A Christian asks; ‘I\u2019m the bad guy? How did that happen?’<\/a>” I chimed in on the question of how, and whether, Christians should be considered intolerant and ignorant threats to society (or members thereof). I ended up in the oddly uncomfortable and unexpected position of defending my personal faith from identification with the ultra-Orthodox Right who have absconded with the Christian “brand.”<\/p>\nSo if the topic floats your boat, and you want to dig into stuff I’ve been writing about the past few weeks, check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I admit that the actual blog posts of late have been a bit thin on the ground. There have been compilation of Tweets from Twitter, and gobs of “Unblogged Bits” via Google Reader, but not as much original writing as I would like. 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