Biblical Events According to Google Earth
God’s (i.e. Google’s) view of Biblical events (including the Crucifixion, the crossing of the Red Sea, and Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden) as imagined by the Glue Society. Via Creative Review.
2007
Most Badass Bible Verses
I’d like to see a similar compilation of the Koran, but in the meantime, I shall leave you with this thought: instead of prayers in schools, we should have bears in schools. And let you find out for yourselves exactly which verse that describes.
2007
Using the New Testament Against Evangelical Politicians
I’m not a huge fan of Hillary Clinton, but this made some sense to me:
Clinton later said Democrats should speak about religion more openly to frame policy debates.
“The Bible should be used to win debates over poverty the way Republicans tried to use it on gay marriage,” she said. “No one can read the New Testament of our Bible without recognizing that Jesus had a lot more to say about how we treat the poor than most of the issues that were talked about in this election.”
I see it as turning the New Testament back on conservative Evangelicals–Jesus certainly had a lot more to say about serving the poor, healing the sick, welcoming the outcast, and forgiving the sinner than he did about homosexuality, abortion, immigration restrictions and supporting the troops.
Gd, yt? Awsum! nm, kthxbai.
Jana just sent me this link (it’s from 2002, but it’s new to me, and hopefully to you) to a 160 character, text-messagized version of the Lord’ Prayer. This was the winning submission of a contest sponsored by Ship of Fools Magazine:
dad@hvn,ur spshl.we want wot u want&urth2b like hvn.giv us food&4giv r sins lyk we 4giv uvaz.don't test us!save us!bcos we kno ur boss,ur tuf&ur cool 4 eva!ok?
If you find that you need to text more than just the Lord’s Prayer, Simon Jenkins (Ship of Fools editor) has condensed much of the Bible for you. Instead of getting thumb cramps and callouses typing (Exodus 20:8-11, KJV):
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
You can use Jenkins’ up2 d8 version:
Day7holy.
This isn’t as short, but the lolCat translation has inspired more Remy Bible immersion than anything else in the past month or two (thanks to the several of you who let me know about the lolCat Bible):
Remembur caturday An keep holy. U werk 6 dais An finish werk, K? Caturday, u no werk. U An all ur peepz go wrship me. I maded heavenz An erth An see An the stuff that does teh funney hoppey stuffz in An on it – so I make it holy cuz I no werk.
Can u B leev, er, can you believe that the whole Bible is being translated into lolCatese (aka kitty pidgin)? Ah, the miracle of community-sourcing!
Teh blessigs of teh Ceiling Cat b pwn u, lol!