If the Book of Genesis Was a Facebook Page
College Humor presents the Book of Genesis, if it had originally been written as a Facebook page. The image above is the first page.
Link via Geekologie
Original post by John
Archive for Religion
Saint Death
Death is looked upon differently by many cultures. One of the stranger and more macabre (at least to look at) is the Mexican tradition of Santa Muerte - or Saint Death if you are an English speaker. She is also known as Dona Sebastiana and is a religious figure that is the result of a mish-mash of several cultures. Paganism and Catholicism come head on to produce a remarkable hybrid of contemporary religiosity and supernaturalism.
Take a look at several incarnations of Santa Muerte at socyberty. Link -Thanks, RJ Evans!
(image credit: volante)
Original post by Miss Cellania
The Bible, If It Were Written by Bloggers
What would the Bible look like if it had been written like a blog? Here’s an entry from Noah’s Blog, chronicling the Deluge:
Day 1Rain.
Day 2Rain.
Day 3Rain.
Day 4Rain.
Day 5Rain.
Day 6So I was loading up the last of the animals last week when I walk past my neighbor Roger, the Molech-worshipper. He looks up and says "Hey, looks like rain."
True story.
Link - via Locusts & Honey
Original post by Alex
Church Brawl in Jerusalem
“Church” and “brawl” are not words you’d normally think of in the same sentence. However, confrontations between Christian sects are fairly common at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre {wiki} in Jerusalem, where six different denominations claim rights. One confrontation turned to violence this weekend.
Shocked pilgrims looked on as decorations and tapestries were toppled during Sunday’s clash.
Dressed in the vestments of the Greek Orthodox and Armenian denominations, rival monks threw punches and anything they could lay their hands on.
The Greeks blamed the Armenians for not recognising their rights inside the holy site, while the Armenians said the Greeks had violated one of their traditional ceremonies.
Israeli policemen scuffle with an Armenian altar boy during a fight at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on 9 November2008
Clashes between Christian sects in the ancient church are not uncommon
An Armenian clergyman said the Greek clergy had tried to place one of their monks […]
Original post by Miss Cellania
Public Prayer Booth
Kansas City-based artist Dylan Mortimer combined a telephone booth and a prayer station into this art piece titled Public Prayer Booth. If you ever came across one, you can pull down the kneeler and pray on the spot. Link - via Locust & Honey
Original post by Alex
The Wall Street Trader Who Became a Monk
What should people who lost their cushy jobs on Wall Street do? According to this one guy who’s been through it before, the answer is pretty simple: become a monk!
Hristo Mishkov had a successful career as a broker on the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York until he decided to give it all up to return to his native Bulgaria. His radical change of circumstances may start to look appealing to the tens of thousands of finance sector employees who face the bleak prospect of losing their jobs.
Exchanging tailored suits and expensive shoes for a cassock and sandals, Brother Nikanor, as he is now known, believes Wall Street and the City deserve all they get as the credit crunch bites deeper and the global financial system goes into meltdown. […]
His colleagues were stunned when he decided to become a monk, but he had made up his mind to seek spiritual […]
Original post by Alex
Can Mercenaries Stop the War in Darfur?
The War in Darfur, Western Sudan, Africa, is now in its fifth year and its increasingly unlikely - despite their rhetorics - that major world powers will do anything to prevent the killings.
Some people are now calling for a free market/private sector solution to the conflict: if governments are unwilling to send soldiers to the area, how about the private sector hiring Blackwater mercenaries instead?
John of Locust & Honey wrote:
Several years into the Darfur genocide, it’s getting increasingly unlikely that any of the major powers will do anything to prevent the extermination of these people. This problem has led some people to propose a free market solution: mercenaries.
Let us say, hypothetically, that a group of churches or denominations came together and hired a mercenary army to protect the people of Darfur from their Sudanese oppressors. Would their actions be consistent with Christian principles?
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Photo caption: A Darfur survivor at the site […]
Original post by Alex
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