Via Episcopal Church Memes. What so you think? Was it Comic Sans? Or maybe Papyrus?
Use the Force, Isaiah!
May 2, 2013 By 1 Comment
I liked this Biblical parody of the well known meme-image that aims to infuriate nerds. It works just as well. If you are a Biblical scholar, or just someone who knows the Bible well, did it make your head explode? From Cake or Death
Ken Ham, Moses, and Jesus
April 27, 2013 By 58 Comments
Ken Ham has posted a reaction on Facebook to an image I shared on my blog yesterday (you can read the comments from his cronies there). I’ll share the text of his Facebook post here and then discuss it: Come on James McGrath, do you really think stooping to such lows befits a professor at [...]
Promised Land Expressway
April 17, 2013 By 3 Comments
Today's Non Sequitur is on a Biblical theme once again. It is rather silly, but then so too are those who make assumptions about the historicity of the Exodus story without knowing where the ancient Egyptian toll roads in the region were.
Young-Earth Creationism vs. the Plain Meaning of the Creation Stories
March 20, 2013 By 33 Comments
Having recently addressed a number of points of incompatibility between young-earth creationism and Christianity as most Christians understand it and have understood it down the ages, I was asked if I could address the common young-earth creationist objection that ”No one simply reading what the words clearly say would EVER suppose God/Moses were describing a development [...]
Ten Commandments – Complete With Carry Case
March 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
One could suggest that refusing the satchel is the reason why the commandments so often get broken…
The Ten Recommendations
March 5, 2013 By 2 Comments
When I saw yesterday’s Non Sequitur cartoon, it reminded me of something that I run up against regularly in class: For today’s students, the Ten Commandments have always been ten “recommendations” or “suggestions.” No matter how strongly they were ingrained in them from an early age, they have not had the status of law – apart from [...]
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