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    If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men you may make some money and you may give someone a little joy and you may make a noise in the world, for a little while. If you write only for yourself you can read what you yourself have written and after ten minutes you will be so disgusted you will wish that you were dead.

    - Thomas Merton, from New Seeds of Contemplation

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    Archive for the "Weirdness" Category

    Suffer the little children: Bees sting you because you’re naughty

    Bombus terrestris, 1978. 10-dinar stamp from the Soviet days. Image source: Animal Kingdom I have recently stumbled upon a most depressing trove of nonsense at the Answers in Genesis website. As its name implies, AiG is all about answers. They love answers, which is why they love the Bible so much. The Bible, as we [...]

    The wages of sin is plate tectonics

    Here’s a nice elevation map of our poor fractured home planet. Click on the image for a detailed look. Notice in particular (1) the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the S-shaped mountain range running from the extreme South Atlantic all the way up to Iceland and beyond, and opening up at an average rate of 2.5 cm per [...]

    Living and loving in the multiverse, or, the trouble with Jesus as a dolphin

    Guglielmo, Jorge in Wonderland, 2007. Jorge Luis Borges is the author of The Garden of Forking Paths, published in 1941. It is one of the earliest literary uses of the idea of parallel universes. The idea now carries a degree of scientific respect, a reality that we here at psnt.net are having a hard time [...]

    And now for something completely different: Texas firing squad executes Santa for Jesus

    Click on the image for an entertaining video. Posted on YouTube by Repent Amarillo: “We are the Special Forces of spiritual warfare, and we’re looking for a few good warriors.” Goodness! This video brings up so many thoughts, it’s hard to keep track of them. Should I follow the Christian militia thread? Or the one [...]

    On Hitchens, Brueggeman, and religious weirdness

    Billboards with this jaunty message are scheduled to appear in the ATL this week. Image source: wecanknow.com What is it with the blue nativity-themed billboards this season? First, our friends at American Atheists puts up a billboard about how the nativity is a myth, and now this. The assault has already started in places like [...]

    Two by two came the epidexipteryxes and vulcanodons

    Noah and his family loading up the menagerie as their neighbors stare in disbelief. I don’t know who created the original image or who doctored it up so nicely with velociraptors, tyrannosaurs, pterodactyls, and whatever that weird black-and-white thing is on the left. If you do know, please advise. I try pretty hard to get [...]

    This just in: Bible proves Einstein wrong

    The left-wing rabble-rouser, anti-truth conspirator, and Bible-unbeliever at his home in Princeton, NJ in 1950. Only a liberal agitator would wear shoes like that Friends, I had to create a new category, weirdness, for this one. I really love it when people of some prominence say things without thinking about it first. In this case [...]