tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post115836856169562648..comments2024-03-15T01:11:32.832-07:00Comments on Bardiac: Poetry Blogging and Problems of ChristianityBardiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1158454379833712742006-09-16T17:52:00.000-07:002006-09-16T17:52:00.000-07:00Technical note:You ought to be able to use the <...Technical note:<BR/><BR/>You ought to be able to use the <pre></pre> tag set as well. Anything inside the <pre> (preformatted ) tags should display with the spacing you've indicated. In other words, whitespace will be respected/not compacted.wilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07916774745613441512noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1158428423041398532006-09-16T10:40:00.000-07:002006-09-16T10:40:00.000-07:00I saw the stage version of "Nickle and Dimed" in M...I saw the stage version of "Nickle and Dimed" in Minneapolis a few years ago, Ehrenreich was there that night, having just given a talk about the book. <BR/><BR/>I think this book is better than her most recent one.Inside the Philosophy Factoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12255753259090709877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1158423757914773142006-09-16T09:22:00.000-07:002006-09-16T09:22:00.000-07:00I used to worry about preaching my faith (which is...I used to worry about preaching my faith (which is, well, faithlessness -- I'm an apostate -- a socialist atheist enlightenment humanities professor) -- but shit. Why should I not? It is the truth as I know it. I tell them this is what I know. I cite my sources: I believe the world is this old because James Hutton told us this, I believe you should act like this because Kant told us that, so on.<BR/><BR/>Unlike, for instance, their pastor, who cites the magic sky bunny. Do it or God will burn you in hell forever.<BR/><BR/>Or Rush, who tells them that if they don't believe that he says to believe they're evil idiots like those lie-brals.<BR/><BR/>We have to speak, or what other voices do they hear?<BR/><BR/>They'll talk back, I know, but (a) that's good and (b) that doesn't mean they're not hearing us.delagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18197857250240640822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1158419528334277972006-09-16T08:12:00.000-07:002006-09-16T08:12:00.000-07:00I think the "board" refers to the altar table, alt...I think the "board" refers to the altar table, although I don't have any of my books with me to double-check the notes.<BR/><BR/>Personally, the problem I have is negotiating between religious and secular students. I expected to have more religious students at my current location than at my previous one, but so far that doesn't seem to be the case at all. So when my secular students make sweeping and inaccurate generalizations about "religion" or "Christianity," I try always to explain the variety of opinions that exist on a given issue, or the variety of different religious traditions.<BR/><BR/>But unfortunately, my religious students aren't always the help in this endeavour that I might wish--as far as they're concerned, THEIR Christianity is the only one! <BR/><BR/>It's a problem with Chaucer--none of my students can believe that he's actually a sincere Christian--as it is with Herrick. Hypocrisy, my students all understand. Different varieties of religiosity? Not so much.Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1158407486351169712006-09-16T04:51:00.000-07:002006-09-16T04:51:00.000-07:00As someone who went into college a Christian, and ...As someone who went into college a Christian, and came out not a non-Christian yet, but on the way to having a much more complicated relationship to Christianity, and then none at all, I'd say -- who knows what will happen with those students! Some things professors said to me about religion and faith were hugely influential, although they probably never knew it.Rebecca H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10825532162727473112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1158403298612875132006-09-16T03:41:00.000-07:002006-09-16T03:41:00.000-07:00Quick fix for the period problem: replace each per...Quick fix for the period problem: replace each period with a non-breaking space: "ampersandnbsp;", where "ampersand" = "&". For small, irregular numbers of spaces I actually prefer this to CSS and other fancy fixes.<BR/><BR/>See <A HREF="http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/reference/special_characters/" REL="nofollow">here</A> for more on special characters.Bill Hookerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00366270586730870964noreply@blogger.com