Silly Walks Generator
Spamalot is all the rage these days, but perhaps you'd rather just go do a silly walk. Or perhaps you'd rather just go invent your own silly walk in the privacy of your own home, using this Silly Walks Generator.
The last photo I ever took contest
I know this is offbeat, but some of these photos are compelling. I hope the photographers are OK.
Another good source for freethinker quotes
These (among numerous other quotes) are from a site called “My Favorite Quotes.” Beware, neocons: These quotes might cause you to doubt that the United States was founded as a “Christian” nation! Here are some of my favorites:
- “Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
[Thomas Paine] - “There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice….”.
[Thomas Paine] - “The Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.”
[Abraham Lincoln] - “My earlier views at the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.”
[Abraham Lincoln, letter to Judge J.S. Wakefield, after the death of Willie Lincoln] - “If not an absolute atheist, he had no belief in a future existence. All his ideas of obligation or retribution were bounded by the present life.”
[President John Quincy Adams on Thomas Jefferson, 1831] - “The Christian God is a being of terrific character — cruel, vindictive, capricious, and unjust.”
[Thomas Jefferson, _Jefferson Bible_] - “..our civil rights have no dependance on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry”
[Thomas Jefferson] - “We discover [in the gospels] a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism
Bloggers Need FireFox 2 for Live Spell Checking in Forms
OMG! I just installed the FireFox 2 browser and noticed something. It spell checks form entries as you type! Just as Word and its ilk do in their documents. Since its inception, I'd been using FireFox just because of speed, safety and security advantages. I added the Google toolbar only…
Who Changed the Bible's Narrative Ehrman's Findings
Who changed the Bible and why? Bart Ehrman’s startling answers
How often do we hear people “explaining” religious beliefs by stating “The Bible says so,” as if the Bible fell out of the sky, pre-translated to English by God Himself? It’s not that simple, according to an impressive and clearly-written book that should be required reading for anyone who claims to know “what the Bible says.”
Bart Ehrman’s Exploration: Who Changed the Bible and Why?
The 2005 bestseller, Misquoting Jesus, was not written by a raving atheist. Rather, it was written by a fellow who had a born-again experience in high school, then went on to attend the ultraconservative Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. Bart Ehrman didn’t stop there, however. He wanted to become an evangelical voice with credentials that would enable him to teach in secular settings. It was for this reason that he continued his education at Wheaton and, eventually, Princeton, picking up the ability to read the New Testament in its original Greek in the process.
As a result of his disciplined study, Ehrman increasingly questioned the fundamentalist approach that the “Bible is the inerrant Word of God. It contains no mistakes.” Through his studies, Ehrman determined that the Bible was not free of mistakes:
We have only error ridden copies, and the vast majority of these are centuries removed from the originals and different from them, evidently, in thousands of ways.
(Page 7). At Princeton, Ehrman learned that mistakes had been made in the copying of the New Testament over the centuries. Upon realizing this, …
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