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Five Steps Back of the Day: A church in Pike County, Kentucky, voted this week to ban interracial couples from becoming members of the congregation, as well as from participating in worship services.
Melvin Thompson, a former pastor at the ironically named Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church, asked that a proposal stating uneqivocally that “the church did not condone interracial marriage” be brought to a vote.
It passed 9 to 6, with several members abstaining.
Thompson was apparently incesed that the daughter of church secretary Dean Harville brought her Zimbabwean fiancé to church. Harville said the decision was clearly motivated by racism. “It sure ain’t Christian. It ain’t nothing but the old devil working,” he told the Lexington Herald-Leader.
“Most of us thought that we’d moved well beyond that,” said Pike County Ministerial Association president Randy Johnson. “The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance,” responded 18th century Irish orator John Philpot Curran.
(Source: thedailywhat)
Apple’s secret: they’re going for your soul?
BBC on the ‘evangelical frenzy’ over Apple products
Why have companies like Apple and Google grown so explosively in the past few years and why do the brands garner such loyalty from their customers?
The Bishop of Buckingham - who reads his Bible on an ipad - explained to me the similarities between Apple and a religion.
And when a team of neuroscientists with an MRI scanner took a look inside the brain of an Apple fanatic it seemed the bishop was on to something. The results suggested that Apple was actually stimulating the same parts of the brain as religious imagery does in people of faith.
“I can honestly say, I have never seen anything like this at PC World,” says reporter Alex Riley.
Image via The Economist.
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A mass ordination of 34,000 monks at Wat Phra Dhammakaya, Thailand by Luke Duggleby, honored as Travel Photographer of the Year
(The Guardian, via kateoplis)
Close Encounters of the Buddhist Kind - An FP Photo Essay | Foreign Policy
Picture this: millions of followers gathering around a central shrine that looks like a giant UFO in elaborately choreographed Nuremberg-style rallies; missionary outposts in 31 countries from Germany to the Democratic Republic of the Congo; an evangelist vision that seeks to promote a “world morality restoration project”; and a V-Star program that encourages hundreds of thousands of children to improve “positive moral behavior.” Although the Bangkok-based Dhammakaya movement dons saffron robes, not brown shirts, its flamboyant ceremonies have become increasingly bold displays of power for this cult-like Buddhist group that was founded in the 1970s, ironically, as a reform movement opposed to the excesses of organized religion in Thailand.
An interesting piece, and some very striking photos.
![It’s Important To Have A Hobby of the Day: Not sure if you have too much time on your hands? Find out with this simple home test: 1. Make a 14ft-long replica of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” out of lint from your dryer. 2. You have too much time on your hands (via thedailywhat).
From Newslite:
Michigan-based artist Laura Bell says she had to do almost 800 hours of laundry to create enough lint for the reproduction of the masterpiece, and spent another 200 hours putting it together.
She began the seven-month project to compete in ‘ArtPrize 2010’ and says she was inspired to produce the 14-foot-long, 4-foot tall work after seeing other lint-based art-works.
To get the right colours, Bell bought towels in the colours that she wanted to use and then washed and dried them separately because laundromat lint isn’t a suitable art medium. We’re sorry if you think this it too much of a fluff piece.
Har har.
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It’s Important To Have A Hobby of the Day: Not sure if you have too much time on your hands? Find out with this simple home test: 1. Make a 14ft-long replica of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” out of lint from your dryer. 2. You have too much time on your hands (via thedailywhat).
From Newslite:
Michigan-based artist Laura Bell says she had to do almost 800 hours of laundry to create enough lint for the reproduction of the masterpiece, and spent another 200 hours putting it together.
She began the seven-month project to compete in ‘ArtPrize 2010’ and says she was inspired to produce the 14-foot-long, 4-foot tall work after seeing other lint-based art-works.
To get the right colours, Bell bought towels in the colours that she wanted to use and then washed and dried them separately because laundromat lint isn’t a suitable art medium. We’re sorry if you think this it too much of a fluff piece.
Har har.
[newslite.]
(Source: thedailywhat)
Offering made to the Reclining Buddha (this was one of the ways that people made donations at the Reclining Buddha, in Wat Pho, Bangkok)
(Scenes from Jacques and Liz’s Southeast Asian Adventure)
Hanuman, watching over Wat Arun, Bangkok
(Scenes from Jacques and Liz’s Southeast Asian Adventure)
As God created the world, he decided to spice it up (thanks to Gary Larson)
(Source: brooklynmutt)
I’m all for free and open inquiry, but “proving” that geocentrism is correct, Galileo was wrong, and the universe revolves around us?
I’m not gonna pay $50 to have you try to convince me, even if your degrees in philosophy and theology recommend your serious scientific backgroun. (Yes, one of the speakers is a retired astronomer, but he appears to be the only hard scientist in the bunch).
(Click the photo to view the details).
(via mohandasgandhi:oldbooks)
"On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, ‘What God do you pray to?’ (Bloomberg’s voice cracks here a little as he gets choked up.) ‘What beliefs do you hold?’
“The attack was an act of war, and our first responders defended not only our city, but our country and our constitution. We do not honor their lives by denying the very constitutional rights they died protecting. We honor their lives by defending those rights and the freedoms that the terrorists attacked."
“The attack was an act of war, and our first responders defended not only our city, but our country and our constitution. We do not honor their lives by denying the very constitutional rights they died protecting. We honor their lives by defending those rights and the freedoms that the terrorists attacked."
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Michael Bloomberg’s passionate defense of the First Amendment, today.
Read the entire address at the link above.
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