February 2012
1 post
C.S. Lewis on evolution.
“For long centuries God perfected the animal form which was to become the vehicle of humanity and the image of Himself. He gave it hands whose thumb could be applied to each of the fingers, and jaws and teeth and throat capable of articulation, and a brain sufficiently complex to execute all the material motions whereby rational thought is incarnated. The creature may have existed for ages...
January 2012
3 posts
Why Newt Gingrich can't beat President Obama.
A couple days ago I wrote an article giving four major reasons why I believed Romney couldn’t beat Obama. Well, now that Gingrich has emerged as a formidable obstacle in Romney’s pursuit of the lukewarm nomination, I think I should probably write a similar article about Gingrich.
All right, let’s start with a picture of Gingrich—
Wait, no… That’s Gothmog,...
What the New England Patriots mean to me.
So the Patriots are going to another Super Bowl. A lot of people rolled their eyes at this news, asked when a new team was going to go to the Super Bowl or just used it as fodder for their frustration that the Niners didn’t make it. For me, however, the moment that Billy Cundiff (poor guy) botched the last second field goal kick in the AFC Championship, I was running up and down the...
Why Mitt Romney can't beat President Obama.
I’ve been talking with quite a few friends and have seen a number of polls and pundits saying the same thing: Mitt Romney is probably the only candidate that can beat Barack Obama.
Really? Mitt Romney? I think you have the wrong Mormon.
Since he threw his hat into the ring (and recently took it out), I’ve always said that Huntsman had the GOP’s best chance against Obama,...
December 2011
2 posts
November 2011
5 posts
It's easier than ever to fact check and nobody...
I saw two separate stories reposted on facebook this week that deeply disturbed me. Not because the content of the stories were particularly unnerving, but because they both lacked a certain something: any factual accuracy whatsoever.
The first was a supposed piece written by Ben Stein where addresses the so-called “war on Christmas” that conservative Christians love to get their...
The hypocrisy of supposed "nice" guys.
A friend of mine posted a picture on his facebook today and while he isn’t in the situation himself nor does he necessarily agree with sentiment displayed, the image itself is the latest in this strange and creepy trend of these blogs and images circling the internet about the entitlement of the “nice guy.” Here’s the one I saw:
To be honest, it’s pretty funny....
October 2011
4 posts
Living for the flesh.
Despite what the scare tactics of many conservative religious leaders may lead one to believe, it doesn’t always end in an STD and an unwanted pregnancy, usually just a confused and hurt heart.
I'd rather
my tax dollars go to welfare than wealth-fare.
5 tags
Watchmynameistopher:
Here’s a Radiohead cover on my tiny guitar for all you creepy people.
This is my friend Topher. He’s so bloody talented that it makes me angry.
September 2011
4 posts
Why are so many Christians mean?
I’ve had conversation after conversation with many of my non-believing friends about how so many religious people have lost what Christianity is all about: Love. Though many atheists find religion of any sort ludicrous, I’ve found very few that have many problems with the teachings of Jesus. Love others. Don’t judge people. Live a life of non-violence. A lot of secular...
madelained asked: how does this whole thing work?
"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have...
“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I read this quote a few days ago. I really liked it and it’s one that keeps coming up in my mind. If you’re living your life right and trying to abide by the truth, there should be certain people that just hate your guts for it. If you ever feel sad or disheartened by somebody who is unkind to...
July 2011
1 post
The counter-productivity of immature protests.
There are times when groups are oppressed for nothing other than being different and atrocities are occurring that need to be stopped. And then courageous individuals organize peaceful protests that can involve walks, chanting and speeches. Some of the most defining and liberating moments in American (and world) history have occurred at a number of these demonstrations.
And then there are...
June 2011
7 posts
Gay Marriage? Drop it, Christians.
I know, I know, I know. Anybody who has followed my pitiful little blog or known me for the past couple years knows that I’ve addressed this topic a good handful of times. But I think it’s worth mentioning again since New York just legalized gay marriage. I have a message for my fellow evangelical Christians:
Drop the fight against gay marriage.
Not that my voice on this blog...
“I saw the young man over there with eggs Benedict, with hollandaise sauce with...”
– Mitt Romney. (Really)
Can family be used as an emotional crutch for...
I realize the title is a little bit of a mouthful and perhaps a tad overstating, but I think it’s as accurate and condensed as I could do… So please forgive my lack of conciseness.
The biggest machines in America are constantly selling their product through the lens of “what’s best for your family.” Two of these machines being politics and religion. A political...
bitchnshit asked: Hi!
I think you know my friend Stefan Dordic. He showed me your blog a while ago and I think you're absolutely hilarious. I show everyone your Elizabeth Smart/Osama Bin Laden post. Haha.
I think you know my friend Stefan Dordic. He showed me your blog a while ago and I think you're absolutely hilarious. I show everyone your Elizabeth Smart/Osama Bin Laden post. Haha.
May 2011
9 posts
Other great failed "end of world" predictions.
Poor old Harold Camping. Back in 1994, he could probably get away with his prediction with minimal ridicule, unfortunately with the internet, postmodern twenty-somethings and 24-hour news networks bored with talking about Newt Gingrich’s scary-looking third wife, Camping didn’t have a chance! So let’s take some flack off him and look at some other failed apocalyptic faux-prophesies. Martin of...
“Maybe fear is God’s way of saying, ‘Pay attention, this could be fun.’”
– Craig Ferguson (via intelligentchristianity)
Mount Blog: What Jesus Meant →
themount:
Pastor Phil gave me a book to borrow today by Catholic professor and writer Garry Willis called “What Jesus Meant.”
Inside, I read this and had to share it: “G.K. Chesterton said that Christianity has not failed - it has just never been tried. But when it is tried, it is seen as a threat, just…
Hard truth.
Elizabeth Smart, Osama bin Laden and a defense of...
Since we crazy Americans can’t just celebrate the death of somebody for a full week in the streets like other countries, we’ve already discussed the morality of celebrating the death of an enemy, the questionability of burying bin Laden at sea, whether or not we should release death photos, predicting how Donald Trump could find a way to take credit for bin Laden’s death and...
Reacting as a Christian to the death of Osama bin...
A friend of mine texted me that Osama bin Laden had been killed while I was still at church and as several friends of mine and I crossed the street later on that evening, we heard people driving by with all their windows rolled down chanting “OSAMA’S DEAD! U.S.A! U.S.A!” I watched Obama’s speech and videos of people celebrating at Ground Zero, also chanting “U.S.A!...
You, there!
Open up a book and read it!
April 2011
10 posts
Detroit School District.
The teacher, demonized and reduced to a talking point, grits her teeth in anticipation when she is told she will be amongst those who will keep their jobs. She excels slowly, clenches her eyes shut and a few tears trickle down… But this is just the beginning. It seems like the blink of an eye between the time she received the news and the moment she walks into a classrom stuffed, somehow,...
Fast Five kicks ass.
What happens when a Rock meets a Diesel? …Some pretty homoerotic stuff, apparently.
Yup. Despite all the odds against this being a good movie, it kicked some serious ass. There isn’t a moment of plausibility in it, but the plot was surprisingly solid and the characters were engaging despite Paul Walker, but thankfully his lines were kept to a minimum. It’s pretty sad when...
In the theatre, waiting for Fast Five to begin...
Though the first “Fast and the Furious” movie failed to engage even my ADHD-riddled, crazed, pubescent 13 year old self in theatres back when it came out in 2001, here I sit ten years later waiting to see the fifth of these… Films (dare I use that term? Movie seems more appropriate.) I skipped on the well-named 2Fast2Furious, nor did I drift (get it?)along with Tokyo...
“Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of...”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mar. 4, 1933. Heed his words.
Obama Facebook Poll: Ignorance is alive and well!
You may have seen this poll while on facebook the past couple weeks. I voted “Yes” because nobody from the GOP has impressed me too much and I’d like to see how this whole “hopey changey” thing works out.
I made a mistake however, in clicking some of the comments people made. This poll was put up by a facebook page called “Conservative” so...
The word "hipster" no longer means anything.
It’s such a high school girl phrase to use (like “i hate drama), but I really do hate labels. Labels strip people of their humanity and place them into little boxes to be dismissed as “thing A” and not a person with emotions, pain and desires.
It’s funny to make little passing jokes about hipsters— The super condescending kid with a V-neck, skin tight jeans,...
The bad.
I know that there is a lot of good in the world. I really, truly believe that and have seen it with my own eyes.
But right now… The bad is getting to me. I want to scream and pound and cry like a baby that just keeps crying a cry that cannot be comforted by milk, burping or even the lovely rocking from a mother.
The bad — Like how hard it would be it convince senators,...
March 2011
5 posts
The theology of conservative Christianity.
Before anybody has a knee-jerk fit of anger, let me explain what I consider “conservative Christianity.” I know plenty of Christians who consider themselves politically conservative— And that’s just fine. But there seem to be a ubiquitous amount of people out there that mesh their conservatism with their Christianity so that the two are indistinguishable from one...
lesboules asked: woody allen night still needs to happen!
gregsword asked: "In one sense of the word, to think a thing is to think the word that signifies that thing. But in another sense, it is to understand what exactly the things is. God can be thought not to exist in the first sense, but not at all in the second sense. No one who understands what God is can think that God does not exist, although he may say these words in his heart with no signification at all,...