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gin_and_satori

Charlotte This Morning and Tallahassee Last Week

Mar 31, 2005 10:45

Saving America from usConcord-based Operation Save America has been going to local high schools and staging demonstrations that, according to the group's director, "bring God back into the school." The demonstrations are against homosexuality, abortions and Islam. This has led some people to wonder why the group has a negative outlook, just being ( Read more... )

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williamtwodium March 31 2005, 19:30:44 UTC

He was talking about his book on The Da Vinci Code in class today. He'll be in Toronto on Saturday for a TV interview about it; he's concerned about missing the basketball game.

"I study under Ehrman," I said to myself today. " 'Under' as in 'he looks down on me.' Far down. Because 'I am a pathetic student.' "

gin_and_satori April 1 2005, 17:59:30 UTC

I don't think undergraduate necessarily counts as "studying under," depending on who you're talking to. But if you were a grad student, he would still look down on you. The difference would be that you would get to help in his research if you were "studying under" him in the traditional sense. That's how I understand it anyway.

It would be much more convenient for me if he liked you, Scott. I might try to apply to Chapel Hill again some day.

williamtwodium April 1 2005, 19:20:10 UTC

Yeah, I'm working on that.

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gin_and_satori April 1 2005, 17:54:19 UTC

That would be interesting. I'd have to take a while to learn about religion first. I got the impression that I know much, much less about Religion, Ethics and Philosophy than the typical entering REP student, not having read a drop of Aquinas, Derrida, Durkheim, Hegel, Heidegger, Kant, Levinas, Maimonides, Marx, or Neichtze for example. I have a lot of extracurricular reading to do, and even then I'll probably switch to American Religious History after the first semester.

There are a lot of directions a book like that could take. There are a lot of assumptions people have about both religion and science that it could dispel. We should do that. Mayve we could make a handful of people a little less silly.

keefus March 31 2005, 20:21:29 UTC

that sounds like a pretty noble goal to me.
I didn't even know you had gotten in both schools. congratulations.

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gin_and_satori April 1 2005, 17:20:26 UTC

I had my reasons. There's other shit I'm not telling you either. You'll hear about it when I'm good and ready.