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Breviarium Ecclesiae

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Curt Jester didn’t create this?!?
If those beads made you roll your eyes, these might make you scream.
Is there truly no sexual ethic in the Bible?
Onion Radio reports on a new Christian porn film.
Going to church may soon catch up to shopping as favorite passtime in Ireland.
Pontificator Al Kimel asks, "What is the dogmatic status of Ordinatio Sacerdotalis?"
Check out this interesting way of ministering to people in the sex industry.
What part of "when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage" isn’t clear?
Mark Shea presents a sampling from the Moloch’s scriptures.
Writer’s Blog has some interesting thoughts on gay adoptions.
Does the Catholic Church have a monopoly on the word "catholic" (which means "universal")?
Ex-Christians. Ex-ministers. Ex-apologists. Debunking Christianity. Interesting.
Why are Fundamentalists afraid of lectio divina?
I think the guy described here would be happier as a Unitarian Universalist.
"Christ yes, the Church no" is an unacceptable attitude, says Benedict XVI.
For the curious, here’s what coverts to the Catholics had to profess back before the introduction of the RCIA. I wish it was still in use.
Just how catholic is the Catholic Church?  Find that and other questions in this denomination-themed Carnival of Etymologies.
Anybody want to help Rob understand why gay adoptions are gravely immoral?
Why are Fundamentalists afraid of meditation and mysticism?
Joe Carter has a great post about gluttony at the Evangelical Outpost.
If you’re a married Christian, please consider taking this survey.
Rob and Nate throw their two cents each into the partial-birth abortion ban debate.
Does anybody know where I can find this movie on DVD?
Please pray for this sick little girl.
What do you folks think of Busted Halo?
Read a short history of St. Blog’s Parish.
A crucifix made from an integrated circuit?!?
If you loved me, you’d buy me one of these shirts. 😉
Dale Price talks about the problems with Republicans from an orthodox Catholic perspective.
Mark Shea points us to a new blog devoted to convincing Mormons of the truth of Catholicism.

Breviarium Seculorum

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Ever wonder about what makes a hit song?
Learn how to become an early riser.
If that doesn’t work, check out these ingenius alarm clocks.
What should we call a group of blogs?  How about a "bias"?
Who knew dying hard drives could be musical?
What is your true purpose in life?
It’s about bloody time the AI community realized that intelligence requires the ability to sense and respond to stimuli.
I find the study of dialects fascinating.
I never knew the "amen break" was such a phenomenon.
A David Bowie comic book?!? Eek!
If your teens use MySpace, beware.
Done With Mirrors gives us a brief etymology of profanity.
For a good laugh, check out House of Cosbys (NSFW).
This looks like more evidence for the usefulness of the Socratic method to me.
If you don’t read this proof of his exitence, Chuck Norris will kill you.
You need the Dennis the Peasant Blogging System™: The Foolproof System for Fools Who Want to Make Money by Blogging.
Pot makes you stupid.  Duh.
Garfield without Garfield’s thought bubbles? Surreal.
A double-helix galazy? How odd.
Did Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, Bill Cosby, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Robert L. Johnson conspire to take down Dave Chappelle?
If you have an iPod or similar MP3 player and a geeky streak, you should check out Rockbox, open source jukebox firmware.
Isaac Hayes and Tom Cruise can’t take a joke, but we can.  Check out "A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant" and laugh with me.

“Did you mean adoption?”

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This is fascinating. Apparently the search engine at Amazon.com was prompting users who searched for "abortion" whether they meant to type "adoption," purely for intersecting reasons of technical and typographical chance. They have changed it, but similar problems are bound to crop up more often as large amounts of information are increasingly subject to user searches by algorithmic sorting of relevance.

Still, it is an excellent example of processes not directly under the control of humans coming up with results that humans perceive as holding a human bias, despite the absence of one. Welcome to the age of miscommunication between people and software.

No, Peter, this isn’t about miscommunication.  It’s about a bunch of whining hypocrits who, despite all their posturing and pontificating about the importance of choice, got their panties all twisted when an algorithmic anomaly presented users with *gasp* a choice.  If they wish to protect the right to abortion, that’s their prerogative; we can argue about that later.  Just don’t sing the praises of choice and then freak out when someone, even accidentally, offers choices for pregnant women that don’t require blind and uncritical acceptance of the supposed necessity of killing their children. 

"I thought it was offensive," said the Rev. James Lewis, a retired Episcopalian minister in Charleston, W.Va. "It represented an editorial position on their part."

You’d think "adoption" was a dirty word or hate speech.  I guess it’s just not the politically correct choice.

Too Weird For Words

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From time to time I get bizarre email. Some of it is from Fundies giving me a “drive-by” Bible-thumping. Some is from Muslims trying to enlighten me. Most is spam. Occasionally, though, I get a message that I just can’t quite classify. It’s something so strange that it just has to be shared with the world. In that spirit, I give you the email “drinkme” by “super genius from outer space”.

“A conduct can be pathological or non pathological (phisiological), no
external or middle case is expected. 90% of the people who killed a parent
is declared mentally healthful, this means: non pathological conduct,
phisiological conduct (genetic or non genetic), good doctor, not ‘infected
cattle’.”

“Medicine is an exact science, jurisprudence is an exact science. Enemies and
friends, of the mental hygiene only : war between doctors isn’t expected
value; Fighting with islam against the devil : announcing this obvious
information could save some health.
Siegmund Freud lies not knowing to be lying: he is a conceptual pedophile
who says children has sexual attraction for parent (edipus) and that mind is
partitioned in 3 parts (ego superego es). False premiss brings wrong result:
like Freud says, cognitive error is associated with pathological conduct,
biological group self-destructive activity.
‘Your parent acts with you like with friends’: the medical doctor must
suggest this or enhanced reflection to the habitants, for excluding
non-genetic behavioral epidemics. Slapping child is a crime and a mania,
like by the general rule, ‘if child doesn’t born genetically stupid,
handicapped, diseased, socially dangerous’. Habitants of the planet kill
gays but children don’t born gays, habitants corrupt and kill children doing
a ‘sacrifice to the devil’: this non genetic epidemic is familiarly but not
geneticaly transmitted.”

“With baptism christians forgive themselfs from god’s sentence.
If vegetarian diet gives longer and better life than non-vegetarian diet,
non-vegetarian diet is alimentary behavior pathology. Eating another
human is a behavioral disturb; a cow has 96,5% dna perfectly matching
with human dna. I am racist: i think animals is inferior race, so i don’t
have to eat cadavers, thing that induce a phisiological genetic reflex :
vomiting.”

“You are authorized by the author to the use u think is necessary, pls
forward. This is a final version or close, you will be excluded from future
mailing.”

The last bit really caught my attention. This bad acid trip is somebody’s idea of a final version. What of, I do not know.