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Sometimes it makes sense...
Daystar, TBN ready for Messiah in Jerusalem
If the Messiah descends from the Mount of Olives as foretold in the Bible, America’s two biggest Christian broadcasters are well-positioned to cover it live thanks to recent acquisitions of adjacent Jerusalem studios on a hill overlooking the Old City.
Texas-based Daystar Television Network already beams a 24-hour-a-day live webcam from its terrace. Not to be outdone, Costa Mesa-based Trinity Broadcasting Network last month bought the building next door.
I guess it’s like C-Span for the second coming? Not surprising, both their presence and their accompanying missionary work have proved controversial. Best sentence in the article:
“Christianity is not represented in Israel as well as it could,” he said. “We hope to equalize that and give Christianity a better platform.”
So Christianity has a “representation issue” in Israel? Huh.
Did you know Anne Frank was a Mormon?
Yeah, neither did Anne. She was baptized as a Mormon by the LDS Church years after her death. This is apparently a common practice by Mormons - postmortem baptizing so that a person’s soul can go to their concept of Heaven.
It’s been a controversial practice, and recently made some news with the baptism of Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor.
“We are outraged that such insensitive actions continue in the Mormon Temples,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. “Further meetings with Church leaders on this matter are useless.”
It’s an interesting story.
It is man’s intelligence that makes him so often behave more stupidly than the beasts. … Man is impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic. Thus, no animal is clever enough, when there is a drought, to imagine that the rain is being withheld by evil spirits, or as punishment for its transgressions. Therefore you never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. No horse, for example would kill one of its foals to make the wind change direction. Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat’s meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, intelligent enough.
(via libraryland)
This $10 Tip Is Not The Best Way To Show Your Gratitude To Your Server
Mean!! Just mean.
I just lol’d
