Overheard

“We knew, finally, the the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.”

“If you don’t like what’s being said, change the conversation.”

“Turning the other cheek turns out to have selfish advantages. Someone who does you an injury hurts you twice: first by the injury itself, and second by taking up your time afterward thinking about it. If you learn to ignore injuries you can at least avoid the second half.”

“so you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts / what’s so amazing about really deep thoughts”

“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.”

Comments

I think you can be good, just, violent and punishing all at the same time, and I don’t think many thinking Christians would argue that their God was non-violent or non-judgmental.

Things get very confusing, though, when you combine your standard peace-loving Jesus with your fire-and-brimstone God. The Bible says that they’re one, yet separate. I have yet to work that out, and I’m not optimistic that I will.

That said, the Old Testament (plus Revelations) God sure is nutty. You’ll note that the vast majority of the weird stuff happens in the Old Testament plus Revelations.

Posted by Darren  at  3:20 pm on Nov. 24, 2006

Hmm. Humanists live in a glass house on this issue, those walls having been built by the atheist trinity of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

Where is the good and just atheist politician humanists say could exist?

I kid, of course, and blaming Humanism for the acts of the three most famous attempts to drive humanity to a utopian future absent any need for God should TOTALLY not count against their score.

For some reason, I’m sure.

Posted by Ryan Cousineau  at  5:40 pm on Nov. 25, 2006

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