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Christianity and Homosexuality: Sodom

This article debunks the idea that the story of Sodom is a story about sexual ethics.

Jesus: Half-Dolphin, Half-Man

Apparently, AKMA can't prove that Jesus wasn't part dolphin:

I’ll admit to having a defective faculty for speculation. It’s not in my temperament. But I completely fail to grasp the urgency with which people last night clung to the notion that Jesus was married. I laid out the reasons for thinking he wasn’t; I put the best face on the reasons for thinking he was (which amounts to almost nothing, but it’s important to acknowledge the almost part of that nothingness); and still people wanted to know, “But what if he had been married?” and (this one really gets my goat) “Can you prove that he wasn’t married?”

Well, of course I can’t prove he wasn’t married. I can’t prove he wasn’t half-man, half dolphin either. None of the sources we have mention such an oddity, but that silence can best be explained as the embarrassment that someone The Church wanted to proclaim as divine had a dorsal fin and a blowhole in the back of his head. “You don’t think they’d boast about that, do you? They suppressed all references to his dolphin characteristics. But notice — he associated with fishermen, and he had an inexplicable knowledge of where to catch the most fish even though he wasn’t a fisherman himself!”

Good points - it makes you wonder.

Creationist Revisionism Creeps into Classrooms

Decisions in Texas next week over school textbooks could change the way that science is taught in many US states.

"Holt, Rinehart & Winston has submitted a change that directs students to "study hypotheses for the origin of life that are alternatives" to the others in the book. Students also are encouraged to research alternative theories on the Internet."

Church Signs

This site has a bunch of hilarious church signs that people have seen and photographed. And, if you're so inclined, you can create your own church signs here.