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Your holy hearsay is not evidence
Give me the good news in the present tense. . .
So shut the Bible up and show me how
The Christ you talk about is living now.
Your holy hearsay is not evidence
Give me the good news in the present tense. . .
So shut the Bible up and show me how
The Christ you talk about is living now.
I just ran across a paper I did Sr. year in college in a Catholicism class. I thought it was a pretty good summary of where I still stand on many issues and it gave a pretty good snapshot of the Church in the meantime… It also has lots of big words which I probably…
DetailsI added a new list of links in the sidepane, this time of the highlights of Sola Nobilitas Virtus. Kinda just the best things I feel I have written, or those which are the most pertinent to contemporary issues (not all of the writing was apparently created equally). They are the following, and I have…
DetailsDean Kamen is a badass inventor: + How Many People Have Ever Lived On Earth? Year Population Births per 1,000 Births Between Benchmarks 50,000 B.C. 2 – – 8000 B.C. 5,000,000 80 1,137,789,769 1 A.D. 300,000,000 80 46,025,332,354 1200 450,000,000 60 26,591,343,000 1650 500,000,000 60 12,782,002,453 1750 795,000,000 50 3,171,931,513 1850 1,265,000,000 40 4,046,240,009 1900…
DetailsIt is talking about a bank, but I really think it is a better metaphor for something else that has much more power over our lives…
WANT:
An InsideCatholic article addresses just this truth: Scarry’s analysis goes further. In The Body in Pain, she shows how torture violates every single aspect of the created world: “The contents of the [torture] room, its furnishings, are converted into weapons: the most common instance of this is the bathtub that figures prominently in the reports…
DetailsGive me an African-American president who knows that because his ancestors lived in Africa, they were deemed non-persons and unworthy of human rights and dignity. Give me an African-American president whose ancestors were derided as ‘monkeys’ and ‘apes’ because of their skin color and facial features. Such a president would know that a person’s humanity…
DetailsObama continues to allow the assassination of U.S. citizens. Reminds me of a picture: Aaaaaand other things: Nerdy as it is, I am fascinated by the WOW! signal, a signal from space that could have been transmitted by intelligent life. Read a rundown of it here. I don’t know what I think of the moral…
DetailsBishop Fulton Sheen on the Divine Sense of Humor (in 3 parts):
I thought I was done blogging for the day, and then I ran across this video while talking to a friend, THE FREAKING STAR OF THE SHOW. Apparently, Emma Harrison, the friend who I blogged about a few days ago because she started an online fashion store, is everywhere. This time, she is the star…
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