Via Paleojudaica, an article about how the famous Jerusalem Syndrome is on the decline:
Katz distinguishes two types of illness: One where seemingly normal people arrive in the city and undergo a sort of religious conversion, whereby they actually become a biblical figure. Most of these persons are Pentecostals from rural regions in the USA and [...]
God has asked me to gather the Rainbow Tribe. God the Creator of this place we live on wants all his children to know that religion is fine but what is really important is every single persons individual connection to Spirit, the Universe, the one who created our whole existence. [...]
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by VorJack
From a New York Times story about the lengths that the Boy Scouts are going to in order to attract new members:
An inflatable mosque provides a place for Muslim scouts to worship.
There’s just something about the concept of an inflatable mosque…
Ed Martin, a republican candidate in Misery (pronouced Missouri), tells us of the danger of the growth of government:
And that’s one of the things that’s most destructive about the growth of government. It’s this taking away of that freedom. The freedom — the ultimate freedom, to find your salvation, to get your salvation. And to find Christ, [...]
by VorJack
Over at Religion in American history, Michael Altman has some reaction to an interview with Bear Grylls, star of the Discovery Channel’s Man vs. Wild. When Grylls claims to be non-religious, but gets effusive about Jesus, Altman reflects:
This split between Jesus and religion fascinates me. In the early 19th century American Christians [...]
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by VorJack
Ian over at Irreducible Complexity gives a great summary of half the plots from Science Fiction shows:
“Oh no, there’s a blurflurgh!”
“What’s a blurflurgh?”
“A blurflurgh is the only thing that can destroy the universe, we can’t let the blurflurgh flemmoxate.”
“It’s flemmoxating.”
“Its okay, I have a praxindoodle, which prevents the flemmoxate of the blurflurgh destroying the [...]
All of this brings up a strange inconsistency to the opponents of same-sex marriage. Their ends — every child gets a mom and a dad — are strangely mismatched to their means — prohibit same-sex marriage. It’s sort of like banning bad moustaches to stop pornography. Perhaps there’s some vague association, but that’s about it.
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