As on my main blog, I do a roundup of popular posts. But, since I don't blog here as often, I do this on a quarterly, not monthly, basis. As there, not all these may have been written in the past three months, but they're the most popular of that time frame.
With that, let's dig in.
No 1? "The Cross and the Swastika," my eventual second header for the piece about fascism in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and how current President Matthew Harrison set himself up for trying to put out this fire. (It's already in the top 10 for the year.)
No. 2 focuses on the guy who, to pun on his own moniker for himself, I call "The Self-Besotted Philosopher," Jonathan M.S. Pearce (and some of the other toffs who formed Only Sky) after Patheos closed its non-religious vertical. Pearce had drawn my critical eyeball back then, and it's only increased with the move (and Only Sky overall has also gotten skeptical criticism from me), and it increased with his bluntness about supporting the West fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian. On top of his previously documented Islamophobia, it showed him to be another Gnu Atheist, or semi-Gnu, who is NOT a secular humanist.
No. 3 is also about Only Sky, and why I think an allegedly secularist Jew still celebrating Hanukkah is silly.
No. 4? An oldie from 2020. I did not post the full blog post link on a Facebook page that's about the now defunct St. John's College (one owned by the LCMS, not Catholics), but did post a link about which I had blogged. The college myth biting the dust was the claim that St. John's College graduate (and token Black claim to fame?) Paul Hill wrote "Lean on Me."
No. 5 is about "Yet more on the wrongness of Heidegger," and based on a response comment and an edit by me, will have a more in-depth follow-up just after this.
No. 6 is about how the homily for a graduation Mass at a local Catholic high school, and also the valedictorian's speech, which loosely reflected homily ideas — a homily by the presiding bishop of the Fort Worth Diocese, no less! — totally falls apart when you recognize the total ahistoricity of John 21 and Acts 23, the bible passages upon which it was based.
In No. 7? Three and a half years ago, I wrote about "Wittgenstein the overrated Platonist." He is still both overrated and very much a Platonist. I still remember when that light bulb came on.
No. 8? From this second-quarter time frame a year ago, calling Catholic May Crowning a sort of Juggernaut, or, to be precise and original, Jagannath, and wondering if the latter possibly influenced the former. Probably will be in the top 10 for future second quarters if it draws Google searches.
No. 9? One of my most recent posts, as I've been loving me kicking some Only Sky in the nads, and I talked in June about other political nuttery they got wrong. (It, too, like the Self-Besotted Philosopher, was Russia-Ukraine related.)
No. 10? I said goodbye to History for Atheists six years ago, and have no problem telling others to tell the same to papal-fellating cultural Christianist atheist Tim O'Neill all the time.
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