Wave goodbye to America, say hello to the garden.
Motivation, please come back. I only have several more weeks left of this semester. I'm not asking too much, am I?
I like how relatively straightforward papers seem to take me all night simply because I cannot think of enough to say to fill the quota length of a rough draft ( Read more... )
I like how relatively straightforward papers seem to take me all night simply because I cannot think of enough to say to fill the quota length of a rough draft ( Read more... )
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The thesis of the article by Bill McKibben is essentially that the predominately Christian United States has abandoned the central teaching of Jesus Christ ("love your neighbor as yourself") in favor of some strange brew of individualistic fervor mixed with a lust for violence and death. Certainly, this is an old argument updated with a new and interesting twist (a liberal openly advocating a return to the Word of Christ). I was very intrigued by this premise and had hoped for a compotent and logical elaboration, but that was sadly far from what I got. The strength of the paradox argument soon crumbles under its own weight.
Three quarters of Americans believe the Bible teaches that ( ... )
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the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported last year that the number of households that were “food insecure with hunger” had climbed more than 26 percent between 1999 and 2003.
This number seemed very wrong to me, so I went out and found the truth. I found the USDA report (here) that he references and the relevant part is
The prevalence of food insecurity with hunger among children has remained in the range of 0.5 to 0.7 percent (statistically unchanged) since 1999 ( ... )
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Of course, I agree with you about the statistical errors within the article. Who can argue with the facts?
What I liked about this article was not that, but rather his critque of Americanized Christianity. I believe I've ranted about the rise of commercialized, pre-packaged Christianity at some point or other (if not on LJ, then in real life) and I appreciated this author's pointing it out. I'm tired of the so-called "Christian" Right and their preoccupation with money, money, money and their "I got mine" mentality. Case in point: the highly popular Prayer of Jabez series from several years ago. A whole line of books concerning a rather obscure prayer of a man named Jabez from the OT asking God to increase his land and posessions. What disgusted me so much about these books was their assertions that if you pray that prayer, God is going to give you a whole lotta stuff and you'll be really happy. Amen.
In addition to that are publications in that very same vein or one quite similar, such as the Left Behind ( ... )
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I'd hate to be married to a man as patriarchal as those two.
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