Morgan Spurlock, filmmaker and creator of the successful fast food critical documentary Super Size Me, has a groundbreaking program running on the cable network FX called 30 Days. The premise of the show goes like this: every episode details the journey of one person, either Spurlock or another willing participant,…
For centuries, of course, people had been praying for God to return to Earth. He came back all right, but it was so very different than most people expected. It happened on October 3, 2009. I remember it like it was yesterday . . .
It had been quite cloudy that day, but the clouds parted to reveal a huge marquee announcing that God would appear within five minutes. During this short wait, pastel patterns swirled across the skies while Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue” played lushly from the heavens. Then, God’s image began to appear on thousands of monitors that appeared in the sky. Everyone on the Earth was about see this spectacle simultaneously.
As you might expect with seven billion people, it took awhile to get everyone calmed down. The preachers were especially excited; most of them were wearing big smug smiles as they strutted about. “This is it!” many of them barked.
God cleared his throat and everyone waited, for what seemed to be an eternity, for His first words.
“Hello,” He boomed.
Many of you have referred to me by the name “God” or “Allah” or “The Force.” I don’t really have any sort of body and thus I’ve never had any sort of sex organ. Nonetheless, I’m presenting myself to you in the shape of an old man. I thought this might make this presentation easier for many of you.
The preachers stopped strutting so much, and started to look perplexed.
“You’re probably wondering …
I saw a phrase today that made me think--The Darwinist Cause. Now, I'm sure I've seen it or heard it before, but it's one of those taglines opponents to certain worldviews use to instigate absurd debates (which turn out not to be debates but drubbing sessions wherein they hope to…
The following is from Bill Moyer's interview with Rev. Joseph C. Hough on October 24th, 2003. Rev. Hough, is President of the Faculty and a Professor of Social Ethics at the Union Theological Seminary: HOUGH: . . . anybody who claims in the name of God they're gonna run over…
Gosh. If you've publicly shown yourself to be especially prone to dysfunctional cognition and flights of fantasy for many years, you can get yourself a big headline by merely stating the obvious. Here's the story from Reuters: Conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson said on Thursday the wave of scorching temperatures across…