{"id":19451,"date":"2013-12-04T10:39:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T15:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=19451"},"modified":"2013-12-04T04:43:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T09:43:19","slug":"the-informations-unavailable-to-the-mortal-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2013\/12\/04\/the-informations-unavailable-to-the-mortal-man\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The information’s unavailable to the mortal man …’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/iframe>\n<\/p>\u201cNothing changes for a long time \u2014 until suddenly it does. <a href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2013\/11\/were-going-to-win-by-davidoatkins.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">And then everything changes quickly<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cMaybe one of these days there will be a TV show about churches and ministers that will be worth watching, but it <a href=\"http:\/\/scottpaeth.typepad.com\/main\/2013\/11\/does-the-world-need-a-church-based-reality-show-answer-no.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">sure as heck will not be a reality show about \u2018church rescue consultants<\/a>.'\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cCochran, if we\u2019re gonna write a story about the burial of Lee Harvey Oswald,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/ex-ap-writer-recalls-serving-oswald-pallbearer-063009063.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">we\u2019re gonna have to bury the son of a bitch ourselves<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/11\/16\/21403989-funeral-director-caleb-wilde-is-an-undertaker-for-the-overshare-generation?lite\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Being around death all the time makes you different<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/52\/2013\/12\/57lv9.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19452\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/52\/2013\/12\/57lv9.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"146\"><\/a>\u201cAre humans, who show this kind of love to each other, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetmonk.com\/archive\/are-we-more-gracious-than-god\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more gracious and loving than God?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cBut ivory-towered elitists like me might protest that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2013\/11\/10\/run-with-the-devil-unlike-the-girl-in-kentucky.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this isn\u2019t actually what the Bible says<\/a>. The number<\/em> of the Beast and the mark<\/em> of the Beast are different.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cModern notions of human rights were not really developed from the Bible, but there really were different philosophical ideas [in the Bible] that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithandleadership.com\/qa\/marc-brettler-the-danger-saying-the-bible-says\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">helped to develop human rights<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThey are, after all, men.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/libertyforcaptives.com\/2013\/11\/19\/the-myth-of-biblical-manhood\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Biblical men<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201c\u2018Because\u2019 has become a preposition, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/english-has-a-new-preposition-thanks-to-internet-2013-11\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">because grammar<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThere are two theories with equal support among Obama and Romney supporters: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewire.com\/national\/2013\/04\/12-million-americans-believe-lizard-people-run-our-country\/63799\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">that aliens exist and the one about fluoridation<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cIf you can only do one, stand closer. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/41107-physics-of-peeing-and-splash-back.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">If standing closer isn\u2019t an option, reduce the impact angle<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cWhy, just a few years ago it seems, we were all at war with each other, and here we all are now, sitting in a dining room together, eating a bowl of \u2026\u0080\u0094 <a href=\"http:\/\/the-toast.net\/2013\/11\/20\/jimmy-stewart-reviews\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a bowl of I don\u2019t know what, only it\u2019s just delicious<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cI have always been thinking of the ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest \u2014 \u0080\u0094I mean\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thewildreed.blogspot.com\/2013\/11\/quote-of-day_22.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">that which takes in the most good of all kinds and brings in the most people as sharers in it<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/janariess.religionnews.com\/2013\/12\/02\/homeless-mormon-bishop\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sometimes I am a truly shitty Christian<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the Rhine and the Lone Bellow team up on a Paul Simon classic, plus some Wednesday morning links, including: A pep-talk from Digby, Oswald’s pallbearers, the claim that we out-love God, counting adherents of conspiracy theories, urinal physics, biblical manhood, George Bailey’s Yelp reviews, and the Mormon 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