| #1154: I'm spending the day jumping around Wikipedia and I'm not sorry |
[26 Jun 2008|03:07pm] |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Christian_discrimination
In July 2006 the Madhya Pradesh government passed legislation requiring people who desire to convert to a different religion to provide the government with one-month's notice, or face fines and penalties.
Who intend to convert? Why intend to convert? If people are going to convert, what's stopping them from doing it immediately?
That is a straaaange law.
I feel like I was cheated with one of my participation marks.
Maybe it's because I was always eating almonds in class.
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| #1155 |
[26 Jun 2008|03:30pm] |
Historian Stephen Nissenbaum contends that the modern celebration in the United States was developed in New York State from defunct and imagined Dutch and English traditions in order to re-focus the holiday from one where groups of young men went from house to house demanding alcohol and food into one that was focused on the happiness of children. He notes that there was deliberate effort to prevent the children from becoming greedy in response.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_controversy
I like that end bit... the focus on preventing children from being greedy in response...
though surely he's still missing the point of Christmas.
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| #1156: What we have done to Christ... |
[26 Jun 2008|03:36pm] |
Sister Wendy Beckett, an art critic and Catholic nun, stated in a television interview with Bill Moyers that she regarded the work as not blasphemous but a statement on "what we have done to Christ" - that is, the way contemporary society has come to regard Christ and the values he represents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ
Maybe this is truer than any Christian would like to believe.
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