Samuel Perry
Professor | Books: Growing God's Family; Addicted to Lust; Taking America Back for God; The Flag and The Cross; Religion for Realists | CV: tinyurl.com/4hs86ntn
- Illustration from a medical text book in 1875 showing the physical difference between "the masturbator" and "the abstainer." I share this with my students to illustrate how moral culture shapes the medicalization of particular practices, even in ways obviously inconsistent with reality.
- Reactions to the new Pope are yet another good example of how our religious evaluations are (now, maybe always) downstream of partisan in-group concerns. Conservatives dismissing him with no other knowledge other than hearing he's like Francis. Progressives celebrating him cuz he criticized Vance.
