Month: March 2006
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Koala!
Hot off the art pad, by Freddy age 5. “I am friendly,” his winning smile seems to say, but the way he brandishes those claws is reason enough to stay back a few paces. And all his weight is coming down on one toe: is he landing, leaping, shifting, running? You know what I love…
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Nietzsche: Love Poems to Jesus
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is rightly famous for diagnosing God as deceased, for taking the project of human self-overcoming onto his own shoulders, for praying for the advent of the Antichrist/Antinihilist, and conjuring a new post-Judaeo-Christian religion made out of eternal recurrence, the will to power, and Zarathustra yea-saying to Life, Life, Life. Whooo! A thick…
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9 Art Bloopers in the DaVinci Code
It’s hard for me to avoid the theological elements of the book, but I will exercise restraint and limit myself here to nine things that bugged me about how Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code handled the art and the career of Leonardo DaVinci. These are minor irritants compared to his handling of things like the…
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Jesus Loves John
John Mark Reynolds asked for examples of bad arguments mined from the plentiful quarry of The DaVinci Code. I don’t think what I’m responding to here counts as an argument, but it’s an interesting bit of incomprehension in the book. The relationship between John and Jesus is incomprehensible to Dan Brown. The gospel of John…
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Scripture proportions
“It is not enough to teach the truth; it should be taught in Scripture proportions.” I spend a lot of time reading evangelicals from about 100 years ago. These people are the generation that is just getting over the death of D. L. Moody, and picking a strategy for the global, interdenominational movement of conservative…
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Knight Lowering Visor
Freddy continues his tireless pursuit of his current favorite subject. Here is another knight, this one reaching up to lower his visor.