Daily Archives: August 27, 2011

On Clement of Alexandria: Platonist strawmen are unbecoming, @ejoelwatts

His Joelness has once again started sipping the kool-aid with an arbitrary blurb about Plato not being a Christian. At one point, in an unbecoming manner, Joel “Olsteen” Watts, claims, “There is a certain known Biblioblogger out there who, following … Continue reading

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The Ron Paulinization of Sarah Palin

I wrote this post to piss off conservatives. No, I really did. Why? I realize that the loudest voices in the Republican Party right now are all military conservatives (foreign policy-wise). According to the Trinitarian logic of the Reagan coalition, … Continue reading

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Roland Boer on The Parable of the Talents (Minas)

Roland Boer is one of my favorite critical theorists, and I can’t wait for his next book to come out. For those interested in theology and economics, I thought this quote was a classic: “Further, in an economy where one … Continue reading

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