Breaking News: Family Radio Prepared to Admit it was Wrong about the Rapture
Via Joel Watts and Peter Kirk I learned that Family Radio, Harold Camping’s organization, has said that if the Rapture has not occurred by midnight Jerusalem time tonight, they were wrong.In related...
View ArticleInerrancy of the Bible and Sarah Palin
The two possible meanings of the title of this post are intentional. It seems to me that the same tactics that Christians who believe in the Bible’s inerrancy use to deal with evidence to the contrary...
View ArticleThe Very Condition of Humanity is to be Wrong about God
When Rachel Held Evans shared these words on Facebook, I was immediately struck by how well they encapsulated a crucial point, and thoughts they should become a meme. Here’s the context:It’s hard for...
View ArticleWhat If You’re Wrong?
Multiple posts came to my attention recently, all of which seek to respond to the conservative assumption that it is liberals who need to worry about being wrong in accepting gays and lesbians, as well...
View ArticleIf You Can’t Have the Bible You’d Love, Love the Bible You Have
I probably shouldn’t tamper with the wording of a song for the title of this post. Cee Lo Green has sparked a lot of controversy with his New Year’s Eve rendition of John Lennon’s “Imagine,” in which...
View ArticleThe Relativity of Wrong
“[W]hen people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as...
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