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Even the players are weird. Take Carl Everett, for instance. Everett, the former Mets outfielder who is the most prominent non-Hispanic black guy in the whole city of Boston, does not believe in dinosaurs. “The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs,” Everett famously...
Perhaps the Bible is wrong, and you really can put new wine into old wineskins. It certainly seems to be the business model for lots of old, fusty fashion labels these days. The fashion industry has always had a voracious appetite for the new and the young--and has ultimately...
Blake was deeply anticlerical; to him, organized religion meant oppression--"As the catterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys." His relation to Christian belief was both saturated in the imagery of the Bible and extremely nondoctrinal. He...
Blake not only despised the way Reynolds painted, but also he was sure Reynolds' malign influence had blasted his career. The sore truth seems to be that Reynolds had scarcely heard of Blake, and would not have felt threatened by him anyway. But time was on Blake's side. Does...
So, Ashcroft "bristles at the suggestion that he's doing anything improper" by holding daily Bible-study sessions in government offices? Putting aside the separation of church and state, I wonder whose names will come to mind when Ashcroft considers raises and promotions. Will they be the names of the...