Monday, February 16, 2009

Religion and Politics

Via Andrew Sullivan, we have here a survey across different religions as to what guides their beliefs. Evidently, Jehovah's Witnesses are the most fundamentalist--an assessment that I have had occasion to verify myself--followed by Mormons and Evangelical Christians. Seems about right. It's not incredibly heartening (though we mainliners choose "practical experience and common sense" over religion as the foundation of our beliefs by 3-to-1!) but it could be worse--we could be in a J-Dub majority nation!
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The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.