the sad thing is, I doubt most of those students are chasing wealth, so much as a decent living. Read more

Guys I just watched it for like the sixth time. Read more

Please enjoy these additional moments of C-SPAN greatness, btw. Read more

I cringe-laughed Read more

"occasionally going to prison for breaking into nuclear weapons facilities to decorate them with Bible verses and human blood." Read more

Hi, I'm from Macon, Georgia, so it was growing up in the South that shaped my own personal view of the South. Read more

Wow. I promise you Scarlett O'Hara was not sitting down to write the family Christmas letter. Read more

To be clear, I absolutely think we should keep it on the cultural syllabus, so to speak. But I think it's good to see the uncritical fandom dying down, to some degree. Read more

I think we also have to recognize, though, that Gone With the Wind has played a major role in shaping how white Southerners have understood their own history through the course of the 20th century. So it's not simply a question of "well, contemporary racism, but also good filmmaking." The movie has a life of its own… Read more

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The argument of the post is "I'm skeptical of these numbers." And if people can't be bothered to read past the headline then I'm not really sure I give a shit what they think about my religious beliefs. Read more

Look, if you look at the history of Christianity in the 20th century, there are a lot of people who have struggled to reconcile science and faith; some of them have done that by not taking things like the virgin birth literally. Like myself, for instance! And I am surprised and even skeptical that more Christians have… Read more

None of the Jezebel staff is immune from mistakes but we do not engage in "blatant lying" as a rule. Read more

I am not advancing "atheistic arguments." I am not actually an atheist, for the record! I do, however, think it is very surprising that such a large percentage of Americans still believe that the virgin birth is literally true, considering the growing population of non-Christian Americans, for one thing, as well as… Read more

I mean, I don't give a shit whether people people in the virgin birth or not. I'm just surprised that after a century of pretty vicious sniping between science and religion, this particular tenet is still hanging in there so strongly. Read more

Not what Pew says, dude: Read more

Oh shit here comes Mark to bust some heads Read more

It's not about the strangeness of the idea of the virgin birth—I'm surprised because people have been trying to reconcile science and Christianity for well over a hundred years at this point, and I would have thought the "stories as metaphors" line of argument would've made more inroads among people who just generally… Read more

I do wonder whether if you pushed the respondents they might admit to more doubts. Read more

Well, there are a plenty of Christians who don't necessarily believe the Bible is 100% literally true word-for-word. I do think there are people who feel comfortable believing in God without necessarily taking the story of the virgin birth at face value. I think it's interesting they don't make a better showing in the… Read more