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Not Pumpkin Pie!

Beth and I are back from California for the second time in a month, and from this year’s OzCon International, the first full one since 2019. I think the Friday programming might have been shorter than in previous years, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Characters, Eric Shanower, Food, Futurama, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged atticus gannaway, beetlejuice, changelings, cinar, david hulan, dina schiff massachi, dorothy gale, dumbo, earthworm jim, elephants, eric gjovaag, erica olivera, fairies, faith, filmation, freddy fogarty, glinda, hungry tiger, immortals, imogene the cow, jack pumpkinhead, ken mclellan, lollipop guild, marsupilami, mombi, munchkins, nate barlow, neil cuadra, ozcon international, ozma, patchwork girl, peter hanff, phineas and ferb, professor wogglebug, puns, return to oz, rugrats, ruth cuadra, ryan bunch, sam milazzo, sarah crotzer, sawhorse, school days in the land of oz, spirituality, te craft, ted eshbaugh, the baum bugle, the cowardly lion of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the oz kids, the tik-tok man of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the tin woods, the wizard of oz (1902), the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, wicked witch of the west, zoe o'haillin-berne |

Impure Evil

One Bible verse I’ve heard a fair amount recently is from Isaiah 5:20: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Current Events, Education, Gender, Language, Philosophy, Politics, Prejudice, Religion, Sexuality | Tagged bible, faith, homophobia, homosexuality, idols, isaiah, jesus, kirk cameron, mary miller, morality, national day for prayer and repentance, patriarchy, racism, ritual, romans, sin, st. paul, transphobia |

You Can’t Bluff an Old Theologian

I don’t like to do two posts about the same basic thing in a row, but sometimes I do because of timing issues. In this case, these are more Christmas-themed television specials we saw, and I want to discuss them … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Christmas, Comics, Holidays, Humor, Philosophy, Religion, Television | Tagged a charlie brown christmas, a family circus christmas, afterlife, bil keane, charlie brown, charlie brown's christmas tales, faith, ghosts, linus van pelt, lucy van pelt, peanuts, rerun van pelt, sally brown, santa claus, snoopy, spike, the family circus |

Getting Off the Tract

Holy Faceless God, Jack Chick died yesterday. Hey, isn’t that the day Bishop James Ussher claimed the world began in 4004 BC? I don’t know whether modern Young Earth Creationists still accept that date, but it still seems appropriate. You’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Current Events, Fundamentalism, In Memoriam, Jack Chick, Prejudice, Religion | Tagged alberto rivera, belief, chick tracts, creationism, faith, fang, heaven, hell, jesus, kent hovind |

Tempting Faith

To my mind, a skeptical or rational viewpoint (using these terms fairly loosely) involves not only refusing to automatically accept anything out of hand, but also not immediately rejecting anything. That’s not to say that all things are equal, however. … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Chronicles of Narnia, Magic, Religion | Tagged aslan, atheism, belief, bible, dwarves, evidence, faith, jesus, miracles, new age, pharisees, rationalism, skepticism, space trilogy, the last battle, the magician's nephew |

Battle for the Holidays

This might well be the last post I make before Christmas Day, and I wanted to direct your attention to this post on Northier Than Thou, which sums up the problems with the imagined War on Christmas. While the religious … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Christmas, Holidays, L. Frank Baum, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Politics, Religion, Television | Tagged faith, jesus, kirk cameron, krampus, rankin-bass, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, santa claus, st. nicholas, the life and adventures of santa claus, war on christmas |

Stereotype of the Stubborn Skeptic

I mentioned while talking about Once Upon a Time that the protagonist, Emma Swan, was yet another skeptic who wouldn’t believe what was in front of her face until something major happened. This is a pretty common trope, with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Once Upon a Time, Philosophy, Religion, Television | Tagged agnosticism, atheism, belief, blind faith, faith, fantasy, leap of faith, magic, skepticism |