The Best Obama Cameos in Comics

Two articles that I missed in the Comics Alliance Blog this year highlighted how President Barack Obama has been portrayed in Comics books from America, Europe, and Japan. Read the articles. If you like Barack Obama, you'll like this historical treatise!

The Best Obama Cameos in Comics
Obama in Comics: Part 2

Disney Gets Marvel But What Do We Get? | SUPERHERO NEWS

Marvel has completed it's merger with Disney. I like this article and the image that went with it (on the left) and it is a parody of one my all-time favorite covers. Mickey Mouse is cast as Wolverine and Donald Duck as the Hulk. In case you are not aware, the merger is worth more than 4 Billion dollars! What is that we, as fans, will get out of it? I agree with the article. I think Marvel will have a lot less trouble distributing their materials and merchandise. I like the idea of taking lesser known characters like Iron Fist (whom I like) and do television series based on them instead of taking risk developing full movies,

Disney Gets Marvel But What Do We Get? | SUPERHERO NEWS

Christian Apologetics - Life and Doctrine: Trinity : Which Member of the Trinity is Worshipped

Here is another in a series of posts from Mariano who shows that the Trinity is upheld in the Bible through showing that Jesus is equal to God. The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit are all shown and commanded to be worshipped.. He offers several scriptures to prove that!

Christian Apologetics - Life and Doctrine: Trinity : Which Member of the Trinity is Worshipped

FacePalm of the Day #43: Islam and Christianity A Common Word: Coptic Christians: Concealing Testimony of John 1:1

Image via WikipediaThegrandverbalizer is at it again. He tries to make the point that Coptic translations of the John 1:1 says the "Word was a god" not the "Word was God". He wants to make it seem like our modern translations are wrong because he says the Coptic translations are based on older Greek manuscripts that we no longer have access to. Of course he has to describe it that way because we have no Greek manuscripts that experts agree should be translated that way. The things that amazes me is that he tries to disprove the Trinity by attacking the deity of Jesus Christ using John 1:1 directly but quotes a Dan Wallace, an acknowledged expert, who says that John 1:1 does tells us that Jesus is God.

"Few today would take issue with Rudolf Bultmann’s oft-quoted line that “In describing Christ as ‘God’ the New Testament still exercises great restraint.” The list of passages which seem explicitly to identify Christ with God varies from scholar to scholar, but the number is almost never more than a half dozen or so. As is well known, almost all of the texts are disputed as to their affirmation—due to textual or grammatical glitches—John 1:1 and 20:28 being the only two which are usually conceded without discussion." - Dan Wallace

The emphasis is given by Thegrandverbalizer. I'm amazed. Dr Wallace is saying that John 1:1 is conceded as calling Jesus God even by scholars who deny that Jesus is God. However, thegrandverbalizer spends his post attacking John 1:1 due to "textual and grammatical glitches" that the majority of scholars agree is not there in John 1:1.

"Interestingly, he basically says that scholars can't agree on which verses say Jesus is God. This is because of "textual or grammatical glitches" - verses that have different readings in ancient manuscripts (Such as Acts 20:28) or verses which can be validly translated in a non-Trinitarian manner (Such as Hebrews 1:8). Except, he says, John 1:1."

If  John 1:1 has no such glitches and many scholars would disagree that  Acts 20:28 and Hebrews 1:8 has such glitches. To go to a translation to get around something that a text plainly says is really a sign of desperation. Serious FacePalm.

Islam and Christianity A Common Word: Coptic Christians: Concealing Testimony of John 1:1

Does God Exist? | Events recordings | American Jewish University ( AJULA )

Here is a great discussion between a Jew, Rabbi David Wolpe, and an Atheist, Sam Harris. I've seen the Rabbi interviews in documentaries and I like him, although I do disagree with him on certain things. I think Sam Harris is wrong about several things. He thinks that science and religion are opposites. I think that Wolpe did a great job against Harris. Because Harris does not have a leg to stand on. You cannot evaluate morality or a "good life" or "happiness" scientifically.




Does God Exist? | Events recordings | American Jewish University ( AJULA )