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What Do Creationists and Holocaust Deniers Have In Common?
Yesterday, in a conversation on Facebook, I asked my cousin Bryan, a young and exceptionally gifted Presbyterian preacher, a series of purposely provocative questions about the scientific validity of creationism and intelligent design. Bryan, unlike most people on both sides of this debate, possesses an astonishingly open mind and empathetic view on this subject, a subject that, as I subsequently learned, is fraught with rhetorical landmines, a subject that lends itself to insulting stereotyping and generalizations, and as Bryan aptly put it, “morally reprehensible analogies.” Bryan and I are both relatively close in age, and although we are members of the same loyal family, we approach…
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Captioning The Top Six Best Lines From James Varney’s Editorial On Jindal
From The Times-Picayune: 1. “Foremost – not least in Jindal’s mind, most likely – is a charismatic, articulate spokesman.” James Varney 2. “This process is more difficult for conservatives than liberals because the scribblers who craft “the narrative” are anti-conservative.(The Boston Globe’s online headline on the Jindal speech is an excellent example.).” James Varney 3. “When an election hinges on fewer than a half-million votes in a handful of states, and the opposition has painted you there as a dog-hating, filthy rich, tax-dodging, cancer-stricken-wife killing felon, well, that’s a steep hill to climb.” James Varney 4. “Yet in terms of what is being offered, Jindal…
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An Extended, In-Depth Conversation With Zack Kopplin (Part Two)
What I failed to mention in my first post is that Zack’s efforts have truly gone national: There was, first, an extended story about Zack posted on the website io9, titled, “How 19-year-old Activist Zack Kopplin Is Making Hell for Louisiana Creationists.” Then, more recently, Zack has been featured in The Houston Chronicle, Patheos, Public Radio International, The Sensuous Curmudgeon, Huffington Post, NBC News, ThinkProgress, The Blaze, and The Times Picayune, among others. And fortunately, the list keeps growing. Here is Part Two of our extended conversation. Click here to listen.
CenLamar | Est. 2006
