Justin Griffith Interviews Pastor Sean Harris

By now, I expect you’ve heard a little about Pastor Sean Harris of Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, NC. He’s the pastor who sermonized that parents should enforce gender roles on their children, and suggested that boys should get “a good punch” if they were being to effeminate.

Dads, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. Man up. Give him a good punch. Ok?

Parts of this sermon went viral, making Harris one of the most disliked people on the net in short order.

This Sunday, our friend Justin Griffith, who is located at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, attended a protest held by the Military Atheists & Secular Humanists at Fort Bragg and other groups outside Berean. Griffith actually got a little closer, getting inside for a brief interview with the pastor. Snippets of the interview were used by news sources, but here’s the whole thing:

Griffith picked up on part of Harris’s response:

Justin Griffith: “But you wouldn’t literally use a rod would you?”

Sean Harris: “No, of course not. We may use some instrument of discipline in a careful and appropriate way. Depending on the age of the child, depending on the weight of the child.”

Maybe Harris will soon publish a book including his conversion charts of force-per-pound punishments.

Harmless?

Here’s a trailer for an indy Christian horror film about the dangers of pornography: Harmless.

It appears to be a cross between “found footage” horror films like Paranormal Activity and a Chick tract.

The kickstarter page has been sitting at $225 of a $12,500 goal for a while now. I might kick some money over there. Atlas Shrugged II is supposed to be out this year, and there should be some competition for the title of “Decade’s Worst Movie.”

Another Day, Another Apocalypse

The latest person crazy enough to set a solid date for the end of the world is a man by the name of Ronald Weinland. He’s setting the date as May 27, 2012, and he’s not shy about it:

As readers of this site know, May 27, 2012, is the time that I have stated as being the date Jesus Christ will return as King of kings over all government on this earth. For such an event to come to pass, the Trumpets of Revelation must all sound, the United States and dollar collapse, the ten nations of Europe arise to fulfill the final revival of the Holy Roman Empire, and Russia with China must unite against Europe in WWIII.

Weinland is a member of the Worldwide Church of God, a strange sect founded by Herbert W. Armstrong. You might be familiar with it if you read Otagosh, one of the few blogs in our circle that deals with it directly.

Weinland also has some words for those of us who would dare to mock him:

Weinlan is famous enough to have an attack blog dedicated to him: False Prophet Ronald Weinland

The God Particle

According to legend, Leon Lederman wanted to nickname the Higgs Boson “the goddamned particle,” but his editor wouldn’t allow the profanity, so we’re stuck with the God Particle. At least we have Daniel Whiteson, a physics professor and particle physicist, and Jorge Cham, cartoonist behind the web-strip Piled Higher & Deeper, using their knowledge and animation skills to explain just what the particle is:

Go to Vimeo for a larger version, or PhD for still images. H/t Open Culture.

Natural Wonders

Two videos that deserve viewing at full screen in high definition:

A video of the aurora taken in norther Finland, Norway and Sweden during 2011

This video was created using images of Saturn and its rings from NASA’s Cassini probe and Voyager mission: