I’ve been out of town for three weeks, something I don’t like to announce to the entire Internet while it’s actually going on, and am back now. My blogging fingers are rusty, so I’m going to warm up with some links.
Mark D. Roberts discusses Christopher Hitchens’ book about the poison of religion. I like the way it ends:
I don’t doubt that Hitchens’s tendency to call his opponents "stupid" and to label a highly-regarded theologian as an "ignoramus" helps to sell lots of books, just like he said to me. And I expect it does get more attention than a respectful and reasonable approach. But I’m just not convinced that the world is any better off with more ridicule-filled books or with more people paying attention because derision is more interesting than respect. Would that we could learn to disagree about ideas without disparaging each other. This, I believe, would in fact make the world a better place.
Amy Welborn points to a new blog by an evangelical who is considering the claims of Catholicism and Orthodoxy.
Heather of Dooce fame is collecting stories of amusing encounters with car thieves. I used to have a 12-year-old Oldsmobile Eighty Eight (not the same as a 1988 Oldsmobile) that I left unlocked all the time so that no one would break the windows in an attempt to steal it or my worthless stuff. I came outside one morning to discover that it had been rifled through. The thief made off with the change from my ash tray and nothing else.
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