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Re: Did Republicans deliberately sabotage the economy?

exmodia — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 15:22:21 -0000

There is a singular tunnel vision in the Republican Party at all levels...from their politicians to their proletariat lemmings...

Re: Has Physics Made Philosophy and Religion Obsolete? - Ross Andersen - Technology - The Atlantic

exmodia — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:25:42 -0000

The last novel concept that religion gave the world was the condensation of multiple gods into one.

Re: Map of the Day: Bestiality-Friendly States

exmodia — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:56:56 -0000

Sex makes you people in America nuts, doesn't it.

Re: http://blog.fabulis.com/post/1986782270

exmodia — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 02:23:03 -0000

LOL @ "Oprah House"

Re: New Cher Dance Remixes!

exmodia — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 03:42:24 -0000

I'm shocked and apalled. These remixes suck. Especially at the Dave Aude remix. Hell, I'm shocked and apalled at the Almighty remix. I expected better.

Let's hope the lesser known, but infinitely better Brazilian house remixers will come up with better. (I know they will.)

Re: http://blog.fabulis.com/post/1676268771

exmodia — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 03:39:57 -0000

Gayness was not born in Chelsea, unless you are not a native NY'er. I remember when my mom worked in Chelsea. Lots of drug addicts, but no Gays. Gayness was "born" in Greenwich Village, if you want to be that fanciful. 1969. Christopher Street riots. I wasn't there, but I've been told.

Re: Travolta’s Trysts

exmodia — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:52:02 -0000

But I agree, just like Ricky...we knew about you Johnny.

Re: Travolta’s Trysts

exmodia — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:50:59 -0000

If you are going to be so bold as to do it where people can see you, you brought on yourself!

Re: Losing Their Religion

exmodia — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:53:40 -0000

I think that the simplistic belief in the notion of the rapture is one of the main reasons for the ultimate dogmatic failure of the evangelical movement. There is no biblical reason for that belief. None. The whole idea was created by bible students in Los Angeles around the turn of the last century and caught on in the minds of those very same kinds of people that have little knowledge of the Gospels.

This doctored (and outright false) doctrinal approach to Christianity has found less than a favourable reception among legions of well-educated Christians. And our population continues to become better educated than previous generations. This religious snake-oil and evangelicals' Luddite approach to social, scientific, and political issues have sealed their fate. They have thus really turned their backs on the roots of Christianity, which was a radical social and political break from traditional Judaism.

Catholicism's demise, however, is somewhat different. That Church is mired in issues of gender, sexual, doctrinal and simmering ethnic and racial supremacy. It is no secret that Hispanic Catholics are the fastest growing segment of the Church in North America. Yet the Church continues to hope and pray that traditional Hispanic Catholicism will be kept in check while future generations of Hispanic Catholics are taught the ways of Northern European Catholicism. Hispanic Catholics have always maintained a heavy mystical component in their brand and practice of Catholicism. This has historically been treated with suspicion, disdain and repression in the larger Church. Hispanics have fused Catholic ritual and practice with a plethora of traditional beliefs from African to Native American. Many have left the Catholic Church for evangelical movements that more closely mirror their spiritual experience. The Catholic Church has responded half-heartedly by sanctioning the "charismatic" movement which aims to marry evangelical religious practice with Roman Catholic dogma (and official Church control).

By creating common cause with the evangelical movement's political priorities, they have also alienated Northern European Catholics whose educational and political sophistication is radically different from more conservative Roman Catholics from the developing world. This is a split within the Church that is rarely discussed. But the Church will find itself facing the competing social, political and doctrinal priorities of two disparate groups of Roman Catholics in the United States.

Re: Help using Disqus with custom Blogger templates

exmodia — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:59:27 -0000

pretty crappy if you ask me. first it failed to do what it claimed. OK, so i have a heavily customized blogger template. fine. but then when I come here to customize it manually (like everything else I've done on blogger) the links are gone.

nice.