NEWS NEAR YOU PetersburgVolunteers are needed for Saturday’s fall Appomattox River cleanup. The regional effort is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Lower Appomattox River, the cities of Petersburg and Hopewell, and Richard Bland College. Cleanup activities will be held at four locations along the Appomattox in the Tri-Cities area …
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I am happy with this result to my participation in The Euthyphro Dilemma online thingy, and why shouldn’t I be? Well, then again, much depends on the meaning of “tensions”: You claimed that there are moral standards independent of God’s will. This claim sits uneasily with the widely held belief that any being that counts as God must have the ability to obligate through its commands: in other words, that it is necessarily morally wrong to disobey a command given by God.
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One atheist pronounced my column two weeks ago “good,” but the overwhelming reaction from nonbelievers ranged from “rather unsettling” to “toxic shock.” The column noted that a recent study found that nonbelievers know more basic facts about religion than believers, but I questioned whether the “New Atheists” really understand religion itself.
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What sort of God do you believe in?
When it comes to religion, Ned Flanders generally steals all the thunder for references to faith and The Simpsons . L’Osservatore Romano , the Vatican’s daily newspaper, shook things up for a day, offering some quality fodder for religion blogs by declaring Homer Simpson as Catholic.
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Stop the presses! A Catholic Homer
Some time soon England will ordain women as bishops. It is just a matter of time, and time is as always of the essence, because in England time without the decision to ordain women as Bishops is time wasted
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The The Sky Will Not Fall and Women Will be Bishops in The Church of England
Wellcome Collection Things posted a photo: I gave these things to my ex-boyfriend in the latter part of our relationship. He put them in the envelope and left them in my room a few weeks after we’d broken up. It was the same day that the first person I was seeing after that came back to my house.
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Things that I gave to my ex-boyfriend
Wellcome Collection Things posted a photo: This is probably about the 12th draft of these pages – from a manuscript at present of ca. 300 pages – the pencil notations are today’s. Done in tube and then upstairs in library before the next print out
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draft typescript of a section, chapter or essay in the fictionalised voice of S.T. Coleridge
Wellcome Collection Things posted a photo: Fresh from the avocado, I carved pretty patterns and designs into the stone on a glorious summer’s day. This reminds me of a summer long gone and youth never lost.
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Two halves of an engraved avocado stone
Wellcome Collection Things posted a photo: Twelve sets from twelve territories, each with saucers and spoons as presented. Sourced to see how a humble ‘cuppa’ is presented across the world. UK, Italy, Switzerland, India, Thailand, Hong Kong, Philippines, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Atlantic Ocean, USA
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Milk no sugar. Where do you take yours?
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (UPI) — Nearly twice as many Republican poll respondents in the United States as Democrats said Islam encourages violence, a Pew survey indicated.
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Poll indicates animus toward Islam