Pursuing Holiness

Oh noes! Christianity has been debunked! They have DNA!!1!eleventy!!! The bones of Jesus have been located, along with those of his wife and children. Guess we should have taken Dan Brown a bit more seriously, huh? Or not. Bryan at Hot Air points out that this doesn’t pass even the most rudimentary logic test. As The Anchoress points out, this is explained by the fact that it’s nearly Easter. The weeks just before Easter are, of course, the time of year when the ritual attack on Christianity is performed by unbelievers trying to justify themselves, or something like that. Boneheads… Hey, here’s a brilliant idea - let’s all take to the streets with placards about beheading those who insult Christianity and talk about how we suffer due to Christophobia. Yeah. That’s gonna happen.

Well, I didn’t watch , but I read that Gore won the Oscar for his global warming truther movie. It must have been his night - one of his few public appearances lately where the Gore Effect has not been noted. But lest anyone think that an Oscar lends any kind of credibility, I’d like to remind you of two things… one, the voters are actors. And two, this is just one more propaganda piece in a long line of scary global climate change propaganda pieces. It’s your typical two minute decade scare. (We’ve always been at war with Eastasia!) Global warming… previously known as global cooling… previously known as global warming… previously known as global cooling - just in the last 112 years. Pre-Google they could get away with it. Now there is no excuse for falling for this nonsense. However, the news is not all bad. Gore, or at least the Gore Effect, is evidently bringing people back to Christ. Just goes to show you God can use anything.

Powerline honors Sam Ryskind. Click through to see the cartoon.

Ryskind doesn’t just draw; he writes, too, and along with this cartoon, he speculates about what would happen if Congress decided to support al Qaeda:

One day the U.S. Congress may change allegiance and support al-Qaeda instead of the sons and daughters of their own constituents… . They will denounce the terrorist leadership as incompetent. Condemn the insurgency for atrocities befitting Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot. Seek ways of cutting off funds for the failed jihad and prevent terrorist networks from eavesdropping on suspected American agents. And mock the rank and file as dupes who wasted their lives for a Paradise that doesn’t exist. Not only would it undermine Islamic terrorists everywhere, it would free our troops from bearing the burden of such supporters.

Ouch! That’s gonna leave a mark.

Bookmark Ryskind’s Fresh Meat page to keep up with his latest, it’s wonderful. And he has a great global warming cartoon and post here. Remember the hole in the ozone layer? Ryskind does.

As much as I enjoy smacking Democrats upside the head, there are many, many occasions where a Republican earns the same treatment. Trent “damn tired of porkbusters” Lott has passed his Katrina angst onto State Farm, which had no legal obligation to pay up, and evidently only did so because he’s a Senator. What amounted to a bribe did them no good, because now he’s gone after the whole industry. If I were a stockholder in an insurance company, as millions of 401k holding Americans are, I’d be “damn tired” of his playing socialist politics with the free market. Take your high blood pressure medication before you read the whole story at Wizbang.

Some jokes are not safe for work, especially pipe bombs. h/t to Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog for this story:

Two workers at Tufts-New England Medical Center allegedly planted a fake pipe bomb in an office the same day that Boston was panicked by a Cartoon Network marketing ploy. The stunt sparked a 45-minute evacuation of the first floor of one building and other offices nearby, including an on-site day-care center but no patient-care areas, Brooke Tyson Hynes, vice president of public affairs and communications at Tufts-NEMC, said today.

Coming soon - another look at the Saddleback Body Count. Mark Kelly, the News and Editorial Director of Saddleback Church, emailed me. I rather suspect he emailed every blogger who posted on this issue, because the first email I received was generic. In the second email (after I replied) he claimed to subscribe to this lowly blog via Bloglines. Interesting… well, at least I know that’s one reader who didn’t get here surfing for porn. (And yet, in spite of the fact that Mark likes this blog enough to subscribe to it, I didn’t make the Christian blogger list. What’s up with that, Mark? ) Because of his response, I’m going to re-address the topic of whether Rick Warren was fairly accused of padding his enrollment numbers. I used to be on staff at a large church - obviously not as large as Saddleback, but the enrollment was in the thousands - and I’ve also worked at a company which grew very large, very fast (AOL, back in the early nineties). So I have a basic knowledge of the inner workings of organizations like Saddleback, and that certainly influences my opinions. I’m perfectly willing to admit that I might have been unfair or lacked skepticism where it might have been due - when it is appropriate to do so. Consequently I’m taking my time with the new post to make sure I express what I really mean, so don’t look for it before the end of the week.

written by Laura