Stained glass portrait supposedly of St Patrick Someone recently sent me a document after I posted “Should Christians Celebrate St Patrick’s Day?”, but they could not remember where they got it from. I believe I found it at “The ‘Real’ St. Patrick’s Day“. An interesting read, to say the least,…
Image courtesy of artur84 / FreeDigitalPhotos.net St Patrick’s Day is celebrated on 17 March every year. It supposedly started as a religious holiday in Ireland to commemorate the anniversary of his death in the 5th century. It falls during the Catholic observance of Lent, so special rules have been applied…
John Lithgow plays Dr Emilio Lizardo in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Dr Lizardo is a human scientist possessed by an alien exiled from the 8th dimension The ignorance often displayed by people claiming to be educated, logical and reasonable is often astounding. Even more astounding is claiming to be…
I’ve started a new poll asking opinions about who people think will become more or less the leader in the circle that the Book of Revelation calls the “kings of the east”. This is pretty much just a poll out of curiosity, and there are no extra merit points for…
Cathedral of the Archangel, Moscow I’ll keep this somewhat short, as I had to spend part of last night working on a customer’s machine trying to get it ready before the weekend, and I’m pretty much beat. I am out of energy, but when I look at the current…
Politicians’ creed: When in doubt, make race the issue photo credit: Sky Noir via photopin cc Facts are the enemy of truth. ~ Don Quixote We live in a strange world where many people seem to believe that we all create our own reality. Politicians speak from ideologies and biases intended…
Photo credit: deeplifequotes via photopin cc 31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took…
7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. 8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day. ~ Mt 12:7-8 I have now published the introduction to this series as a…
Sometimes a little clarity is needed Image courtesy of Jeroen van Oostrom / FreeDigitalPhotos.net The doctrine of the clarity of Scripture (often called the “perspicuity of Scripture”) teaches that “the meanings of the text can be clear to the ordinary reader, that God uses the text of the Bible to…
Image courtesy of Stuart Miles / FreeDigitalPhotos.net This is basically a repeat of what I posted on the tech blog, but there are some changes being made to the poll plugin on this site as well. Well WP-Poll served well for quite some time, although it occasionally had some quirks. It never…