Free Yourself

When someone with more orthodox views about religion calls me a “Cafeteria Christian” I don’t take it as an insult.  It’s supposed to be a put-down to suggest that I pick and choose what I like about Christianity and accept that, and don’t buy other parts of it.

Carpe Deum

“The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between this profusion of matter and the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.”

— Andre Malraux, from Les Noyers de l’Altenburg

Huge Misunderstandings

IDIOCRACY on the MARCH

There once was a movie monster with a big, square head.  People called the monster Frankenstein.  However, Frankenstein was not the monster’s name.  Frankenstein was the name of the doctor who created the monster.