Nothing like the high holy days to bring the armchair theologians and momentary church nerds out of the woodwork... Okay, that sounds snotty and disparaging, and actually, I appreciate that at least a couple times a year the mainstream media pays attention to more serious questions of faith. Slate has several articles up currently about the life, death, and identity of Jesus, conveniently summarized here.
Mostly it seems "religion" isn't even considered a newsworthy category; MSNBC's articles on the recently authenticated Gospel of Judas have links to other Science stories, while CNN's article reporting the Archbishop of Canterbury's response to The DaVinci Code considers it primarily a matter of Arts, Culture, Entertainment.
Anyway, just something I noticed recently. I guess the compartmentalized life is just easier to handle for most people.
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