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21 Oct 09

Christian Popa, "Are Americans Faking Religiosity?," reasonWeekly (Oct. 15, 2009)

The argument is that if you take the number of people who affirm on surveys that they attend church weekly, you end up with a figure much too high to be accommodated in all American churches put together. The weakness seems to be that of course we don't really know how many people can fit into all the churches, or how many services they hold per week, or whatever. Still, it's an interesting idea.

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20 Oct 09

The Morning Oil: Flannery! (WMA links to two radio broadcasts by Flannery O'Connor)

Bookmarking for future reference. At the moment the service hosting the audio files is dead, so I haven't been able to download them, but another blogger at Black Market Kidneys (http://j.mp/14aQJd) posted mp3 versions. The quality of the conversions isn't great, though, so I'm hoping sometime to be able to get this blogger's WMAs.

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Black Market Kidneys » Flannery O’Connor Audio

Two radio addresses by Flannery O'Connor. These are mp3 versions of the files originally posted at The Morning Oil http://bit.ly/i9hBs

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19 Oct 09

Demographics of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A pretty good resource on U.S. demographic data. Lots of links to Census information and other sources.

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12 Oct 09

RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY: In Guns We Trust

A great piece by historian Jon Pahl reflecting on the murder of Meleanie Hain, the Lebanon, PA mother who became a gun rights cause celebre when she open-carried her loaded pistol at her five-year-old's soccer game. (The local sheriff subsequently revoked her permit for showing "poor judgment; a judge reinstated it.) Hain was recently killed in her home by her husband, who was also a gun enthusiast.

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04 Oct 09

Healthcare reform rationing ‘precisely what the Nazis did,’ Land says

Quotations from Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religoius Liberty Commission, speaking to the "God and Country Banquet" held by the Christian Coalition of Florida. What he said: "I want to put it to you bluntly. What they are attempting to do in healthcare, particularly in treating the elderly, is not something like what the Nazis did. It is precisely what the Nazis did... Let's remember... the first 10,000 victims of the Holocaust were not Jews, they were mentally handicapped German children who were gassed and burned in ovens because they were considered to have... lives unworthy of life... [The healthcare debate is] about whether we are going to continue to believe our founding documents, which say that we believe that all people are equal and we're created in the image of our Creator and that we have certain unalienable rights -- and among these is the right to life... [At stake] is the definition of a human being... We are faced with what I call 'biological bigotry' and it is every bit as pernicious, every bit as evil, every bit as destructive as the racial and ethnic bigotry that has plagued us in the past... There is loose within the liberal culture which dominates the Democratic Party and dominates our government at present, a biological bigotry that is feeding a euthanasia mentality."

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Zondervan - Holy Bible: Stock Car Racing

Seen on the @religion_book Twitter stream. From the product description: "For fans of stock car racing, this Bible is a must-have. It features commentary and testimonies from some of racing’s most famous names, as well as full-color action photos of some of racing’s most famous faces."

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Zondervan - Holy Bible: Stock Car Racing

Seen on the @religion_book Twitter stream. From the product description: "For fans of stock car racing, this Bible is a must-have. It features commentary and testimonies from some of racing’s most famous names, as well as full-color action photos of some of racing’s most famous faces."

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20 Sep 09

Marcus Buckingham: What's Happening To Women's Happiness?

"Over the last 40 years or so, life is not trending toward more fulfillment for women. Life is, in most ways we can measure, becoming more draining instead."

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