The Eternal Gaijin

This is apparently because of this . And that clarification takes 10 minutes off my community service.

I have mixed feelings about Bill Maher. I usually love his New Rules segments. I applaud his stance that religion is something you can ridicule. However, I deplore his nonsense about vaccinations and medical care. He's quick witted, but not an intellect on the order of Jon Stewart, the best comparison of someone with TV show that's outspoken on the issues and has a sense of humour. Sometimes his outrage is misplaced. Sometimes it's bang-bloody-on. So, making the rounds is his trailer for Religulous, his new movie where he tackles religion. It looks funny and thought provoking. It looks highly slanted and I'm looking forward to it in the exact same way Mrs Gaijin isn't. I dunno. What do you think?

'Nuff said. JURIST - Paper Chase: UK House of Lords votes to abolish criminal blasphemy BBC NEWS Programmes BBC Parliament Peers vote to scrap blasphemy

Last week I was walking along somewhere in town when I saw an interesting headline on The Times front page. Churches back plan to unite under Pope Which got me to thinking about Carol Pope. But I thought that High School Confidential wasn't a big enough hit in Canterbury to really warrant this kind of sea change. And of course it couldn't really mean uniting the Catholic Churches under the Pope because, well, I'll just say 'Duh..' So I bought the paper. (a radical step in a city where approaching the station means getting a small Malaysian rain forest's worth of free newspapers. Most of the main papers have a 'Lite' version they chuck at you on the way in and out of the Tube.) And it turns out that some guess I had about the headline was right. Anglican and Catholic bishops have agreed to a plan in 42 pages that would re-unite the Anglican Communion (which is the least 'reformed' of all the Protestant denominations coming out of the Reformation...

Behold the awsome power of God! He shall smite thee for thy ways. Make straight the way of the Lord! Also: New Orleans is sinking, man, and I don't want to swim. To hear some folk weighing in on the disaster in New Orleans, you'd think they brought it on themselves. With all the whoring and flashing and drinking and Godlessness. To wit: Now New Orleans is under water, bathing in sewage and devastation rather than providing downtown fountains for homosexual capers aplenty. All of this has prompted Repent America to conclude that the biblical God had a heavy hand in the Katrina swing along. It’s an "‘act of God,’" they claim to media. United States-based, Repent America goes to the streets to preach repentance of sin, conversion to Christ as personal Savior, and thereby living the holy lifestyle according to the biblical message. As far as Repent America is concerned, divine judgment has come upon a metropolis that was bent...