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When God Falls On His Face
You know something is horribly wrong when your god falls on his face. This is what happened to the ancient Philistines when they captured the ark of God from the Israelites. They carried the ark into the temple of their god, Dagon, and left it for the night. When they woke the next day, Dagon …[ read more ]
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My Faith is Not in Obama (or why I won’t clap for Tinkerbell)
There is a scene in Peter Pan when Tinkerbell has drunk poison to save Peter. The audience is told that if they believe in fairies they should clap very hard and very loud because if they all believe in fairies they will save Tinkerbell. And everyone does clap! And they clap louder and louder until …[ read more ]