Slactivist

If y'all aren't reading Slacktivist, you should be. (It's an independent blog, but has an LJ feed at slacktivist. I started reading because I found out that every week (more or less) he took a few pages of Left Behind and discussed them from a theological standpoint.

A few weeks ago, that prompted me to quote massive chunks of a linked blog, "Real Live Preacher." This week it would prompt me to pull out his Left Behind vs Huck Finn "what is salvation" discussion except 1) it's difficult to do that on my Mother's laptop and 2) I'd end up quoting the whole thing anyway.

Basically, he has hit the chunk of Left Behind where it tells you in excruciating steps how to Get Saved (tm)... and compares it not just to Jesus' own words on the subject in the New Testament, but also the deeper (and to Slacktivist and myself, more meaningful) theological wrestling Huck went through as he decides if he will turn in Jim the runaway... or go to hell.

Great, great stuff.

Dreaming of a white Christmas...

This piece of silliness came to my parents via my aunt, and after I picked myself off the floor, I thought in the spirit of the season, I should share it with y'all.

http://www.reuters.hu/card_dom/index_content.html

Turn up the speakers.