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The Last Supper
An Interpretation
In Balloon
Video: Atheists’ Fear - The Banana Proof
The Holy Fruit
For a moment it seems like he’s going to do something rude with that banana.
This is amazingly dumb.
Looking for Love
Hope and Faith: Is my muse better than yours?
Math professor John Allen Paulos, finding himself in an internet cafe in Thailand on Christmas day, helps some women with their English as they chat up their overseas boyfriends.
And great fun it was helping the girls dupe farangs on three continents out of their money via the Western Union office in town.
After a while, however, the pain underlying the men’s instant messages began to weigh on me. The girls had taken to reading me all the messages, and it was clear that most of the men were somewhat forlorn. They seemed to be unmarried, isolated, and searching for a connection, for some sort of emotional salvation. My supercilious attitude toward them and the idealized fantasies they had constructed was morphing into empathy.
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Since it took place on Christmas day, this vignette comes to mind when I meet people who seem to have a fierce yearning to believe, whether in a person or a divinity.
… though I don’t believe in God, I do believe in love, even deluded love. All I’m sure of is that I don’t want to scoff too much at yearning and need, whether it be for love or for a divinity. I just don’t possess the latter.
Spot on. We all need to show compassion for the little delusions which give us comfort. After all, we each have so many of our own.
A Random Act of Kindness
A preacher throws a birthday party for a prositute.
True story: A preacher throws a birthday party for a prositute. I found this story very touching.
As he was beginning to eat, a group of prostitutes entered the diner and sat at the counter, trapping Compolo among them. One of the prostitutes mentioned to her friend that the next day was her birthday. Her friend said cynically, “Why are you telling me? Do you want a party and cake; is that what you want?” The first prostitute, named Agnes, said, “Why do you have to be so nasty? I was just telling you. No, I don’t expect a cake and a party; I’ve never have had a birthday cake in my life!” There was something about this woman that touched Compolo. After they left, he asked Harry if these girls came in every night. When he found out that they did, Compolo and Harry decided to give Agnes a party. Harry did the cake, Compolo did the decorations and Harry’s wife got the word out.
The next morning at 3:15 there were crepe-paper decorations, a huge birthday cake and about thirty prostitutes and street people in the diner. When Agnes walked in, everybody yelled “Surprise” and they sang happy birthday. Agnes almost collapsed, and she began to cry uncontrollably. She was at her very first birthday party, and the party was for her! She didn’t even want to cut the cake; she took it back to her apartment so she could look at it for a couple of days.
As a non-believer, I’ve always been amazed at the lack of love that the church shows towards “sinners.”
But this story gives me faith that there are still those that practice God = Love.
I love your Christ, just not your Christians. - Ghandi
