Tag Archives: Religion

What a Weird World

Deep in space, a fire burns. It is not an ordinary fire. It is the heat of uncountable gazillions of tiny pairs of protons and electrons being squished together at incredible temperatures, releasing scads of energy. The energy is transmitted outward, through clouds of zillions of other pairs, until finally it reaches the surface of …

June 4, 2009 – 10:11 pm | By Cap'n Refsmmat | Posted in Science | Tagged , | Comments (1)

Dear Lord

Why do You make so many of Your followers so intolerant and hating, and yet make so many more so loving and kind? It makes it so difficult to make sweeping generalizations!

June 27, 2008 – 12:23 am | By Cap'n Refsmmat | Posted in Religion | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Reading the Bible

This summer I thought it would be an interesting project to sit down and read the Bible cover to cover. (Perhaps later I can tackle the Qur’an.) At the time of writing I’m on Numbers 20 (page 170 out of 1217) and generally learning a lot. (The Old Testament God is scary.) But reading the …

June 23, 2008 – 10:24 pm | By Cap'n Refsmmat | Posted in Books, Religion | Tagged , | Comments (5)