She was never really Christian,
Any fool can plainly see—
Not a born-again believer
In the Holy Book, like me!… [Read more…]
The Digital Cuttlefish
Since the music plays so briefly... Can you blame me if I dance?
She was never really Christian,
Any fool can plainly see—
Not a born-again believer
In the Holy Book, like me!… [Read more…]
The Fortnight For Freedom has drawn to a close
As the church has been fighting for freedom—
The Bishops have lobbied to take away rights
From the women, who don’t really need ‘em.
They still have the freedom to follow the church,
To submit to the will of their masters
To leave the decisions to men of the cloth,
To the rabbis and mullahs and pastors… [Read more…]
I plotted out the data points
And tried to comprehend—
The numbers were persuasive
But I didn’t like the trend
It’s time to do some pruning
Of the points where something’s wrong
So I’m looking for the ones that don’t belong… [Read more…]
It’s God’s love that gives you meaning
It’s God’s love that gives you worth
So there isn’t any reason
To respect you here on earth
In a world without a purpose
In a world without a God
You’re respected as a person…
This is somehow seen as odd.
(rant follows:) [Read more…]
Tune: “Faith of our fathers”
Faith of our presidents, on display
So proudly worn upon their sleeve
It doesn’t matter what they do;
What matters is that they believe
(refrain)
Faith of our presidents, pious faith!
Loudly proclaimed with every breath.… [Read more…]
A long one today, but it had to be said.
Over at WWJTD, JT fields one of the classic apologetic arguments from incredulity:
there are things that are undeniably real (like love, ambition, sympathy) but do not stand up to scientific rigor. We live in a world appointed with these things (love, ambition, sympathy) and they would be real even if science did not exist to explain them.
Anyone who has not seen that argument thrown around, welcome to the internet, and how have you enjoyed your first few hours here? [Read more…]
The media disparity
Is mostly due to rarity—
It’s “man bites dog” for headlines, but it’s “dog bites man”, page four.
And the “major blogger” narrative?
An ill-advised comparative;
It’s missing its criteria—but truth is such a bore… [Read more…]
We practice, and practice, and practice some more
With weight-training workouts, and sprints by the score
Though I don’t really know what we do it all for—
Which makes all this effort seem odd
We work through more pain than we care to admit;
The coaches and trainers, as well, do their bit,
In the end though, we know that it doesn’t mean shit—
We’re giving the credit to God. [Read more…]
The Philadelphia church abuse trial has ended, and the jury has returned a guilty verdict for the highest ranking priest thus far. Not surprisingly, Bill Donohue of the Catholic League is using the verdict to show how utterly unhinged from reality he is: [Read more…]
A Fortnight for Freedom, the bishops declare,
Will show liberty under attack;
For too many years now, the church has lost ground
And it’s time to start taking it back… [Read more…]