What is this about?

…..a political entrepreneur across the Atlantic is getting on the bus ad wagon. Pamela Geller, a conservative blogger (and, thus, anomaly) in Manhattan, has a particular gripe against Islam. Together with Stop the Islamization of America, a New York-based organization, Geller made an ad buy voicing her concern….

Anyone got any thoughts on this?

Taken from the ‘Killing the Buddha’ blog – read the full article here.

Is it me?

I must admit, I find this difficult to come to terms with:

First Baptist Church of Dallas has raised more than $115 million for a new campus, surpassing what any Protestant megachurch has ever collected toward a project.

Pastor Robert Jeffress called it a miracle, especially for a congregation that’s a fraction of the size of some of the largest churches in the country.

“Let’s never forget our Red Sea moment as a church,” he said Sunday after the capital campaign result was announced. “For generations to come people will look at May 16, 2010, as the day God parted the Red Sea and performed a miracle for the First Baptist Church of Dallas, a miracle that should fill our hearts with gratitude toward God and faith for the future.”

That is a lot of money to spend on a building!

I wonder if anyone in leadership at First Baptist Church of Dallas considered bucking the trend and using the money to feed the hungry, house the homeless and heal the sick?  Now that really would have had an impact on downtown Dallas!

What do you think?

What is this about?  Bizarre or what?

Late last week, there was a car accident in Massachusetts, USA, with holy implications. Patrick Johnson in The Republic reports:

A 20-year-old Pittsfield driver was cited by police Tuesday after she ran down Lord Jesus Christ in a marked crosswalk at Main Street and Strong Avenue, police said.Brittany E. Cantarella was cited for a crosswalk violation, said Northampton police Capt. Scott Savino.

Christ, 50, of Belchertown, was taken to Cooley Dickinson Hospital for treatment of minor injuries following the 3:30 p.m. accident. He was treated at the hospital and then released.

Cantarella was making a left turn from Strong Avenue onto Main Street when her car, a 2005 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, struck Christ.

Christ was in a marked crosswalk at the time of the accident, Savino said.

Savino said officers checked Christ’s identification at the scene and confirmed it was his legal name.

Taken from Killing the Buddha here.

“The sponsors of these bills, all of them Republicans and outspoken conservative Christians, claim that preventing the forced implantation of microchips is a civil rights issue: they seek to protect citizens from unwanted bodily intrusions by employers and especially what they depict as a big brother-esque government. Yet the technology to embed radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips into animals and people has existed since the early nineties, and so far no one has attempted a forced implantation of the populace.

There are, of course, purely secular reasons against forced implantation of RFID chips and in favor of policies that particularly protect the truly vulnerable. But the true impetus behind these laws…….appears to lie squarely in Christian dispensationalism and speculation about “the mark of the beast” described in the Book of Revelation.”

What do you think? Paranoid dispensationalist clap-trap or reasonable protection of civil liberties?

This really made me laugh out loud, but believe it or not – this is for real!

“Never mind friends and family who’ll be left behind when you’re Raptured—what about those you really love? Eternal Earth-Bound Pets, “The next best thing to pet salvation in a Post Rapture World,” promises “to step in when you step up to Jesus.” Purchase a ten-year Rapture insurance plan for just $110, and rest easy, knowing that an atheist—not just any old non-believer like a Jew or Satanist but an honest-to-God, non-spiritual, non-religious atheist—will tenderly care for your pet in the event of your heavenly ascension.”

“Killing the Buddha is a religion magazine for people made anxious by churches, people embarrassed to be caught in the “spirituality” section of a bookstore, people both hostile and drawn to talk of God. It is for people who somehow want to be religious, who want to know what it means to know the divine, but for good reasons are not and do not. If the religious have come to own religious discourse it is because they alone have had places where religious language could be spoken and understood. Now there is a forum for the supposedly non-religious to think and talk about what religion is, is not and might be. Killing the Buddha is it.”