Category Archives: Religion

LQCs: Law & Order, Prayer

Posted on Thursday 9 June 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Who exactly is for law and order? And who thinks prayer really works, and why?

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LQCs: Religious Blame and Feral Pigs

Posted on Wednesday 1 June 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Los Angeles Times, LZ Granderson, 1 Jun 2022: Republicans use ‘God’ to turn tragedies into talking points

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LCQs: Our Eroding Civil Society; Health Update

Posted on Friday 27 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

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LQCs: Children, Guns, and Religion

Posted on Tuesday 24 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

From NYT Letters, printed 21 May 2022: To the Editor: The Republican checklist after a mass shooting: Thoughts and prayers: Check. This is not the time: Check. Let’s not politicize: Check. Guns are not the problem: Check. Just enforce the … Continue reading →

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LQCs: We told you so

Posted on Saturday 14 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Only time for a couple quick links. We told you so.

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LQCs: Science Fiction, Christian Fantasy, and Part B

Posted on Friday 13 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Washington Post, Michael Dirda, 10 Jan 2022: Science fiction — please, let’s not call it ‘sci-fi’ — is more than just a reaction to the present

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LQCs: Sincerity, Norway, the Moral Arc

Posted on Thursday 12 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

OnlySky, Hemant Mehta, 7 May 2022: The Supreme Court should stop taking religious beliefs so seriously, subtitled, “Not every ‘sincerely held religious belief’ is sincerely held. The Supreme Court should admit that.”

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LQCs: KSR; Conservative History

Posted on Wednesday 11 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

NYT, Alexandra Alter, 11 May 2022: A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story is the One Facing Us.’, subtitled: “Kim Stanley Robinson, one of the most acclaimed living science fiction writers, is done with deep space narratives. His … Continue reading →

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LQCs: The Arc of Historical Progress vs. Religious Oppression in the US

Posted on Tuesday 10 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

First, my favorite print magazine The Week, for May 13th, in its “Viewpoint” box on the “Best Columns US” page, quotes Francis Fukuyama in The Wall Street Journal (a newspaper I don’t read). But unlike the similarly found David French … Continue reading →

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LQCs: Whose Religious Freedom?

Posted on Saturday 7 May 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Today’s San Francisco Chronicle has this opinion piece about religious freedom. San Francisco Chronicle, Daniel Bogard and Tana Senn, 6 May 2022: Supreme Court’s Roe ruling would trample the religious freedom of every Jewish American