Links of the Day, October 16

News A Texas man is sentenced to death by jurors proof-texting the Bible. Finland makes broadband access a legal right. Go Finland! A Louisiana justice is refusing to marry mixed-race couples. Fourth-grader Tyren Scott asks Barack, “Why do people hate you?” Miscellaneous Apparently, living near ‘green spaces’ is good for one’s health. Who’d’ve thunk it? …

Adding to the confusion

One of my non-Christian friends emailed me a couple weeks ago, asking me what the Bible said about killing and murder. He was alluding to the Ten Commandments, and so I told him that the Bible said, no murder (short version), and more generally spoke of a consistent ethic of life and of the value …