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Monday, February 23, 2009

Irrational Rationality

"You can't be a rational person six days of the week and put on a suit and make rational decisions and go to work and, on one day of the week, go to a building and think you're drinking the blood of a 2,000-year-old space god..." — Bill Maher, on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.  

“It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense, and can’t see things as they are.“G. K. Chesterton

Thursday, February 05, 2009

A Jesus I can't beat up

"There is a strong drift toward the hard theological left. Some emergent types [want] to recast Jesus as a limp-wrist hippie in a dress with a lot of product in His hair, who drank decaf and made pithy Zen statements about life while shopping for the perfect pair of shoes. In Revelation, Jesus is a prize fighter with a tattoo down His leg, a sword in His hand and the commitment to make someone bleed. That is a guy I can worship. I cannot worship the hippie, diaper, halo Christ because I cannot worship a guy I can beat up. I fear some are becoming more cultural than Christian, and without a big Jesus who has authority and hates sin as revealed in the Bible, we will have less and less Christians, and more and more confused, spiritually self-righteous blogger critics of Christianity." -Mark Driscoll, Relevant Magazine

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

On what we think we hear

If a person plays dissonance long enough it will sound like consonance. --Keith Jarrett