you don’t replace something with nothing

very interesting study from Pew Forum about the religious views of Americans. The religious beliefs and practices of Americans do not fit neatly into conventional categories. A new poll by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life finds that large numbers of Americans engage in multiple religious practices, mixing elements of diverse […]

you don’t replace something with nothing

As I have said before several times and as I will keep saying as long as I am allowed, you don’t replace something with nothing. A post-christian, post-modern culture is not one of rational empirical scientific harmony. It is one of superstition, paranoia and worship of men. present case in point Maggie Mertens of Smith […]

again, you don’t replace something with nothing

here is the fourth installment in a sometimes series of posts. Mollie Hemingway has an excellent column on this phenomenon. Take some time this weekend and read it over. here is a tease: The reality is that the New Atheist campaign, by discouraging religion, won’t create a new group of intelligent, skeptical, enlightened beings. Far […]

you don’t replace something with nothing

I posted this briefly last night, then I took it down. I was torn because I don’t want to be heard to be saying that being a follower of Christ necessarily means being a political conservative. Nonetheless, I do think the following post is a good example of the fact that people have a built […]

are you serious?

How many times have I said that you can’t replace something with nothing. Taking christianity out of mainstream dialogue/culture/practice does not leave non-religious secularism. Instead, the human religious impulse gets directed toward the worship of nature (environmentalism) or more directly toward the worship and exaltation of man himself. Check this out if you don’t believe […]

“fertile mix of science and religion”

or as I like to say, you don’t replace something with nothing. here is a peek, but go check out the rest of the interview. KLEFFEL: Armstrong sees the role of religion as a guiding force for ethical behavior. Margaret Atwood brings that notion to life in her newest novel, “The Year of the Flood.” […]

Man is homo religiosus

or as I keep saying, “you don’t replace something with nothing.” the blue people movie is more evidence that in our modern culture spirituality is fine, but Christianity or other specific organized religion is off-limits. Jonah has an interesting piece up called “Avatar and the Faith Instinct.” a bit to tease you over there to […]

another one

yet another shining entry into the increasingly crowded “you don’t replace something with nothing files.” Just wow. I don’t know how it is possible to even parody something so incredibly extreme and foolish. Hat tip to Jonah Goldberg. As he says, there is “nothing remotely creepy” about this, nothing at all. UPDATE: the reformed chicks […]

like I said

you don’t replace something with nothing. here is another manifestation of the phenomenon. hat tip to the anchoress UPDATE: in case you were like me and wondering if this was real or The Onion, Reason Magazine’s vote is “real.”

the creepiness continues

the phenomenon that I made note of several times in the last year continues. You just don’t replace something with nothing. The latest entry is this book. Like Vitamin Z says, I am not one to imply in the least that BO is the anti-Christ or anything near that, but this little book for kids […]