jeremiad – noun
a prolonged lamentation or mournful complaint.
Archive for September, 2009
jer-uh-mahy-uhd, -ad
Posted in Uncategorized on 28 September 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Karen Armstrong’s “Case for God”
Posted in Uncategorized on 28 September 2009 | 2 Comments »
I recently commented on the Wall Street Journal article which pitted Richard Dawkins against Karen Armstrong. I hadn’t heard of Ms. Armstrong before that time, but her name came up again today on NPR.org. It seems she’s written a book called The Case for God, which seems to be an extension of her thesis in [...]
Home Owners
Posted in Uncategorized on 15 September 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today, Michael and I got the keys to our very first house! Horray!!
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Man vs. God: Wall Street’s Take
Posted in Philosophy and Theology, tagged Darwinian evolution, Karen Armstrong, man vs. god, Richard Dawkins on 13 September 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In today’s Wall Street Journal “Weekend Journal” two articles were placed side by side, with the title “MAN vs. GOD” in large red print between them. Here’s the link.
Richard Dawkins on the left, speaking for atheistic Darwinist evolutionists, doesn’t say anything really new: “We know, as certainly as we know anything in science, that this [...]
Dee-fen-uh-STREY-shuhn
Posted in Literary on 12 September 2009 | Leave a Comment »
defenestration : the act of throwing a thing or esp. a person out of a window.