Archive for May, 2008

Faith, Hope and Charity

Friday, May 30th, 2008

There’s a famous passage in the Bible where Paul of Tarsus talks about faith, hope and charity. Of these, he cites charity as the greatest, though listening to modern Christians it sure seems like they place faith at the top of the list. Given this discontinuity, I decided to talk about the three […]

Spiritual Consumption

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

God likes things in threes. There’s the Holy Trinity of the Christian God (that’s the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost). There’s the three big religions based on “the God of Abraham.” And there’s that line in “The Hunting of the Snark” that goes, “What I tell you three times is […]

Mass Production

Friday, May 16th, 2008

After I discussed with God last week a little of what capitalism and religion have in common, he took some time this week to point out some other similar things. Not things that are essential to capitalism or religion but things that are in the same vein.
The main thing he talked about was the […]

The Price of Souls

Friday, May 9th, 2008

I was thinking about politics this week so of course I decided to talk to God about capitalism. I do live in the United States after all.
What I wanted to know, is what does God see in common between capitalism and religion. For instance, one of the basic tenets of capitalism is that […]

Acid Test

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Albert Hoffman died this week. It was seventy years ago when he discovered LSD and sixty-five years ago when he (accidentally) became the first person to go on an acid trip. He lived to the ripe old age of 102.
While God and I talked about that, she admitted that a lot of religious […]