Colbert

I noticed that Jesus managed to go about his business with minimal third party collateral. He tossed some money changers around, but he did't stop them changing money, in fact, its unclear exactly how much weight he really tossed around. Otherwise he managed to go about his kingdom of god without hurting or destroying people, without leaving sadness and/or destruction in his wake. Pretty elegant for the most well known political rebel before Che Guevara and the Founding Fathers.

What happened to this technique? pretty sordid history from Augustine onward on that whole application of force, and breaking people down to save their souls thing.

Paganism, And Christianity. Dates and Theory.

While this guy isn't exactly tactful, or even necessarily correct on where all these names come from, he does bring up a good point. So much of what we think of Christianity today was co-opted from pagan rites. The best known, and most beloved is the Christmas tree. The tree was originally a druidic tradition, meant to celebrate mother nature. Ever wondered why Christmas falls when it does? nobody knows the exact age or birthdate of Christ, so why celebrate it then? ever noticed how it sits right on the winter solstice? yet another pagan ritual grabbed for PR in Christianity's early days. The list goes on, incense was a largely pagan tradition before it was used by christianity.

Also one last thing, a "theory" is a set of observations or processes which we have a solid evidence base or logical train of conclusions that heavily suggest they are true. What separates it from a law is scope applicability, a law is simply an observation and is undeniably true, a theory explains things and could potentially be false, but the observations it rests upon must be true.

Seriously, where do you dig these people up? Every time I see one of these wackos like red crossed out man here, it just drains a little more of me and replaces it with cynicism and bad attempts at dry wit.

When in Rome, Hope the Ancient Romans are Gone.

I don't think people often do enough justice to what a political rebel Jesus truly was. he didn't come from a position of power politically, he didn't have laws (the laws of nations anyways) or armies (human armies anyways) backing him up, he just went out there and stuck it to the Romans because Rome was the America of then. Those guys you love to hate they were oppressive and hegemonic. Can you imagine how happy he'll be to see those guys are gone and now we're here?

Saturday morning breakfast cereal for everyone

I wouldn't feel right without leaving some Saturday Morning Breakfast cereal lying around, so here's a relatively new one.

has anyone ever really considered what a weird dude Jesus really was? People are hungry? He decides to bust the rules of division instead of like, enriching Palestinian farm land. Got some free time? goes around touching people's feet and washing them. About to endure brutal death at the hands of an indifferent empire when you supposedly have the entirety of heaven on speed dial? "Nah guys, it's cool, I got this.", he couldn't have thought of something... i dunno... less torture to go through for his kicks and giggles? Not to mention, a crown of thorns is really just tacky with robes. Personally I don't find this comic so far out of the range of possibility.

Commedy, Social Message, and Deadpan Snarking. What's not to Love?

Going along with that little West Wing clip with snarky crap I wish I could get away with,here's Russel Brand taking on the Westboro Baptist Church, those wonderful people who trash tolerance and love, and funnily enough get none. Take 'em down a peg for me please Russel.

They should've known better than to try and take on a guy who could likely beat Jesus in a Jesus-Look-Alike contest.