What’s happening to the Catholic Church? You know, the church I belonged to until, to quote George Carlin, “I reached the age of reason.” First, limbo goes out the window. Now the church is bringing mortal sin into the 21st Century.
For those unfamiliar with Catholic doctrine, mortal sins basically mean go directly [...]
December 27, 2007 – 12:11 pm
The sad but all too true irony of this just grabs me. The Associated Press reports:
Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests attacked each other with brooms and stones inside the Church of the Nativity as long-standing rivalries erupted in violence during holiday cleaning on Thursday.
The church is built on the spot in Bethlehem where Christians [...]
February 27, 2007 – 6:37 pm
For some reason, it didn’t sink in until a couple minutes after I put up the last post, which had an item dealing with the so-called “Lost Tomb of Jesus.”
Turns out the archaeological site from which these ossuaries were recovered was discussed in the introduction to James Tabor’s The Jesus Dynasty, which I reviewed last [...]
Although I’ve been reading it for a long time and it’s in my daily RSS feed, I just recently added The Revealer to the links list. The last week or so is an indication of why it’s now linked.
First, there is Garret Keizer’s inquiry, “Is the media Catholic?” (which could surely apply to the [...]
January 4, 2005 – 5:53 pm
As the religious right’s influence in the new Congress and Bushworld bring us closer to a theocracy, I offer the Top Ten Signs You’re A Christian:
10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of your god.
9 - You feel insulted [...]
December 23, 2004 – 10:03 pm
I recently commented that “I evidently missed that part of the Bible talking about turning plowshares into swords.” Turns out it actually is there.
Evidently, Joel 3:10 says: “Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.’” Guess it goes to show you can find [...]
November 10, 2004 – 12:42 pm
Evangelicals believe God intervened to elect Bush this month. (Via Cursor).
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November 9, 2004 – 6:47 pm
I’m still struggling with hypocrisy of the religious right equating “moral values” to litmus tests of being against gay marriage and abortion. A friend today reminded me of certain verses from Chapter 25 of the Gospel according to Matthew. In the language of the New American Bible from the US Conference of Catholic [...]
September 21, 2004 – 6:47 pm
It claims to be official but…. The errors or omissions paragraph is the clincher.
Interestingly, Google indicates there’s a number of such faqs. This one may be hard to beat, though.
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September 14, 2004 – 9:32 pm
Two stories appearing next to each other in this morning’s Argus made me wonder: Is it any wonder Iran, North Korea, etc., think they need to develop nuclear weapons or that we have no credibility when it comes to these issues?
At the top of page 3 was an Associated Press article that “the United States [...]
April 10, 2004 – 11:24 am
I just finished Karen Armstrong’s memoir, The Spiral Staircase. (By coincidence, the book section in today’s Guardian has an excellent biographical piece about her. And Powell’s has an interview here.) Armstrong is a British woman who left the convent after seven years and the book details her struggles in coming to terms [...]
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