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11/20/09 11:44 AM Scott McMahan  | Internet    • Posted 24 hours ago • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Idle Hands: Some Puritan Advice for the Unemployed 9 comments This is a baffling op-ed piece (not a news article) because I can't figure out what the author is trying to say. I don't see any actual advice for the unemployed in it. If you can parse and understand social-science gobbledygook like "the Puritans gave America a pedagogy of work and an attitude toward life that upsets the modern notion that a person's occupation equals his value" more power to you, but it doesn't explain how to feed yourself when you don't have a job. 11/19/09 11:49 AM Scott McMahan  | Internet    • Posted 48 hours ago • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Atheist author Philip Pullman rewrites the Bible 6 comments "He knows it will be controversial" - well, DUH! He knows the only way anyone will pay any attention to him is if he engages in outright blasphemy. When Pastor Ian Brown put his sermon about Pullman online (a good listen if you haven't heard it) I found an electronic text of Pullman's novels and tried reading some - regardless of the subject-matter of the novels, this stuff is a slog to try to read. He is not a very good writer. If it wasn't for his self-made controversies and the anti-religious bias of Hollywood, he wouldn't have attracted any attention at all. 11/17/09 10:50 AM Scott McMahan  | Internet    • Posted 4 days ago • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Church of England: don't use credit cards this... 6 comments "Using cash rather than credit cards" - what if the item you want is not available where you can pay cash? Some items must be ordered over the Internet, due to local unavailability, and I am sure not going to risk my debit card for that. I think this advice is unsafe. I'd much rather have my CC number at risk where a thief could charge $50 than a debit card where a thief could wipe out my entire checking account. (Sure, you might eventually get all that straightened out with the bank and prove it was fraud, but you might want to eat before then.) Maybe it's different in the UK. 11/17/09 7:00 AM Scott McMahan  | Internet    • Posted 4 days ago • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: NYTimes: The Evolution of the God Gene 2 comments This is just random speculation which can neither be proved nor disproved, and is why social sciences aren't taken seriously by people in real science. Anyone can take vague bits of evidence and spin any story they want about it. Oddly, if it is true, if religion is "wired into our neural circuitry", it's proof of the total depravity of man - look at what central American religious practices evolved into, such as the Aztech religion. 11/17/09 6:57 AM Scott McMahan  | Internet    • Posted 4 days ago • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Archbishop of Canterbury claims higher taxes would... 5 comments Until he offers proof that higher taxes can "make the world a better place in which to live" this is just uninformed nonsense by someone who does not understand business, economics, and personal finance. Has Rowan Williams ever in his life had a real job he had to work to earn money to feed himself? 11/10/09 2:32 PM Scott McMahan  | Internet    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Framed for Child Porn by a PC Virus 4 comments This article is imprecise. The "computer" virus is a Windows virus. The mainstream media refuses to make this point even though the insecurity of Windows makes these viruses possible. If you want to trust your reputation and family to a product that is fundamentally insecure, that's your choice. As someone who works in the computer industry...I have done some additional digging after hearing Pastor Hammack mention this in his News in Focus recording. I can not find any specific name of a virus responsible. There is a forensics report about this case that is no longer available which would have details, but I can't find it anywhere. I've found two dead links. Loehrs was hired by Fiola, so the report she did is naturally going to portray him as a victim of circumstances beyond his control. Unless I can find information on what this virus is, and how Fiola's computer came to be infected by it, I think we do not have sufficient facts to establish what actually happened and how culpable Fiola actually was. I am going to reserve judgment until I get more information. 11/10/09 11:35 AM Scott McMahan  | Internet    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Did Christianity Cause the Crash? 2 comments Correlation does not imply causation. Because two events are linked in time does not mean one caused the other (the post hoc fallacy, or, in this case, probably the cum hoc fallacy). Just because the prosperity gospel and the housing boom coincided does not mean one caused the other. The media, stubbornly and proudly ignorant of basic reasoning skills, has ignored this truth for ... well, a long time, and constantly pumps out articles like this. I guess getting a sucker punch in at religious types is just icing on the cake. You could make all sorts of outlandish causal relationships out of random correlations. I will be waiting for the "baby boomers caused the great recession" article (if it hasn't already been written). You can also compare the media's absolute fascination with how toothpaste, watching television, vaccines, and almost anything else everyone has done for decades has "caused" all sorts of things. Given a large population, these sorts of correlations will be found. It's like the advanced elderly people who took some medicine a few years ago, and a certain percent died - the media trumpeted this medicine (Alleve?) as the problem, when the same percent of people would have died anyway. 11/10/09 9:08 AM Scott McMahan  | Internet    • Add new comment Sermon: Child Porn by a PC Virus Trevor Hammack 2 comments “ Correction ” The article that Pastor Hammack reads is imprecise: these are not "computer" or "PC" viruses, they're Microsoft Windows viruses. This is an important distinction to make, since the stakes are high. Is the convenience of running a fundamentally insecure operating system that allows these viruses worth ruining you finances, family, reputation, and even going to jail? The choice is yours. 11/7/09 6:09 AM Scott McMahan  | Internet    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: The mother who brought down the Fort Hood killer 4 comments A slightly-built, middle-aged woman... this is on a military base... what were all the soldiers doing? They couldn't stop one man? What are they going to do in combat? I still haven't gotten a handle on what happened yet. Not to take anything away from the civilian for heroism. 11/6/09 8:32 AM Scott McMahan  | Internet    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: 75 Percent of Young Americans Are Unfit for Military... 9 comments For perspective, see Col. Bolger's "Death Ground" p. 28 ff. where he discusses the quality of drafted troops from 1940-73. The people the military wants already volunteer, and beyond that pool there's not much left. 10/27/09 6:09 AM Scott McMahan  | Internet    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: U.S. newspaper circulation plunge accelerates 4 comments In my opinion, I think the fact that both major newspapers (NYT & WSJ) cost EIGHT QUARTERS now is a big factor in the decline. Who has eight quarters per day? I don't know how you'd get that many. (I live in an area where home delivery of these two doesn't exist, and it would take all morning to go to a bookstore and get a paper that wasn't in a rack.) In the 21st century, isn't there anything better than the quarters-only paper rack? What happened to the dollar coin? Circulation is way, way down. I get one paper per week (very early, before anyone would have a chance to buy them), and the rack usually has two papers in it, and a few years ago it was full every morning. Plus the NYT doesn't help itself by publishing its stories early with their RSS feeds. I used to get the education section, but the last time I did I had read all the stories weeks in advance. Not an incentive to buy. 10/26/09 9:44 AM Scott McMahan  | Internet    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Former Scientologists Level Accusations 2 comments See http://xenu.net/ for more details on Scientology. 10/25/09 6:16 AM Scott McMahan  | Internet    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Faith healing on the US taxpayer 1 comment Note how he says "discriminate" - I thought we discriminated in medical practice by making professionals meet certain standards. You can't be a doctor or practice medicine without meeting certain discriminatory criteria, like actually being qualified. If medical reform has to subsidize pseudoscience, junk science, and nonsense like "Christian Science" and faith healing (will Benny Hinn also get tax subsidies?), then there's no point in doing it. Discrimination is not always a bad thing. 10/23/09 6:11 AM Scott McMahan  | Internet    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: 'Missing Link' Primate Fossil Debunked 4 comments Time reveals all hoaxes, but the original perpetrators already made their money. Ads were sold for the documentary up-front, and the book probably has gone out of the remainder bins by now. It's so easy to make money off something like this that there's no reason not to do it. Maybe 6 months later, someone will expose it as a hoax, but who cares? The money has been made by that point. 10/22/09 7:56 AM Scott McMahan  | Internet    • Add new comment Sermon: The Cost of Not Following Christ Paul Washer 2 comments “ John Flavel, The Fountain of Life ” The title of the John Flavel work mentioned in this sermon (and others by Washer) is "The Fountain of Life" and can be found online. The bargain is in "Sermon 3. Opens the Covenant of Redemption betwixt the Father and the Redeemer" in the application "Use 6". By the way, "abatement" is a financial term for reducing the amount owed. This goes along with the bargain, which is expressed in financial terms. Washer always explains it with a non-financial definition. 10/21/09 6:44 AM Scott McMahan  | Internet    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Pope Approves Plan to Bring Anglicans Into the Fold 10 comments "while maintaining many of their distinctive spiritual and liturgical traditions" - I assume this doesn't mean the 39 Articles? (Check out Article 22, 25, etc.) 10/20/09 9:37 AM Scott McMahan  | Internet    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Benny Hinn: 'I Would Not Do This for Money' 3 comments I would remind readers that Hinn is the person who has been recorded, in his own voice, saying he wanted to kill people who disagreed with him. I've heard this recording. A revealing quote: "I think that if I was fooling the people over 35 years of it now, I would be caught already fooling them." Well, actually, he has been repeatedly caught over the years. I can think of several cases where intrepid investigators tracked down "healed" people from Hinn's crusades and TV show (apparently the identity of these people is extremely hard to find) only to find they had not been healed. And fakes like Hinn have been fooling people for a lot longer than 35 years. I think this defense doesn't hold water. "Hinn said he'd like to cut his salary to zero." His salary doesn't matter. I don't know if Hinn's ministry does this, but many ministries have their preacher write a book, and buy the print run up-front (IRS 1099 income), giving the preacher the royalty income, and then they sell (if possible) the book through their ministry. They know how to make money without getting a salary. 10/19/09 8:18 AM Scott McMahan  | Internet    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Joel Osteen appears in 'Success Magazine' 6 comments How many Godly pastors who preach blood redemption and repentance from sin have been on the cover of "Success" magazine? 10/17/09 11:36 AM Scott McMahan  | Internet    • Thread closed • Report abuse News Item: Baptist Church To Celebrate Halloween By Burning... 269 comments Don't forget that this pastor is living in the early 20th century - how do you burn MP3s and PDFs? Even if he burned every Bible he didn't like, big deal, because I have PDFs and eSword of everything he doesn't like, and he can't burn those, and he can't delete them from my computer and so on. Burning books was a bad idea in the 16th century (and before), but it's absolutely nuts now. (I have been looking, but I can find no information on the melting point of a CD. I think it would have to be a pretty hot fire to damage one. I guess he is still using LP records?) 10/17/09 11:33 AM Scott McMahan  | Internet    • Add new comment • Reply to comment • Report abuse News Item: Bible gives woman a reason to rhyme 10 comments Alexander Pope is rolling over in his grave right now... But I would love to see her poetic interpretations of the "and he died" list, and the various "begat" lists.

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