(a) become an orthodox Jew

It is certainly more comforting, and safe, for the materialist to try and believe that Jesus the Nazarene never lived, and is just a mythical character.But the best evidence points to his existence, and the fact that something very strange happened surrounding his life.

A nicely-written article here by a journalist who converted to the New Atheism, and back again.

" In so far as we can discern anything about Jesus from the existing documents, he believed that the world was about to end, as did all the first Christians. So, how could he possibly have intended to start a new religion for Gentiles, let alone established a Church or instituted the Sacraments? It was a nonsense, together with the idea of a personal God, or a loving God in a suffering universe. Nonsense, nonsense, nonsense. ..."

"Now He Has Experience"

"Hey, Rocky! Watch Me Pull a Rabbit Out of My Hat!"

" OBAMA FOR PRESENT "

http://www.horrorlair.com/scripts/criswell.txt

Possibly one of the finest scripts ever written. So what if it is unintentionally humorous? This doesn't seem to be an actual script, but is a fair transcription of the final (broadcast) screenplay.

Happy 2012.

"Not *THAT* Much Hope!"

The I AM in the center of it all

Given the tendency of the current crop of GOP candidates to fail to qualify for bring listed on various state primary ballots, one wonders whether or not we are inevitably headed for yet another four years of accidental presidency.

SIGHhh...

"NO CHANGE IS O.K."

Blogging by phone is convenient and quick, but (as with most things these days) misspellings are more common. I notice this also in e-books: they have many more misprints and typographical errors.

... not that such origin * couldn't * happen via chance interactions in a cosmos predisposed to generate the right combinations.

But even that hypothesis tends to undermine the materialist assertion.The next thing in line, then, is either origin of the self-conscious entity within such a setting.

The origin of living organisms, sometime and somewhere in the inorganic cosmos

Those damned Jews. Civilizations come and go by the hundreds; they take a licking and keep on ticking.