{"id":3259,"date":"2008-12-29T20:30:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T20:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/12\/29\/race-gender-and-a-job-for-slac\/"},"modified":"2008-12-29T20:30:38","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T20:30:38","slug":"race-gender-and-a-job-for-slac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/12\/29\/race-gender-and-a-job-for-slac\/","title":{"rendered":"Race, Gender, and a Job for Slacktivist"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was on Baby Duty today, so I spent some time listening to Bloggingheads dialogs, including Kerry Howley and Richard Rodriguez<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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There’s a lot of good stuff in here, but I almost hesitate to post about it, because it’s practically guaranteed to bring out the worst sorts of commentary. There’s a bunch of stuff about race, gender, and identity which was really interesting, but will undoubtedly set “Uncle Al” off. The biggest problem, though, is that the most interesting comments had to do with religion.<\/p>\n

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Rodriguez spends a bit of time talking about Catholicism in comparison to evangelical churches, and he made a comment that probably isn’t entirely new, but struck me as interesting. He noted that Catholic churches always have a crucifix with a representation of Jesus on it, while evangelical churches always have just a cross. He said that Catholics are perpetually on Good Friday, emphasizing the suffering and death of Jesus, while evangelicals are perpetually on Easter Sunday, emphasizing the resurrection.<\/p>\n

As I said, I thought this was one of the most interesting parts of the discussion. I’m not sure I completely agree, but there’s probably something to that, at least based on my limited exposure to evangelical churches.<\/p>\n

Of course, what I’d really like to hear is Fred Clark<\/a>‘s take on this. It seems to resonate with some of the things he’s said in his exhaustive discussions of Left Behind<\/a> and the misguided theology of LaHaye and Jenkins. The whole “Rapture” notion seems like an attempt to have Christianity without the suffering.<\/p>\n

Of course, I don’t have an email address for Fred, and can’t find one on his blog. And he has an active enough comment community that I’m not sure dropping a link in a comment would actually get his attention. So I’ll post it here, even though I’m almost certain to get some really juvenile comments in response (I’ll leave it out of the Politics channel, in hopes of avoiding the worst of the culture warriors).<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m not convinced anybody is actually reading blogs at the moment, given that we’re in this half-week of limbo between Christmas and New Year’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was on Baby Duty today, so I spent some time listening to Bloggingheads dialogs, including Kerry Howley and Richard Rodriguez: There’s a lot of good stuff in here, but I almost hesitate to post about it, because it’s practically guaranteed to bring out the worst sorts of commentary. There’s a bunch of stuff about… Continue reading Race, Gender, and a Job for Slacktivist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}