Friday, November 21, 2025

Friday Links

 Four Hands Good, Two Feet Better We did not have four feet and stood up, allowing two feet to become hands.  We were in the trees with four hands and came down. 

The Opposite of Chesterton's Fence Some fun comments

Graphs About Religion Fascinating site.  Here are two:

    Mainline female clergy are 71% Democrat, 5% Republican Female laity 47% and 44%

    Mainline clergy is much more liberal than laity   It's nice to have numbers to back that up

Lyman Stone debunks Elena Bridges, who thinks everything is about birth intervals 

2 comments:

  1. Rodney Stark's _Why God?_, delved into reasons clergy were more likely to relax to fit society than the laity were.

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  2. Yeah, no. Back when our ancestors were spending a lot of time in trees, they walked on the ground using 4 limbs, just like monkeys and cats and raccoons and squirrels do today. You can claim they're all walking on 4 hands, but that's using an idiosyncratic and bizarre definition of hand.

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