The Wages of Sin Stephen McCaskil from ChristWeb points out a German study that provides one more reason to avoid adultery -- unfaithful men are more likely to die during sex than their loyal counterparts. (Perhaps they were just following the commandment, “Thou Shalt Commit Adultery" found in the typo-ridden Bibles that Bene blogged about.)

Which One‘s a Dud? Scott Ritter was a former UN weapons inspector who claimed that Saddam still had WMD. Once a friend of the tyrant gave him $400,000, though, Ritter changed his tune and claimed that Iraq was no longer a threat. Apparently, he's still receiving royalties for singing the same song because he now has an article in the Christian Science Monitor claiming that the sarin filled artillery shell was one of “tens of thousands of these "duds" were scattered across the desert terrain."

I know just enough about artillery to know something wasn’t right with the story, but not nearly enough to give it a proper fisking. That’s why I handed it off to Donald Sensing, uber-blogger and former Army artillery officer, who tears holes in Ritter’s theory so large you could shoot a "base-bleed projectile" thru them. Be sure to check out Sensing’s takedown. With enough exposure this story will be squashed before Ritter even has time to cash his next payoff check.

Plato vs. Aristotle Josh Claybourn (guest-blogging for Paul Musgrave) uses one of my favorite paintings (Raphael’s The School of Athens) to launch into a discussion of why Christian philosophers tend to align more with Aristotle than with Plato. My short answer (which will require further elaboration in the near future) has two parts, the Catholic reason and the evangelical reason. The Catholic reason: Because Thomas Aquinas preferred Aristotle and Catholic philosophers prefer Aquinas. The Evangelical reason: Because Platonic idealism cannot be reconciled with Biblical Christianity.

The Chalabi Conspiracy Tim Berglund thinks he has the Ahmed Chalabi situation all figured out. If he’s serious (and I don’t really think he is) he’s wrong. Still, he presents the theory is a more coherent manner than anyone on the Left will be able to do. Perhaps the Democratic Underground should get Tim to polish up some of their conspiracy theories for them sometime.

Choosing a Bible Jeremy Pierce of Parablemania has a useful review of bible translations. For those of you wondering the answers to your questions are: “Yes, it does matter (some are more accurate than others).", “Yes, you need more than one translation.", and “No, Jesus did not speak in King James English (so you don’t have to either)."

Then again, I could be wrong… You'd be amazed to find how often people disagree with me (I know I was). And I’m not just talking about the raving loons thoughtful gentlemen who add their voices to my comments section, either. I’m talking about intelligent, thoughtful Christian people. Some of them are even Republicans. That’s why I take their opinions seriously enough to point out where they disagree with me:

On Gay Marriage-- Rusty Lopez takes issue with my contention that gay marriage isn’t that serious a threat to hetero marriage (see here for more).

On Defining Religion --Joel Fuhrmann thinks I'm wrong about Unitarianism being a "religion." Jeffrey Collins also wonders the same thing. Macht from prosthesis adds some qualifications to my definition of religion. Gerry Spence agrees with Macht and adds more qualifications to the definition.

These are the only examples I’ve found where people have openly disagreed with my on their blogs. I assume that since no one else has spoken up, everyone else is in complete agreement with everything I've written this week. Silence, after all, implies agreement. At least that is the rule my wife has in our house (which may explain why she only ask me my opinion when I’m sleeping).