Culture Buzz Stay cool, have a good summer, see you next year. If only Jesus could have signed your yearbook.
Politics Buzz At National Prayer Breakfast, Obama grounds his controversial policies in the Bible. Tax hikes for rich “[coincide] with Jesus's teaching.”
Unless there are some lesser known chapters of that book that I'm not entirely familiar with.
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What happens when a Bible tutor leaves no story untold.
Celebrity Buzz Lil Wayne had some time to do a bit of light Bible-reading in prison. He was good enough to share his reactions with the world. (Via.)
This reminds me of that time a music downloading website changed the terms of agreement so that anyone who clicked 'agree' signed their soul over to the company. It's actually very much like that.
Politics Buzz This is America dammit. And in America when someone come for your neighbor, for his Bible, or his Torah or his Atheist Manifesto, or his Quran you and I do what our fathers did and what our grandmothers did and what our founders did. You and I speak up.
I don’t know what’s better, these reviews, or the fact that someone was able to create a top ten!
Get your facts straight, Patti. The bible was not written in black and white. It was written in dark colored inks on tanned animal skins.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100604/ap_on_en_ot/us_armeni...
The Armenian church has sued the J. Paul Getty Museum to demand the return of seven pages ripped from a sacred Armenian Bible dating back to 1256. The lawsuit alleged the church had the Bible authenticated in 1947 or 1948 and it was returned with the pages missing.
I have to admit, I wasn't taking Sarah Palin's book very seriously. Then I read this review comparing it to The Bible.
GQ unearthed the cover art from Donald Rumsfeld's daily security briefing reports, which were apparently designed by an evangelical Matt Drudge. When you look at these, it is important to remember that you cannot change the past and that anger is futile. Just helping you live your best life here.
God will decide when the world will end. And other insights on climate change based on the infallible words of the Bible. Yay government! [Editor's Note: From the March 25, 2009 hearing of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.]
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/03/in-search...
There's a story in the Bible with very specific instructions for building an ark. Included in the instructions is a call for using tanned dolphin leather. Don't worry: it's a metaphor.