Month: March 2007

2007-03-05 Monday

While snowed in this past weekend, I was determined to make a pair of knit and felted slippers.  I failed.  While I intend to wash the second pair a few more times, I give up and will not be knitting any more slippers.  Really.  Giving up is so very hard to do! * Rumor has it both lakeshore homes on my street sold over the weekend.  As did the house I went and looked at. What’s that mean?  Probably nothing.  I just can’t get excited about moving.  Perhaps that’s because I’ve not found the right property to move to.  Or perhaps that’s because I’m pretty happy and content just where I am.  I must admit, Mr.B makes it pretty easy to stay.  I think I would have painted a sign on cardboard and planted it in the front yard had I been the one to do all the shoveling this past weekend. 

Here’s a Thought

“People are like stained-glass windows.  They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, psychiatrist and writer

Here’s a Thought

“People are like stained-glass windows.  They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, psychiatrist and writer

“The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward

Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes.  He critiques God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence. In so doing, he makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just irrational, but potentially deadly.  Dawkins has fashioned an impassioned, rigorous rebuttal to religion, to be embraced by anyone who sputters at the inconsistencies and cruelties that riddle the Bible, bristles at the inanity of “intelligent design”, or agonizes over fundamentalism in the Middle East or Middle America.

“The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward

Dawkins turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes.  He critiques God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence. In so doing, he makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just irrational, but potentially deadly.  Dawkins has fashioned an impassioned, rigorous rebuttal to religion, to be embraced by anyone who sputters at the inconsistencies and cruelties that riddle the Bible, bristles at the inanity of “intelligent design”, or agonizes over fundamentalism in the Middle East or Middle America.