Photo of the kidnap victim released by the hostage taker
I admit to being just a little clueless about Roman Catholic dogma. I don’t grok the doctrine of the Trinity, and I don’t understand why the Pope dresses like that deliberately. It’s all a foreign mindset to me, but most of the time – unless I am being analytical or critical – I trust that it makes sense to them on some level. Still, sometimes the stuff they say just makes me scratch my head in confusion. Take the latest case, for example, where a University of Central Florida student named Webster Cook stole the Eucharist out of a church ceremony. Continue reading
Archaeology is the devil’s work
While I was Googling around to find links for my last post on the motivation behind my blog’s subtitle, “Just another dark star in the luminiferous æther”, I stumbled across a couple of interesting links that I thought I’d share with you. In fact, the experience was so delightful that I may even make this something I do regularly in the future. I shall pick a strange and rarely used phrase – preferably something amusingly quaint – Google it, and see what pops up. If anyone has any suggestions for phrases I might try, I would welcome them enthusiastically (just post a comment!). For now, let’s see what “dark star” and “luminiferous æther” turned up. Continue reading
