The Eye of the Sky God

While driving to work yesterday in the midst of thunderstorms and tornado warnings, I looked up to the dark blue-grey wall of storm clouds and saw an eye-shaped fissure in the cloud cover. Moreover, the sun was perfectly situated as the iris and pupil of this eye-shaped hole in the clouds. Thus, my first thought is, oh my, the giant glowing eye of God is in the sky! Just then, a massive bolt of lightning arced horizontally from the Eye across the sky. For that moment, it was like Yahweh, Thor, Zeus or any other all-powerful storm deity had come down from their heavenly heights. At the other end of that lightning bolt, was there some poor shlub who just said, "If I'm lying, may God strike me down where I stand!"?

Crucifiction's not just for torture anymore!

Filipinos mark Good Friday with Nails & Blood
Penitents retrace Jesus' last steps, relive his crucifixion

On a dusty hill, with the crowd pressing round, 11 men had themselves nailed to crosses in imitation of Christ’s suffering. The nails hammered into their hands and feet were as thick as pencils.

“I feel lighter after I have been nailed to the cross. But my cross was really heavy,” said Ruben Enage, who started 19 years ago after his mother was cured of tuberculosis.

“It takes a lot of courage to get up there,” said Matthew James, an American in the Philippines on business. “A lot of faith there.”

(REPOSTED FROM JRFRENCH)

Yankee or Dixie

A Linguistic Geography Test

I got 38% Yankee.

Idiot Child Emperor

BUSH on OBGYN

Even the newscaster doesn't know what to say to this.