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	<title>An Examined Life</title>
	<link>http://scarson.stblogs.com</link>
	<description>Meandering thoughts about philosophy, religion, morality, politics, Greek and Latin literature, and anything else I can think of to avoid doing any real work</description>
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		<title>An Examined Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is continued here.
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		<link>http://scarson.stblogs.com/2007/08/24/an-examined-life/</link>
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		<title>The Evolution of Christianity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If, like me, you have an interest in the developmental patterns that structured the Christian religion during the first century, you are probably most familiar with those elements of the patterns that have been popularized in the mass media, elements such as the work of the Jesus Seminar, the publication of various Gnostic texts, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scarson.stblogs.com/2007/08/23/the-evolution-of-christianity/</link>
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		<title>Same Old Same Old</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new book by Philip Kitcher has been reviewed by James Kreuger for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. The book, Living with Darwin: Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith, is published by Oxford University Press. The book, which I have not read, appears to be a little different from recent books by Richard Dawkins and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scarson.stblogs.com/2007/08/22/same-old-same-old/</link>
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		<title>The Sands of Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They&#8217;ve been a-blowin&#8217; at me all day, as I sit here enjoying the beach at Lake Michigan on a beautiful, if windy, late summer afternoon. We&#8217;ve been hanging out here all week, somewhere in the vicinity of Holland, Michigan, but tomorrow we head on home. The kids will be back in school in a week, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scarson.stblogs.com/2007/08/17/the-sands-of-time/</link>
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		<title>Comfortable With the Size of My Muskens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a story at the Washington Post, there really is a bishop in the Netherlands named Tiny Muskens. This is the same bishop who advocated the use of condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS. Now he&#8217;s going around saying that everyone ought to refer to God as &#8220;Allah&#8221;. I suppose if I lived [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scarson.stblogs.com/2007/08/16/comfortable-with-the-size-of-my-muskens/</link>
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		<title>Aristotle Vindicated Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest issue of Nature (08/16/2007) has an interesting cover headline: &#8220;Form Finds Function&#8221; introduces an article by Johannes Hermann called &#8220;Structure-based activity prediction for an enzyme of unknown function&#8221; that argues, in effect, that the function of a certain enzyme can be predicted on the basis of its underlying structure. This is an interesting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scarson.stblogs.com/2007/08/15/aristotle-vindicated-again/</link>
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		<title>The Human Families</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The most recent archaeological evidence (published last week in Nature, 08/09/2007) suggests more trouble on the horizon for Biblical &#8220;literalists&#8221;, the pinheads who think that it&#8217;s not enough for the Bible to be &#8220;true&#8221;, it has to be &#8220;literally, word for word, jot and tittle true&#8221;, otherwise it&#8217;s all just a pack of lies. According [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scarson.stblogs.com/2007/08/14/the-human-families/</link>
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		<title>The Evolution of Affluence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cultural evolution can be a controversial topic. When one thinks about evolution it is natural to think about variation and change in the rather straightforward anatomical traits that one can visually assess or the more complex and discrete traits found at the level of the genome. But behaviors, beliefs, attitudes, and the like are no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scarson.stblogs.com/2007/08/08/the-evolution-of-affluence/</link>
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		<title>Sungenis Gets (Real) Religion?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a post at Pertinacious Papist, Robert Sungenis has removed some of the anti-semitic materials from his CAI website. I suppose that&#8217;s good news of some kind, though it is interesting that it took brute force rather than intellectual dialogue to get him to see the error of his ways, if indeed he does [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scarson.stblogs.com/2007/08/07/sungenis-gets-real-religion/</link>
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		<title>Dark Material Indeed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brandon Watson of Siris posted a nice essay on Friday about the Rowling and Pullman books. His comments on both were interesting and enlightening, and they got me to thinking. I confess that I have not been as swept away by these sets of books as others have, though I did read them, and in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scarson.stblogs.com/2007/08/05/dark-material-indeed/</link>
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		<title>Principles vs. Practices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being the sucker for popular culture that I am, I&#8217;ve been playing around with Facebook. Lisa has been very scornful of me for this, pointing out that Facebook is the playground of high school kids and their middle aged predators, not a savory place for an ordinary guy like me. Add to this the fact [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scarson.stblogs.com/2007/08/04/principles-vs-practices/</link>
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		<title>Loving Jesus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m ashamed to say that I&#8217;ve only just now noticed that I was tagged over a week ago by Mike Liccione of Sacramentum Vitae in the &#8220;Why I love Jesus&#8221; meme. I&#8217;m ashamed because I read Sacramentum Vitae every day and I can&#8217;t for the life of me imagine how I missed being tagged, other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scarson.stblogs.com/2007/08/02/loving-jesus/</link>
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		<title>Liturgia Horarum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been perusing of late some of the literature regarding the reform of the liturgies of the Church. In discussions/rants about the reforms of the last half century the focus tends to be on the Mass, since that tends to be the liturgy that most folks attend from week to week. It is sometimes forgotten [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scarson.stblogs.com/2007/08/02/liturgia-horarum/</link>
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		<title>Hitchens is not Great, but He Thinks He&#8217;s God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love this stuff. From a post at Taki&#8217;s Top Drawer by Tom Piatak:
The effectiveness of Hitchens’ book is also undermined by the large number of errors it contains, many so glaring that they will be picked up by even a casual reader with some knowledge of history and theology.  The Gnostic gospels are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scarson.stblogs.com/2007/07/26/hitchens-is-not-great-but-he-thinks-hes-god/</link>
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		<title>The Follies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1511 Erasmus wrote a wonderful little treatise called Encomium Morae, literally &#8220;Praise of Folly&#8221; but also a pun on the name of his friend, St. Thomas More (in medieval Latin, the final -ae of the word morae would have been pronounced the same way the final -e in the name &#8220;More&#8221; would have been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scarson.stblogs.com/2007/07/25/the-follies/</link>
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		<title>Classical Metaphors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lee T. Pearcy has written a fine little review of Robin Waterfield&#8217;s recent Xenophon&#8217;s Retreat: Greece, Persia, and the End of the Golden Age (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), said review appearing in the online Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews (2007.07.41). He begins with some observations about the intersection between classical scholarship and contemporary culture:
This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scarson.stblogs.com/2007/07/24/classical-metaphors/</link>
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		<title>Space and Concepts of Space</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his Physics, Aristotle, famously, denies that there can be such a thing as an actually infinite magnitude. That seems plausible enough, but he goes on to deny that anything can be actually infinite, which is a slightly more problematic claim. The most notorious example of the infinite, the continuum, was only potentially infinite for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scarson.stblogs.com/2007/07/24/space-and-concepts-of-space/</link>
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		<title>The God of the Philosophers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another item from the August/September issue of First Things not only caught my eye but impressed me as being, perhaps, the most interesting and thought-provoking thing I have ever read in that interesting and thought-provoking journal. It will come as no surprise to some of you that the piece can be found in the While [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scarson.stblogs.com/2007/07/23/the-god-of-the-philosophers/</link>
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		<title>Restraint and Moderation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The most recent issue of First Things has a nice essay by Henry Luke Orombi called &#8220;What is Anglicanism?&#8221; (August/September 2007, pp. 23-28). Orombi is the Anglican Archbishop of Uganda, and writes with both clarity and passion about the troubles besetting the worldwide Anglican Communion. Among the virtues of (authentic) Anglicanism that Orombi extols are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scarson.stblogs.com/2007/07/14/restraint-and-moderation/</link>
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		<title>Racism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My daughter is African American, and this is something that gets noticed here in Athens County. There are relatively few African Americans here, even though there is a major university in this town whose president is also an African American who has explicitly stated his desire to increase &#8220;diversity&#8221; on campus, principally in the form [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://scarson.stblogs.com/2007/07/13/racism/</link>
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