Soldier #1: What about all that preachin’ you do back home, bishop? Don’t you believe in God? Solider #2: Well now I believes in it at the time I was preachin’ it. Hell, now I just believe in pictures of old white men on green paper. Solider #1: That ain’t no way to live. God [...]

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Question: What is the essence and physical referent for community?  I submit: Meals. Culture is closely tied with food, as anyone who has ever traveled the world can testify. The kind of food that is made and the way it is shared is the primordial stuff of culture, which defines communities.  Meals give a reason [...]

Tags: Community, Culture, Eucharist

Tags: Easter

I submit: Libertarians : Conservatives :: Cylons : Humans Ponder that for a minute and consider the following: Libertarians, like Cylons: Resemble their counterparts, but have no soul Are a product of their counterparts weaker moments and lack of foresight Are usually fought off, but occasionally kept around when survival itself is at stake Seek [...]

Tags: Battlestar Galactica, Conservatism, Libertarianism