Posts Tagged: Jesus Christ
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Just Give Reddit A Few More Decades, They'll Crack This Boston Thing Yet

Entrepreneur Jason Calacanis made the call yesterday to speculate and crowdsource about the Boston bombings—"'Shut up and let the cops do their job’ in the case of a terrorist attack is EXACTLY wrong"—but he needn't worry, Reddit is all over it. They have a spreadsheet even! So let's find out how the nice folks at /findbostonbombers are doing.

• "I hate to even bring up this point, but when I have seen videos of radical Islamists yelling 'allahu akbar' in the past, I seem to recall seeing them make something like the pinched thumb and forefingers gesture he is making in the second picture."

• "also could it [...]

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"Baby Jesus Stolen" Nativity News Watch 2012

According to the latest tally on Google News, there are 2,803 current media reports involving stolen Baby Jesuses from nativity scenes. This represents a [made up percentage] increase in nativity infant thefts over 2011, which had held the previous record with [made up number] documented desecrations of Christmas scenes. Many are wondering just how low we can go, as a species. If children and other pranksters think it's "okay" to lift a plastic baby with a hole in its bottom for a colored light bulb, then what else might people do, given the chance?

"It is one thing, I guess, to steal even the shepherd or a king," said [...]

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Dinner List Unlikely

I suppose it's possible that somebody once might have said, "Jesus Christ, George W. Bush, you're no Winston Churchill," but other than that I have a hard time ever imagining those three names in the same sentence, let alone as ideal dining companions.

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Thank You Jesus For America

"If Jesus Christ had never been born, there would be no United States of America."

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Jesus: The Beardless Years

"Cleanshaven Jesus" would be a good name for a band.

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Land of the Rising Son

"According to the story, he apparently lived to the ripe old age of 106 in Japan, where he was buried in what is now modern-day Shingo. He changed his name to Daitenku Taro Jurai, married a Japanese woman, Miyuki, and had three daughters, according to an English-language pamphlet offered in a small chapel on a forested hill in the village." —Take a visit to the town where Jesus Christ, after escaping his crucifixion by boat, lived out the rest of his days.

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Jesus Pops Up In The Oddest Places

He's on a sock in Shropshire.

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After 650,000 Page Views, CNN Decides Atheist Mom Is Okay After All

An atheist mom's blog post on CNN.com was so controversial—imagine being a mother and not teaching your child to worship Jesus—that editors nearly removed the offending material. But the Texas mom's reasons for raising her Texan child without religion "struck a chord," meaning it went viral on the Internet. Some 650,000 page views later, there was a change of heart at CNN.com. Maybe an atheist mom should be allowed to keep her child, after all.

This week, she gained a whole new audience and the reassurance that she's not alone. Her essay on CNN iReport, “Why I Raise My Children Without God,” drew 650,000 page views, the [...]

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No Darts For Jesus

"A man is escorted by security from a televised darts match after being taunted by the crowd – because he looked like Jesus." Verily, verily, I say unto you, there is video.

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Bunny Still Dead

How did you celebrate Easter? I personally welcomed our Lord's return by drinking an unwise amount, a decision for which I am currently paying the inevitable price. But, you know, it's the resurrection; if you're not gonna rejoice in that, what are you going to rejoice in? Anyway, He is risen. As this news report points out, the same thing can't be said for the bunny. This morning I am feeling a lot more like the bunny than the other guy.

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The Only Tim Tebow Column You Need

If you are wondering what a Tim Tebow is but don't have time to examine the voluminous coverage surrounding him of late, this should get you caught up.

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The Endless Drone War in Pakistan

"A group of Pakistanis met in Islamabad late last month to discuss the impact of U.S. drone strikes in their communities. One of the attendees was a 16-year-old boy named Tariq Aziz who had volunteered to learn photography to begin documenting drone strikes near his home. Within 72 hours of the meeting Aziz was killed in a U.S. drone strike. His 12-year-old cousin was also killed in the Oct. 31 attack." U.S. drones have killed 175 children. (via)

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The Tea Party Folks Are Mostly Just Christian Soldiers

"Next to being a Republican, the strongest predictor of being a Tea Party supporter today was a desire, back in 2006, to see religion play a prominent role in politics. And Tea Partiers continue to hold these views: they seek 'deeply religious' elected officials, approve of religious leaders’ engaging in politics and want religion brought into political debates. The Tea Party’s generals may say their overriding concern is a smaller government, but not their rank and file, who are more concerned about putting God in government." Much as we described to you in vivid detail yesterday, the hard data also shows that the Tea Party has little [...]

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Jesus Was The David Beckham Of The Middle Ages

"In the Middle Ages it would have been greeted in the same way that David Beckham's sweaty shirt would be greeted today." —British Museum curator James Robinson explains the appeal of the Mandylion of Edessa, a washcloth that supposedly shows the face of Jesus Christ. The "holy towel" will go on display in Britain this June. The Jesus of our age, meanwhile, spent yesterday buying British foodstuffs in Los Angeles. He was not wearing a button-down shirt.

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American Religion On Its Death Bed, Going To Hell Soon

Only a decade ago, it seemed horrifyingly certain that the United States was the exclusive realm of screeching old white people who defined themselves by their consumption of guns, gasoline and corn-syrup anusburgers. The president was a blue-blooded Yale (and Harvard!) man who successfully acted like a moronic Texan suburban cowboy who was always either giggling over his ability to execute retarded people or crying about Jesus. A once smart nation seemed to be operated entirely from shoddily constructed stucco megachurches on the exurban fringe of the world's ugliest sunbelt sprawl. It was depressing, but it was also probably the peak of all that awful bullshit. The "Nones"—[...]

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The Day They Got Jesus

Remember back in January when everyone was so delighted by that dude's discovery of the date on which Ice Cube had a good day? Well, prepare to be equally ecstatic for the news that another good day has been dated… Good Friday, to be exact. Researchers believe that Jesus, as described in the New Testament, was crucified on Friday April 3, 33 A.D. Textual and geological clues, along with astronomical data, support the date. Scientists acknowledge that natural events described in the Bible could be allegorical.

"Could be allegorical" indeed. Anyway, mark your calendars.

Photo by Binkski, via Shutterstock

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The Loveliest Lynchee Was Our Lord

You know who else wore a hoodie?

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Jesus Toaster Deftly Appeals To America's Love Of God, Tacky Commercial Crap

"Treat the toast with reverence." Truer words, etc.

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Happy 6015th Birthday, Planet Earth!

NOTHING brings me greater pleasure than WorldNetDaily's email list. Today's subject line: "Earth's 6015th birthday this year!" It's an important way to keep in touch with the Other America. (Maybe I'll actually buy this book, too! After all? "This is one of the most important literary, historical and Christian works you'll ever own, a treasure for any home library. It's a must for your homeschool library.")

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What I Learned in Two Years at the Tea Party

When I started going to Tea Party meetings two years ago, I was sympathetic. Just after attending one in North Dakota in August of 2009, I wrote: "Most tea partiers are not bad people. They're just mad. In many meaningful ways, today's Tea Party attendees' lives have gotten consistently worse for the last 20 years, regardless of which party was in power." I concluded that trying to figure out what they wanted was a dead end because what they wanted was simply to complain—that the Tea Party "is not a group of listen and respond; this is a group of respond and respond."

Two years of Tea Party functions [...]