · by John · 4 Comments

I’ve got a butt-load of reading to do tonight (hoping to fit in some Spe Salvi on top of everything else), so post-writing time is limited. For the time being, I’ll point you all to this fascinating Wikipedia article on Creationism. It (and its Wikipedia neighbors) bring up a few points that are […]

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Why Believers shouldn’t be Troubled by Pullman’s Golden Compass

December 4th, 2007 · by John · 4 Comments

Or, at the very least, an argument that most anti-Pullman activists probably haven’t even looked at the book:
The trilogy has the Church as the antagonist. Not religious belief in general. If any “message” may be derived, it’s that powerful religious organisation who is above the law and morally degraded (murder is no problem for them) […]

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