We have had a cancellation for the blog dinner scheduled for 7:00 pm in NYC (Midtown), this coming Tuesday (August 27). So we have one more seat at the table. Anyone interested? If so, email me at [email protected] Only requirements for attendance: you be a member of the blog, you get there, you pay for your meal, you be interested in talking to us!
An Opening for the Blog Dinner NYC August 27
August 22, 2019
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What (holy) envy!
And if it were already in the 2019/20 season the Metropolitan Opera, what to tell you!
When I recover my health and money (prayers are asked for that miracle to happen! I even beg it to the atheists and agnostics / skeptics of this blog), I will go to dinner with you and return the next day to my dear MET.
In the August 5/12 New Yorker, a review of a new book, “The mosquito: A Human History of our Deadliest Predator.” In this review, this sentence: “In the third century, malaria epidemics helped drive people to a small, much persecuted faith that emphasized healing and care of the sick, propelling Christianity into a world-altering religion.” I realize that medical history is not your thing. If nonetheless you’d care to comment, any warrant for this assertion?
The word “mosquito” appears 5 times throughout your blog, at least according to the search engine; nuttin germane therein. Thanks.
I talk about this in my book The Triumph of Chrsitianity, not the mosquito bit, but the claim that Christian health care led it (or helped it) grow. I show why it just doesn’t work. (The reviewer is getting his/her informaiton from the book by Rodney Stark, the Rise of Christianity; I show in my discussion why the claim can’t bear the weight of the evidence. The evidence actually points in the *opposite* direciton)
Thanks. Read your book, but (obviously) forgot. Can’t even believe the N Yorker!!