“Simply too violent”
The Christian religion has a major challenge: the politically correct, candy-ass tendency within its midst.
http://www.townhall.com/blog/g/01d9afa6-85c1-4cf0-a0d7-982e1b7ee34f
I’ve been thinking about how I would have a discussion about all this with - ummm, let’s just say, any number of people who are in the inner circle of my life. I think I would enter into it with this: ”That Jesus of Nazareth was arrested on a Thursday night while praying in the garden at Gesthemane and spent the next sixteen or so hours undergoing the most horrible torture and humiliation imaginable is an established historical fact. So is the fact that on the following Sunday morning, his tomb was found empty and he was later found to be in the company of several of his disciples and followers. It may take the human race the rest of its existence on this planet to completely get its brain around the significance of that, but one has to start with accepting and engaging it. Anything less is mere fooling around.”
March 23rd, 2008 at 12:42 am
Well, at least He wasn’t waterboarded. (Is there room for humor here?)
March 23rd, 2008 at 1:36 am
File under: Hee hee
March 23rd, 2008 at 1:34 pm
n his twice-yearly “Urbi et Orbi” (to the city and the world) message delivered after the Mass, the pope decried “the many wounds that continue to disfigure humanity in our own day.”
yada, yada, yada….
VATICAN CITY (Reuters)
2 hours, 4 minutes ago
“These are the scourges of humanity, open and festering in every corner of the planet, although they are often ignored and sometimes deliberately concealed; wounds that torture the souls and bodies of countless of our brothers and sisters,” (Pope Benedict XVI) said.
He called for “an active commitment to justice … in areas bloodied by conflict and wherever the dignity of the human person continues to be scorned and trampled” before wishing the world a happy Easter in 63 languages.
“It is hoped that these are precisely the places where gestures of moderation and forgiveness will increase!,” he said, specifically mentioning Darfur, Somalia, the Holy Land, Iraq, Lebanon and Tibet.
March 23rd, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Where are you little star (of Bethlehem)?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080321/ap_on_sc/exploding_star_1
Fri Mar 21, 3:01 PM ET
WASHINGTON - The explosion of a star halfway across the universe was so huge it set a record for the most distant object that could be seen on Earth by the naked eye. The aging star, in a previously unknown galaxy, exploded in a gamma ray burst 7.5 billion light years away, its light finally reaching Earth early Wednesday. The gamma rays were detected by NASA’s Swift satellite at 2:12 a.m. “We’d never seen one before so bright and at such a distance,” NASA’s Neil Gehrels said. It was bright enough to be seen with the naked eye.
March 23rd, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Poem: “The Dream” by Irving Feldman, from Collected Poems 1954-2004. © Schocken Books, 2004.
The Dream
Once, years after your death, I dreamt
you were alive and that I’d found you
living once more in the old apartment.
But I had taken a woman up there
to make love to in the empty rooms.
I was angry at you who’d borne and loved me
and because of whom I believe in heaven.
I regretted your return from the dead
and said to myself almost bitterly,
“For godsakes, what was the big rush,
couldn’t she wait one more day?”
And just so daily somewhere Messiah
is shunned like a beggar at the door because
someone has something he wants to finish
or just something better to do, something
he prefers not to put off forever
—some little pleasure so deeply wished
that Heaven’s coming has to seem bad luck
or worse, God’s intruding selfishness!
But you always turned Messiah away
with a penny and a cake for his trouble
—because wash had to be done, because
who could let dinner boil over and burn,
because everything had to be festive for
your husband, your daughters, your son.
March 23rd, 2008 at 7:31 pm
surge turned into dirge this Easter day, pay no mind…
On Violent Iraq Easter, 57 killed
By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer
4 minutes ago
BAGHDAD - Rockets and mortars pounded Baghdad’s U.S.-protected Green Zone Sunday and a suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi army post in the northern city of Mosul in a surge of attacks that killed at least 57 people nationwide. The latest violence underscored the fragile security situation and the resilience of both Sunni and Shiite extremist groups as the war enters its sixth year and the U.S. death toll in the conflict approaches 4,000. Attacks in Baghdad probably stemmed from rising tensions between rival Shiite groups — some of whom may have been behind the Green Zone blasts. It was the most sustained assault in months against the nerve center of the U.S. mission.