Musings

I’m begin­ning to believe that the Bible legit­i­mately per­mits of two very dif­fer­ent social reads--not just per­mits, but encour­ages. The first is the legal view, the con­trac­tual view, the one that appeals to order and power, while the sec­ond is the rad­i­cal­ized view, which speaks to a going beyond of the sta­tus quo. In and …

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July 15, 2011 – 11:10 pm | By Matt | Posted in Religion | Tagged | Comments (2)

Drugstore Handicapping Our Education System

It’s what they called back then a drug­store hand­i­cap. A guy wants what a fel­low calls “a sure thing,” so he schemes to make it so. -Lucky Num­ber Slevin One bit of national news that hits both lit­er­ally and metaphor­i­cally close to home is the recent dis­cov­ery of the Atlanta Pub­lic Schools (APS) cheat­ing scan­dal. In …

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July 12, 2011 – 4:49 pm | By Matt | Posted in Education, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Immigration and the early Israelites

  Note: This post does not cover ‘solu­tions’ to the immi­gra­tion issue; instead, it is an address, of sorts, to Chris­tians regard­ing (what I see as) the view the Pen­ta­teuch takes on being an alien (or immi­grant). This post is pri­mar­ily about the Bible, if that’s not your cup of tea, then this isn’t the …

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June 14, 2011 – 3:53 am | By Matt | Posted in Christianity, Immigration, Politics, Religion | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Brief Thoughts: Responding to Dawkins

“We have brains: it’s brains that do the think­ing, our brains are going to decay, that’ll be that. But when you say, “Is this it?” Well, how much more do you want? This is won­der­ful.”- Richard Dawkins I saw this Dawkins’ quote yes­ter­day (the quote is from a panel dis­cus­sion, video here). I wanted to agree …

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May 26, 2011 – 5:54 pm | By Matt | Posted in Atheism, Christianity, Philosophy | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

the lackluster return of themattscott

I wrote a cou­ple blog posts a few months ago. I thought that I’d get back into the whole blog­ging thing. I did things like post count­down timers on my site, and I announced my impend­ing return on face­book and twit­ter. Then I got caught up in life and never really fin­ished the series I …

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May 24, 2011 – 3:28 am | By Matt | Posted in General | Tagged , , | Comments (1)