Popular Culture
Why "Jesus Gave Us the Name of the Antichrist" Video is Ridiculous
05/08/09 10:17
I didn't realize this until this morning, but I found
out that there is some buzz around a video on YouTube
proposing to explain from the Bible why Barack Obama
is the Antichrist. I normally don't give this kind of
stupidity a second thought, but then I saw that the
video had over 150,000 views. So, I thought I would
address it on my blog by pointing you to a post by Brooke Lester where he goes
into a great amount of detail to debunk the
video. Please, don't just watch the video.
Read Brooke's blog post (you will probably learn
a lot). There are such idiotic statements in the
video, like "Aramaic is the oldest form of
Hebrew." Please, don't fall for this kind of
nonsense.
Are We Missing Five Commandments? - Couldn't Resist
24/07/09 12:11
Since today's posts have all been about the Decalogue
I couldn't resist posting this Mel Brooks video that
shows why we have 10 rather than 15 Commandments:
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Deciphering the Decalogue in Text
24/07/09 09:19
I was pointed to this link a while back by Chris
Brady on his blog Targuman. It is a very different
(but fun) version of the 10 Commandments.
Timothy McSweeney has put together what the 10 Commandments would have
looked like had God texted them. Can you
decipher them? Read
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Knowing - Just Like Signs
22/07/09 06:22
Did anyone see that movie Signs with Mel
Gibson in it? If so, there is not much reason for
watching Knowing (unless you really, really
liked Signs). The whole time I was watching
it I kept thinking, "This is just like that movie
Signs." Read
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Popular Culture on the Relationship between the New and Old Testaments
07/06/09 09:30
I apologize for linking to the same blog two days in
a row, but Dr. Brady has noticed a Neo-Marcionite
trend among current comic strips. And, I find this
tendency very interesting. Marcionism was a movement
related to early Christianity that saw a dichotomy
between the Old Testament and New Testament, going so
far as to say the deities of the Old Testament and
New Testament were not the same. The God of the Old
Testament was vicious and terrible, whereas the God
of the New Testament was gracious and merciful. Dr.
Brady has posted a recent Doonesbury comic and a comic
called Watch Your Head that demonstrate
the tendency within modern culture to recognize
the same dichotomy that Marcion did. Read
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