My life is different than yours. You just don't realize by how much. Today I will give you a helpful example. You already know that I am friends with a man who knits his nipples together for a living. What you do not know is that I am also friends with a priest. See? I bet you don't have two friends like that. Anyway, the father is a very nice man and has tolerated me for years. Yesterday he asked for some advice about videotaping a group of kindergardeners who were going to be performing Jesus Christ Superstar. I kid. They were going to be performing the Happy Teeth song. An epic in its own right, to be sure. Anyway, during the course of our … [Read more...]
Bible Study, Hippo Style
December 1, 2011 by
The Bible is, if I may use this word, an evolving text. Discoveries have been made that have forced scholars and lay people alike to reconsider what it all means. If we ignore the many politicized revisions of the King James Bible we have a pretty good starting point to base any discoveries on. The same holds true for the Talmud, which was edited and revised to become the Old Testament in the Christian Bible. The Holy Qu'Ran is a different animal. It was, according to Islamic tradition, dictated directly to the Prophet Muhammad by the angel Jibril (Gabriel in western cultures) and was formalized by Caliph Uthman barely twenty years after … [Read more...]
They’re Not Monkeying Around
July 11, 2011 by
We are truly living in interesting times. In this country alone there are more states where you can marry your first cousin than there are where you can marry your soul mate. It's as though we live in some looking glass world where everything's sideways to common sense. There are those who argue, without laughing, that allowing same sex marriages would open the door to man/sheep weddings. I can't see that really being an issue outside of Montana, but some people claim there's biblical precedent so that justifies their stance. They must have a different copy of the Bible than I do. They do lots of stuff with sheep in it, but most of it … [Read more...]
