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A Fear of Whales

It’s clear to me where Christ stands on the scale of Alignment he is obviously Neutral Good, The same alignment as Dirty Harry, the same as Spiderman, Luke Skywalker, The Boondock Saints, and The Doctor. Jesus cares about others more than himself, he is not self seeking, he is not attracted to violence or detriment,…

Christians don’t like Dungeons & Dragons as a rule. We generally suspect that it just may possibly be a little bit The Devil. But since when have I ever payed attention to christian social conventions? I think D&D provides some great fodder for analogies. Since when you boil it down it’s a rulebook for a…

"They called me Mr. Fun" said Mick, as he sat there on stage. We all understood what he meant, periodically the community would need something to break the tension or the monotony, a game, or a joke, maybe a song. Mick was the person who the community would turn to, the person they expected that…

In the last article I introduced the new problem of defending the historicity of Jesus the man. And spent time “setting the goalposts” in such a way that there will be no room for wiggling away from what the evidence shows. When last we left out heroes I suggested that the case should be so…

The answer is “Of course he did, don’t be silly” Nonetheless it’s become popular for semi-learned skeptics to deny even the historical existence of Jesus, just for fun. I say “just for fun” because it’s not important in their mind that Jesus didn’t exist. They don’t care, what’s important to them is that you can’t…

I wrote previously about my thoughts as I moved my few worldly possessions into a storage unit. I want to take a post and talk about the conclusion to those thoughts At the time I questioned the impulse to keep things and wondered if I might be being materialistic. On the other hand I thought…

Note: This is Part 4 is a series on Santa Clause. If you are reading through the archives you will want to Start with Part 1, and then read 2, and 3 before this one. In the last three posts I have demonstrated that If Santa ever existed, he’s dead now, And then I demonstrated…

Those articles are both cute, but I also think they do a better job than I could of articulating an important point about Santa Clause. They say exactly opposite things, but yet each, in it's own way, very meaningfully demonstrate that their point is correct. The first article proves belief in Santa is irrational, utterly,…

This one is something of a rebuttal to the last. Even though it was written about 100 years earlier. It's a response of a Newspaper editor to a little girl on Santa Clause. You may have already seen it, but it's worth another read. Note how artfully he forms the argument so that he never…

Today I want to share with you one of my all time favorite Christmas writings. It's posted elsewhere on the net, but I think it deserves another post. If you can. Try to read it out loud. It's even funnier that way. There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However,…
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