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Here's a novel idea:  A tutorial on critical thinking based on

For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness God requires.  (James 1:20)

Leave it to old James to hit the nail on the head.  Anger just doesn't get the job done, at least the way you'd like it.  So why are we angry so much of the time?  

I just came back from a couple of days of retreat hanging with the

Charlotte Allen has written a great op-ed piece published in yesterday's LA Times entitled "Atheists - No God, No Reason, Just Whining."  Allen takes note of my Fav Five of pop atheism:  

Richard Dawkins (The Deluded Atheist who likes to

Michael "Under God" Newdow is back in the news and the courts again.  He's the atheist who tried to get "under God" removed from the pledge, arguing on behalf of his daughter, who happens to be

 Stephen Colbert takes on Bart Ehrman.  Hilarious.

Novelist and biographer A.N.Wilson, a believer turned atheist who kept company with the likes of Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchins, has become a "faith-head" (Dawkins' term) once again and embraced the faith once delivered to the saints.  Finding believing in nothing rather vacuous, Wilson writes an eloquent account of his reconversion