Monday

a la Joel:

#1)
People have a funny problem with religion. It seems to bring on amnesia.
One particular incident that seems to have been forgotten/fudged is the munster rebellion.
I learned about it in high school. It was presented as an example of why it was people didn't like the anabaptists.
To get a good look at today's modern theological descendants of the anabaptists feel free to turn on religious programming like you find on TBN.

an article detailing the incident

the cathedral where John's body was left suspended in a cage to remind people how the Church feels about that kind of thing:

the cages are still there

#2)
This is a thing I heard. You might not like it, but I found it really
captivating.

realplayer file

It is a man detailing the origins of suffering. It starts like this:
"We live in an unstable world. By the time I reach the end of this sentence, the Milky Way will have travelled one hundred and twenty miles closer to the centre of its galaxy cluster, the Earth twenty miles in its orbit around the sun, while your brain will have generated millions of firing patterns..."

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