Friday, July 18, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Birth Control, Viagra Question Makes McCain Squirm (VIDEO)
About John McCain
It was definetly prudent for him...its always prudent to avoid answering a question when you don't know what your stance is, or what it should be given the latest polls and expectations from various voting blocks you are trying to court. Not exactly straight talking. When Americans are faced with a choice between someone who has clear beliefs and sticks to them and someone like McCain who is now willing to throw out even his most cherished issues (Vets) it would seems like an easy choice.
But given his recent track record of speaking off the cuff it was definetly prudent. I'm not sure it will convince voters though when they can't even figure out what he really believes.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Monday, July 7, 2008
Pre-christian stories of Christ
Very interesting story about a newly discovered stone tablet containing some stories that are very similar to events from the life of Jesus. The thing is, the tablet was written a few decades before the birth of Jesus. Ooops. Now, this could be described as a very accurate prophecy but they are actually subtly different stories. Its easier to imagine that the story of the real Jesus was elaborated along the lines of such contemporary literature than that its some huge coincidence.
This is not at all inconsistent with the writings of Tom Harpur who, in his later years, has discovered other similar evidence from Egyptian writings. His belief is that Jesus may not have historically existed in the way we think but that the stories we know were reworked versions of many ancient spiritual stories floating around at the time. If you are interested in that pick up Mr. Harpur's fantastic book "The Pagean Christ". I'll write a blog about that soon, its a great book, a challenging one, but great.
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