Here’s another incident of mandatory religion in the Air Force (HT: Metacatholic).
Besides the fact that it is quite improper for the Air Force to provide mandatory religious indoctrination, this program clearly denigrates the faith of many who would disagree with a number of elements of the presentation.
Laura links to a new site on creation and evolution written by someone she knows, and I wanted to promote the link to an actual post. I must say that I have substantial areas of disagreement with the post she directly links on thermodynamics, but I’m so involved on the theological side right now, which…
… an excellent short article by Geoffrey Lentz.
Whether you’re using an argument against someone’s position, or dealing with application of a text, try it out against yourself. As in X said A contradicting Y who said B. Response: “X has been known to lie/be wrong.” Would you accept “Y has been known to lie/be wrong” if you held position B?
Via Steve Matheson (one of the NCSE Steve’s), I found Clashing Culture, which looks like it will be a great group blog involving atheists and Christians discussing science and religion. I look forward to reading it regularly.
This is an announcement from my company, but the technology is very interesting. Books on demand has gone to a new level.
. . . by Bruce Alderman
I’m not sure I agree it’s disgusting, although it may be unwise in a US forces context (even on British soil!).
I was a British MOD civil servant for seven years, and was regularly disappointed by the Buddhist content of most of our management training – occasionally explicit.
And that’s before someone decided Neuro Linguistic Programming was the way to go. “Hypnotism for Managers”, as one participant put it.