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Consider the mindset of your stereotypical Silicon Valley computer nerd: hyper-intelligent, introverted, socially awkward, often weird. Consider also what they are tasked to do for their day jobs. They dissect the ambiguous statements of natural language into the deterministic logic that a machine can “understand.” The resulting tangles of logic are often huge, more than any human mind can contemplate at once. So a large part of the job is organizing that logic into hierarchies so a human can focus on manageable chunks at a time. And even then, the more chunks one can hold at a time, the better....

A Disciples of Christ Church in San Diego that describes itself as "radically inclusive" has purchased a billboard atop a gay bar with a message to the LGBT community, declaring, "God takes pride in you, so do we!" The Mission Gathering Christian Church first promoted its billboard endorsing gay pride on Twitter last month as something that the Bible would also treat as that which is "right and good." "If you're looking for a sign... This is it. Our message of PRIDE coming in July. Check us out then join us to 'do what is right and good...' Deuteronomy 6:18,"...

An Atlanta church's effort to improve relations between Christians and Muslims in their community has turned into a nationwide program that has churchgoers reading English versions of the Quran next to their Bibles.The scriptural study, called Jesus in the Quran, will take place this weekend at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church in Houston. The program began out of the basic Christian commandment to "love thy neighbor." "In 2001, like most Americans, we were pretty awakened to the true Islamic presence in the world and in the United States," said Jon Stallsmith, the outreach minister at Grace Fellowship Church who initiated the...