Heartbreaking photo of the demolition of the Sanjiang church in Wenzhou.
From an excellent Financial Times article
about China’s campaign to rein in the rise of Christianity
“Despite being overcome by a profound realization just minutes earlier that challenged his long-held beliefs and promised to forever alter his daily existence, sources confirmed that 42-year-old Thomas Wilson’s epiphany had fully worn off during his drive home Wednesday.” (Sometimes The Onion gets it so right.)
“A June 2012 survey of about 1,000 British secondary school students aged 11 to 18 showed that while 92% of them could identify a picture of a dog named Churchill from a popular British insurance advertisement, ‘only 62% correctly identified a photo of Sir Winston Churchill’…A hundred books a year are published on him—and yet we cannot take his reputation for granted” (In a WSJ essay by Boris Johnson)
I Will Not Trust the Sweetest Frame. “Sweet little old ladies have a lot of clout in society in getting social practices to pass from fringy to normal. It is one thing if a bunch of pink-haired, tongue-pierced, sleeved up Gen-Y types say they support same-sex marriage, but if Andy Taylor’s Aunt Bee supports it, you have much bigger trouble on your hands….It is a far greater challenge for me to put the Word of God above the word of a sweet little old lady than to put the Word of God above the word of a Unitarian pastor.”
Why idolatry is just another valid way of being Christian. Love the parody here, exposing the screwy exposition of those who have abandoned the biblical view of sexuality.
Interstellar Isn't About Religion (and Also It Is Totally About Religion)
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