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Secular Sunday – Chocolate Crosses

Saw a supply of these in the Minot Wal-Mart a couple years ago and couldn’t decide whether to laugh, be offended (even as a non-Christian) or marvel at how crass capitalism can be sometimes! “Hey kids, enjoy this chocolate cross that represents where a man died for your sins!” “Oh, yummy!”

¶ Posted 05 April 2015 § Humour § MemoryLane § SecularSunday § United States ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: economics, food, holiday, unitedstates

Regina’s Status As Fly-Over Country Confirmed #yqrcc #yqr

When I was in England on exchange in 1995, I would sometimes go to the college library and read the UK’s national papers. I still remember looking at the Travel section of The Weekend Times and seeing an ad for a “Cross-Canada Adventure”. After landing in the maritimes, you would take a coach through Quebec and […]

¶ Posted 27 January 2015 § Censorship § Humour § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: economics, health, saskatchewan

How Secular Parenting Stacks Up

Pretty well actually… I could basically cut & paste the whole article as it’s all relevant but here are a few of my favourite sections… The results of such secular child-rearing are encouraging. Studies have found that secular teenagers are far less likely to care what the “cool kids” think, or express a need to […]

¶ Posted 25 January 2015 § Family § SecularSunday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: philosophy

#JeSuisCharlie (And Some Tangents About Language, The Nature of Offense and the Unintended Consequences of Trigger Warnings)

Trigger Warning: This essay contains ideas you might not agree with. You’ve probably heard about the terrorist criminal attack today in Paris that targeted journalists and cartoonists with a satirical newspaper, Charlie Hebdo. Instead of trying to write an essay to capture my thoughts (since The Onion did a pretty good job on that front already), I’ll […]

¶ Posted 07 January 2015 § Censorship § News § Politics § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: history, language, philosophy

Music Monday – “Take me to church/I’ll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies/I’ll tell you my sins and you can sharpen your knife “

Saw this guy on Saturday Night Live last week and he blew me away. At first, a song called “Take Me To Church” with a refrain of “Amen, amen” throughout might seem like a typical religious song. But listen to the lyrics a little closer (or just read the excerpt from the chorus I used […]