I have no rap sensibilities, so I have no idea if this would be considered good or bad in style, but the lyrics seem pretentious. I mean seriously:

Where He laid down the law for God-ruled government. Commonly referred to as the Mosaic covenant. Sin was imputed. So for man to know he’s unrighteous, God instituted animal sacrifices. This was to show our constant need for atonement.

Would anyone appreciate that except a room full of theology-obsessed evangelicals?

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I’m always astounded at how poor data-gathering devices we humans are.  Forget all the hallucinations and misinterpretations, we simply don’t notice or retain most of what happens around us.  Here’s a great demonstration (via Richard Wiseman’s blog)

I was pretty pathetic. How did you all do?

This is one of the reasons we developed the scientific method. Trusting our senses and powers of observation failed us too many times. We recognize our own shortcomings and try to overcome them.

Those of you who also follow my posts at FriendlyAtheist know I’m a huge fan of Neil deGrasse Tyson. I think he’s an excellent science communicator and role model. He’s so enthusiastic about science and he makes others interested through his exuberance.

Back story (taken from the youtube info):

TIME recently went to interview Neil deGrasse Tyson and we noticed a huge crate had been delivered to his office. He was then kind enough to open it on-camera. The back story of this gift is that Neil was adamant that ABC News include the Saturn V Rocket on its list of The 7 Wonders of America. The folks at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama were so grateful, they sent Neil a replica.

I’ve watched this several times and I still find myself compelled to smile each time.  Learning things is fun, but Tyson manages to have fun while inspiring a sense of awe and wonder.

[Holding his new model of the Saturn V] This and only this is the only piece of hardware to ever take humans to another world.   The space shuttle… is cool, but it goes into Earth orbit -- you’re still attached to the earth.  This thing gets you off of Earth into space… to another world.

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I submit to you that this is the crowning achievement of human ingenuity and the fulfillment of dreams in the history of what it is to be human.

Wonderful.

Okay, maybe it’s not really R — quick, flee, there’s a drunken man in the house!

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Glad I didn’t grow up in that home.

The Trinity doesn’t make any sense, but that’s just evidence it’s true. If it made sense, we’d know it was made up by a bunch of theologians. But if it still doesn’t make sense after 2,000 years, we can take comfort it’s God’s Own Truth. Hallelujah!

But just to clarify… that doesn’t mean the things about God that do make sense aren’t true. Those are true too.

Because the Bible says so.

And they’re not made up, either.

Otherwise they wouldn’t be in the Bible.

“Right leg, grow in Jesus name”… What a crock. Notice they never provide real medical evidence of any of this — no before/after x-rays.  And they never do things like this on anyone who has very uneven legs or are cripples. Because you can’t stretch and shift the body to compensate for what didn’t happen.

I’m sure there’s a Democrat version, too…

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