Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Religion. Show all posts

Monday, December 31, 2007

Jesus is My Co-Pilot

If only we all had the same assurance of what the facts are:

It's important to understand that the message you are sharing is not merely an opinion but a fact. That's why sharing the gospel can't be called an imposition, any more than a pilot can impose his belief on all his passengers that the runway is here and not there.
The science of the Gospel, eh?

(h/t Andrew Sullivan)

Friday, December 7, 2007

Hitchens Bitch Slaps the Mitt

For better or ill, Mitt Romney gave his religion speech. Christoper Hitchens is not impressed:

According to the admittedly very contradictory scriptures of the New Testament, Jesus of Nazareth warned his disciples and followers that they should expect to be ridiculed and mocked for their faith. After all, how likely was it that God had decided to reveal himself to only a few illiterate peasants in a barbarous backwater? Those who elected to believe this stuff were quite rightly told to expect a hard time, and the expression "fool for God" or "fool for Christ" has been with us ever since. That concept has some dignity and nobility. Entirely lacking in dignity or nobility (or average integrity) is the well-heeled son of a gold-plated church who wants to assume the pained look of martyrdom only when he is asked if he actually believes what he says. A long time ago, Romney took the decision to be a fool for Joseph Smith, a convicted fraud and serial practitioner of statutory rape who at times made war on the United States and whose cult has been made to amend itself several times in order to be considered American at all. We do not require pious lectures on the American founding from such a man, and we are still waiting for some straight answers from him.


Mr. Hitchen's disdain for Mitt seems quite warranted in my estimation. Oh, and the prose is absolutely marvelous. If we could all write like that ... well then we wouldn't be blogging for free, would we?

Friday, November 16, 2007

Why Pasta Matters

Pastafarians finally get the publicity and recognition they deserve. All Hail the Great Flying Spaghetti Monster! Pastafarians everywhere are dancing in the streets.