Apparently, Pope Benedict XVI began a televised reading of all 73 books of the Bible
yesterday. Yes, I said “73 books of the Bible” — Protestants who cling to the incomplete canon might do well to tune in to the broadcasts and learn just what they’re missing.
As The Anchoress notes, the Pope is, by taking the Word of God to the airwaves, engaging the Devil on his own turf. This is the sort of battle that needs to take place; may the Holy Spirit guide the wisdom and witness of our most holy Pontiff.
A new documentary is evidently being produced about the human cost of global warming hysteria. The documentary evidently aims to present the issue in the larger historical context of the banning of DDT, and the contribution of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring to that ban, which has cost the lives of millions in Third World nations.
The documentary is evidently called Not Evil, Just Wrong.
Interesting tidbit of Church history: apparently, premillenial theology (very common today in Evangelical Protestantism, and in works of fiction like the Left Behind novels), in addition to being almost universally without merit in the Theology of the early Church, was often closely linked with other, more general perversions of mind, body, and spirit — in this specific case, the lusts and gluttonies of heretics such as Cerinthus and Nepos.
Hells Angels vs. Islamic jihadists in Denmark? That’s the sort of showdown that appears to be shaping up. The Soviet hat tips BCF for the lead on this one. Strange days ahead.
As someone — Rockefeller? — once said: “Can’t they both lose?”
