I have actually read the Bible (though it has been a few years, and I've been meaning to do a re-read for awhile for purly curious reasons to refresh my memory), and I knew most of these things, but it was still fun. Interesting. Whatever.

Five Things You Won't Believe Aren't In The BibleAs I told my friend Emma - sometimes it is just fun to say ( Read more... )

The Quran burning and the controversy surrounding the Islamic mosque in the workings near Ground Zero is all over the news. I don't even *watch* the news - I catch snip-its of it here and there when my housemates are watching, or I get information second and third hands from my friends - and I still can't get away from it. And it breaks my heart ( Read more... )

This is old, but I thought I would share anyway for those of you on my Friends List who are fans of Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" series. (for those who might not know what I'm talking about, in 2007, 'The Golden Compass' - the first of the series - made it to the big screen. There are two more books in the series; Subtle Knife' and 'The ( Read more... )

Cristin posted the Best God Drabble *Ever*! in her journal. Awesome!

God is gone for the weekend and comes back to find his teenage children (aka, us) have trashed his planet.
"AND THE DODO. YOU KILLED THE DODO! THAT WAS A GIFT FROM MICHAEL, YOU UNGRATEFUL BRATS."Seriously. I am totally adding it to my memories ( Read more... )

I spent the last hour of my guard shift talking theology with the other guard. Well, the last half hour was theology, the first half hour ranged from fights and how fast you can swim to why I don't like being American so much (he was apparently in the Marines, so he kinda thought I was crazy, but what else is new) to what the aquatics meeting last ( Read more... )

Okay, so I've known for a long time that I was going straight to Hell. However, after I post this, I'm pretty sure I'll likely become the Devil's very own personal torture project ( Read more... )

(  ramble on what I think about the discovery of the Gospel of Judas that I tried to think about from a more scholarly and less religous standpoint )

Oh, hey, now I remember what else I was gonna talk about.

NBC has been advertising this new movie called Revelations, and I'm torn between curiosity and my love of Bill Pullman, and the fact that it looks like another one of those films that might tend to stuff religion down your throat. I'm hoping it'll be more like Stigmata, which while being ( Read more... )

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