{"id":22385,"date":"2011-08-28T05:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T11:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/28\/unblogged-bits-sun-28-aug-11-0530.html"},"modified":"2011-08-28T05:30:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T11:30:32","slug":"unblogged-bits-sun-28-aug-11-0530","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/28\/unblogged-bits-sun-28-aug-11-0530.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sun. 28-Aug-11 0530)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/ZcoC8rwfcVE\/watch\">Silent Monks Singing Halleluia &#8211; YouTube<\/a> &#8211; Yes!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/509AcweKeDw\/\">Yeah, he is that badass<\/a> &#8211; Bravo, sir.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/iROX06lcziw\/\">New Report Shows Divorce Rates Highest in Bible Belt States<\/a> &#8211; I really wonder how many people realize that California and New York are <b>below<\/b> the national divorce average.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/rsRnLwkfKm8\/\">How Do Atheists Prepare for Hurricane Irene?<\/a> &#8211; Whether or not you think that God will help you through your prayers, you are personally responsible, as a &#8220;neighbor&#8221; (and as a Christian) to help others, not trust that Jesus will somehow rescue them because of pious prayer.  &#8220;Again it is written, &#8216;You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test.'&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/Dd4Dn0wf4zo\/\">Jerry Buell, I Rebuke Thee<\/a> &#8211; Live your life &#8212; your personal actions &#8212; as you see fit and in accordance to your conscience.  But don&#8217;t teach my daughter your particular metaphysics, don&#8217;t assert that if she doesn&#8217;t believe what you do she should find another teacher, don&#8217;t pretend to be a martyr of freedom when you&#8217;re really a martyr of the One True Way.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. Silent Monks Singing Halleluia &#8211; YouTube &#8211; Yes! Yeah, he is that badass &#8211; Bravo, sir. New Report Shows Divorce Rates Highest in Bible Belt States &#8211; I really wonder how many people realize that California and New York &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/28\/unblogged-bits-sun-28-aug-11-0530.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Sun. 28-Aug-11 0530)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40848,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/22\/bible-thumping-divorce-rates.html","url_meta":{"origin":22385,"position":0},"title":"Bible-thumping divorce rates","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 22-Jan-14 8:44am","format":false,"excerpt":"It appears that areas with more conservative Protestantism (defined as Biblical literalism) have to higher divorce rates, not lower as one might expect (or as religious conservatives \u00a0might expect).The issue is not with the religious teaching about divorce per se, but apparently other things being pushed by that cultural influence,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2312,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/14\/divorce_in_hast.html","url_meta":{"origin":22385,"position":1},"title":"Divorce in haste, repent at leisure?","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 14-Jul-02 1:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Another study is out indicating that divorce doesn't necessarily make you happier. 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