Category: Sundry flakes

Tasty Tidbits 7/22/11

Don’t miss Tidbit number 9.

  1. The legal logic of polygamy.
  2. In the name of Christ, I adjure you, sober and truthful spirit, be gone!
  3. Hey, liberals! Let’s get stupid!
  4. It’s amazing what you can do without nine robed demigods standing in the way.
  5. Naming things.
  6. I think that I shall never see…
  7. I’m going where they appreciate my kind.
  8. You don’t have to dig through garbage to find food.
  9. Bigger than any stinkin’ election.

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Tasty Tidbits 7/6/11

Here’s some Tasty Tidbits for the day:

  1. Casey who?
  2. Cyrus the Above Average.
  3. Bradley who?
  4. How many do you need for a “stampede”?
  5. Nobody here but us Christians, ya’ darned heretics.
  6. Rare earth just became a bit commoner.
  7. Thomas More
  8. Jacknife Theology.
  9. Don’t hold your breath waiting for this 51st State.
  10. Ag-Gag Law?

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Catholicism versus Orthodoxy

A former Calvinist convert to Eastern Orthodox, I nevertheless have for 13 years tried to give Roman Catholicism its due. But having just finished Scott Hahn’s book Rome Sweet Home, where he dismisses Orthodoxy fairly perfunctorily, I rise in brief defense, letting chips fall where they may. Continue reading “Catholicism versus Orthodoxy” →

You can’t make this stuff up

I recently stumbled upon a fundamentalist site, so absurd that it has lingered with me, explaining “why the Apocrypha isn’t in the Bible.” It’s absurd as any patent circular “reasoning” is absurd: the Apocrypha isn’t in the Bible, in substantial part, because it teaches false doctrine. And how does one discern false doctrine? By seeing if it’s in the Bible. Continue reading “You can’t make this stuff up” →

TJ’s Excellent 15 Minutes of Fame

Michael Gerson at the Washington Post has an Op-Ed on — how best to put it? — the insanity of “Pastor” Terry Jones getting his 15 minutes of fame so cheaply.

Gerson is, if I recall correctly, an Evangelical Protestant — perhaps even a Wheaton College Evangelical — so it was interesting to see his spin on why Muslims go postal at a threatened Koran-burning while Christians (a far more equivocal term than you might think, but serviceable in this context) remain pretty mellow about sacrilege Continue reading “TJ’s Excellent 15 Minutes of Fame” →