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Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Links to Your World, Tuesday May 1

"Chilled" by creepy people isn't just a metaphor, according to a study.

 

The Secularization of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Reportedly boasting one of the world's highest IQs and unapologetically admitting a 3-hour a day addiction to online porn, Rick Rosner is either a very clever publicity hound or a sad illustration that intelligence and wisdom are two separate things.

 

Robert P. Jones of WaPo suggests that Millennials may be disconnecting from the Christian churches of their childhood because they perceive churches as "anti-gay." But take a look at the chart in his article and you'll see hardly a dip among evangelical Millennials and a precipitious drop in churches anachronistically called "Mainline." Yet evangelicals are unsupportive of homosexuality when asked by reporters (which is usually the only time an evangelical leader actually talks about the issue) while Mainline churches have endorsed and celebrated gay unions and gay ordinations.

 

Thanks, anti-vaccination nuts, for the return of measles.

 

"There are probably five Bibles on every shelf in American homes. Americans buy the Bibles, they debate the Bible, they love the Bible... they just don't read the Bible" (Lamar Vest, president and CEO of the American Bible Society)

 

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