Gary Ablett:
“For some time after it I used to worry about what people thought, until one day Jesus spoke to me and said, ‘Gary, most people don’t even know who they are, let alone who you are, so why should you worry about what they think?’
After that it gets weird.
(crossposted on my campaign blog)
A religious group, The Australian Christian Lobby, recently sent out a questionnaire to parties running in the upcoming election on a range of political issues . Many of the questions, predictably, are related to issues considered important by Christians, but they are questions that most people have an opinion on nevertheless.
Go [...]
Ten bible verses that rarely get a run on Sunday. Highlight:
Then Saul said, “Thus shall you say to David, ‘The king desires no bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. And when [...]
KANO, Nigeria — A suspected large-scale polio outbreak was reported Friday among children in a heavily Muslim northern Nigeria state that had boycotted immunization campaigns, and local authorities appealed for urgent action to stop the spread.
The suspected outbreak was in Kano state, one of several in northern Nigeria that had shunned polio vaccination drives [...]
Since Tim Blair’s regular ask an Imam feature seems to be on hiatus, let me fill the void with this handy titbit of Islamic law:
Question: My question is, what does the holy book Quran and prophet Mohammad (pbuh) say about anal sex even if the wife agrees to experience this with her husband?
Thank you
Answer: [...]
THE church risked becoming irrelevant and boring to many people and needed to modernise the Christian message, the leader of Australia’s Anglicans said in his Easter message today.
Crooked Timber is running a googlebombing campaign:
It seems that the top-ranked site on Google if you search for ?Jew? is an anti-semitic site. So this is CT doing our googlebombing best to correct this by linking to the Wikipedia entry for Jew instead.
I went to the site to take a look, and found this interesting [...]
On this day, about 2000 years ago, a guy called Jesus wasn’t born. Jesus’ true birthday was much earlier in the year - the site above puts it in August. The most likely origin of Christmas involves evangelists converting an existing festival called Saturnalia into a Christian celebration. So what was this Saturnalia?
Saturnalia (from the [...]
Indonesia is planning to update its legal code with some long-needed sharia:
Cohabitation, oral sex and homosexual sex will soon become crimes in Indonesia if the justice ministry has its way, a ministry spokesman said.
He said in addition to Dutch colonial law, the proposed amended criminal code will also adopt Islamic law, international conventions and [...]
In the interest of offending all religions equally, allow me to introduce possibly the greatest use of Lego ever: The Brick Testament.
Lots of good bible stories here, illustrated with Lego men. My personal favourite, and soon to be yours, is the touching family tale of The Seduction Of Lot. Enjoy.
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