December 22, 2009 at 8:53pm
The original version of the previous image.
Found here.
8:49pm
This picture of the nativity is much more ‘green’ than the one I am used to. I like it.
November 28, 2009 at 1:43pm
This is the point in the semester when I figure I have failed the Christians—but not all by myself. Their churches have failed them too, by supporting them to believe things they do not know much about. College students in all other regards, they remain fifth graders in religion.
10:24am
Report Says Police and Catholic Church Hid Abuse in Dublin →
LONDON — The Roman Catholic Church and the police in Ireland systematically colluded in covering up decades of child sex abuse by priests in Dublin, according to a scathing report released Thursday.
The cover-ups spanned the tenures of four Dublin archbishops and continued through to the mid-1990s and beyond, even after the church was beginning to admit to its failings and had professed that it was confronting abuse by its priests.
But rather than helping the victims, the church was concerned only with “the maintenance of secrecy, the avoidance of scandal, the protection of the reputation of the church, and the preservation of its assets,” said the 700-page report, prepared by a group appointed by the Irish government and called the Commission of Investigation Into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin.
Despite its good, the Roman lens of Christianity (which informs both Catholicism and Protestantism) seems to have retained its root motive of retaining control and power at any costs.
.jpg "A plate from The Song of Los by William Blake.")
9:37am
“Auguries of Innocence”
Happy William Blake day (28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827). Video originally pilfered from Monkey Mind.
