School Boots Boy Over Jesus Costume



( Principal says costume was offensive and disrupted education process )

( Mum thinks her son's freedom of expression was violated )

( And now the commenters have a wing at it! Osama bin laden, Mohammed, murderers, ghosts, and prostitutes included! )

Needless to say Jesus was resurrected later on Halloween night to go trick or treating. Whoot!

Who's in the mood for a good ol' academic tussle?

1. Professor Steve Fuller writes a book called Dissent over Descent: Intelligent Design's Challenge to Darwinism.

2. Professor AC Grayling reviews the book for New Humanist magazine.

It is sometimes hard to know whether books that strike one as silly and irresponsible...are the product of a desire to strike a pose and appear outrageous (the John Gray syndrome), or really do represent that cancer of the contemporary intellect, post-modernism.

3. Fuller responds to the review.

I wish I could repay AC Grayling’s compliment by naming an exotic mental pathology after him, but regrettably his review of Dissent over Descent displays disorders of a much more mundane kind: he has merely failed to read the book properly and does not know what he is talking about.

4. Grayling responds to the response.

Steve Fuller complains, as do all authors whose books are panned, that I did not read his book properly (or at all). Alas, I did.

5. Forum fight!

At a high school championship game in Cartersville, Georgia, an umpire was struck in the face with a pitch when the visiting team's catcher ducked.  A much-viewed video clip posted on YouTube brought a lot of unfamiliar notoriety to the generally quiet rural area, and on Monday the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on subsequent actions taken by the school.  In the latter article's comments, local readers have things to say.



Opieandy sums it up thus: It's hard not to call people goofballs for the ridiculous arguments being made here.

But ultimately, as BASEBALL MOM reminds us, God forgave us for killing his son, who are we to throw blame and judge?