'Ultimate Spider-Man' Artist Sara Pichelli Is A Killer Storyteller - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
'Ultimate Spider-Man' Artist Sara Pichelli Is A Killer Storyteller - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
'Ultimate Spider-Man' Artist Sara Pichelli Is A Killer Storyteller - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
FacePalm of the Day #117 - Debunking Christianity: Proof Evangelicals Will Do Whatever it Takes to Continue Believing: "Evangelicals Question The Existence Of Adam And Eve"
They are doing what each generation of Christian thinkers have done from the very beginning. The future of Christianity will not be the same as it is today. It's just that like all other evolving organisms and systems of thought, they evolve so slowing it's hard to detect it. Evangelicals would be appalled at the Christianity of a century or more ago, and they will be equally appalled at the Christianity a century or more from now. Evangelicals, give it up. Enjoy
I am amazed but not surprised at how the article reads as if that all scientists have come to the conclusion that there is no way Adam and Eve had been real living people. It's not true. I agree that the historicity of Adam and Eve is the crux of Christianity. I think this is why people want to prove it's not true. Without Adam enslaving humanity to sin, there is no need for Jesus to have come and die for us. The entire Bible is built on this fact. I'm not saying that we should believe the Bible to make sure that Christianity is true. There is no reason to just accept that Genesis says that people only go back 6000 years There are good reasons to think that earth and humanity is a great deal older than that v - Scientific and Biblical. Bottom Line: There is no reason to throw the Bible under the bus in order to be rational and scientific. Truly a FacePalm.
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Debunking Christianity: Proof Evangelicals Will Do Whatever it Takes to Continue Believing: "Evangelicals Question The Existence Of Adam And Eve"
Race at Marvel and DC Comics: Sometimes They Get It Right - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
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Image by Gage Skidmore via FlickrI realize that it's usually bigger news when the media makes mistakes regarding race than when they are actually trying to improve things and increase diversity. This is why I really like this article from Comics Alliance. It's a count down of things Marvel and DC have done to try to bring diversity to the comics Industry. They indeed some times does somethings right. It points out a couple of things I hadn't thought about - Wolverine's son is half-Japanese and Batman's son is part Arabic. I had not really thought of it that way before. And it is true Marvel has invested a lot in Black Panther -determined to make it work. Marvel and DC are trying and it is commendable
Race at Marvel and DC Comics: Sometimes They Get It Right - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
Answering Muslims: Sharia Law: Battlefield London
Answering Muslims: Sharia Law: Battlefield London
Dress For The Job You Want? - G4tv.com
Had it been me...it probably would have been a Spider-Man costume.
Dress For The Job You Want? - G4tv.com
Captain America and Superhero Worldviews, Part 2 | Reflections
Captain America and Superhero Worldviews, Part 2 | Reflections
Monday, August 8, 2011
The Saddest Day on the Jewish Calendar | Dr. Claude Mariottini – Professor of Old Testament
The fast of Tisha B’Av begins this Monday evening at sundown and ends on Tuesday night. The fast of Tisha B’Av is known as the “saddest” day on the Jewish calendar.
Tisha B’Av is the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av, a day when the Jewish people remember some of the great tragedies suffered by the Jewish People. Tisha B’Av is a day set apart to lament the anniversaries of the destruction of the First Temple by the Babylonians and of the Second Temple by Romans.
Read the entire article to learn what events are remembered on this day.
The Saddest Day on the Jewish Calendar | Dr. Claude Mariottini – Professor of Old Testament
Parting Shot: Understanding the Ultimate Spider-Man Controversy - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
I think that there is a really interesting take on the recent racial issues brought up in new Ultimate Spider-Man
So in other words, it's not like the Comics Industry hasn't done this before. The problem is it's Spider-Man and Spider-Man is high profile.
Parting Shot: Understanding the Ultimate Spider-Man Controversy - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
Cartoonist Ty Templeton has tackled the negative reaction by a number of people in the mainstream media (and comics) to the new half-black, half-Hispanic Ultimate Spider-Man Miles
Morales in a new edition of his regular Bun Toons comic. I predict this will clear everything up:
So in other words, it's not like the Comics Industry hasn't done this before. The problem is it's Spider-Man and Spider-Man is high profile.
Parting Shot: Understanding the Ultimate Spider-Man Controversy - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Not Even Mentioning the best Evidence
Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Not Even Mentioning the best Evidence
Watch The Avengers: EMH! (2010) Season 1- Ep. 20! | Avengers | Movie & TV News | News | Marvel.com
Watch The Avengers: EMH! (2010) Season 1- Ep. 20! | Avengers | Movie & TV News | News | Marvel.com
Answering Muslims: On the Radicalization of Anders Behring Breivik
Answering Muslims: On the Radicalization of Anders Behring Breivik
Saturday, August 6, 2011
FacePalm of the Day #116 - Debunking Christianity: Osama Bin Laden Was Probably a Good Man
Osama Bin Laden was probably a good man; sincere, devout and God fearing. But all it takes to make good people do evil is religion. Keep that in mind. That is the lesson of his life. He was deluded in the same way as other believers. Some delusions cause more harm than others though, and he caused a great deal of it. The problem is he will never know he was deluded. Neither will any of the rest of them. What a waste of a life.
John Loftus and many atheists said much the same thing about Anders Behring Behring a few weeks ago. They blamed religion for the acts of Bin Landen and Behring. Truly facepalm worthy because the attitude is that Bin Laden would what have been a better person but his religion corrupted him as if every Muslim would do what he did. The same accusation was made about Behring. However no one can honestly say that Behring is a Christian. He has way more in common with John Loftus' fantasy Christianity than with any born-again Christian I have known. Again, David Wood more than proved this. Go back and watch his video if you missed it.
Debunking Christianity: Osama Bin Laden Was Probably a Good Man
Contra Mundum: Consenting Adults and Harm | MandM
In debates over abortion, homosexual conduct, euthanasia, prostitution, drugs, those who call themselves liberals often mount the same basic argument; a socially or morally permissive stance is necessitated towards such practices because people have a right to choose do what ever they like with their own bodies.As John Stuart Mill put it in his book On Liberty:
Here Mill articulates the harm principle.“The only part of the conduct of anyone, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.” [Emphasis added]
Read Flannagan's article at the following link!
Contra Mundum: Consenting Adults and Harm | MandM
Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Desperate and Dubious Muslim Polemical Methods
Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: Desperate and Dubious Muslim Polemical Methods
Wireless Data From Every Light Bulb [Video]
What if every light bulb in the world could also transmit data? At TEDGlobal, Harald Haas demonstrates, for the first time, a device that could do exactly that. By flickering the light from a single LED, a change too quick for the human eye to detect, he can transmit far more data than a cellular tower — and do it in a way that’s more efficient, secure and widespread.
Wireless Data From Every Light Bub [Video]
On Air Debate with Bart Ehrman about the book Forged (Aug 6 revised) Podcast Now Posted | Bible.org Blogs
On Air Debate with Bart Ehrman about the book Forged (Aug 6 revised) Podcast Now Posted | Bible.org Blogs
Website for the program
Friday, August 5, 2011
Debunking Christianity: Richard Carrier vs. JP Holding - New Testament Textual Reliability
Here is the debate between JP Holding and Dr Richard Carrier. John Loftus posted the debate on his blog. I think it's worth watching. Debunking Christianity: Richard Carrier vs. JP Holding - New Testament Textual Reliability
Drudge Report Thinks New Spider-Man 'Could Be Gay,' Glenn Beck (and Colbert) Protest Diversity - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
I'm not even sure where he even got the idea that Miles was going to be portrayed as gay? I have not even heard of a single such report. No one deserves that kind of hate and ignorance. I see nothing wrong with Comics characters that look like the people who read them. I wonder how people like generate enough brain power to keep their autonomic nervous system working. If that isn't proof of God's mercy and power, it's hard to point to a better example.
Fortunately, Beck's stupidity isn't being ignored. Stephen Colbert mocks such "news" coverages:
And then there was this awesome mashup.
To make this even more stranger is that Michael Davis who is African-American has been approached to develop television for the 11-16 age demographic for...Beck TV! Does Davis have the track record, experience, and talent to pull that job off. Yup! But he will not sell out on his principles. Davis writes the following:
IS YOU STUPID??I love to see someone standing up for what they believe in. Someone has to draw the line somewhere. I don't really think that Beck is that stupid, but the people who are in charge of Beck TV is. Looks like someone wants to be Oprah while lambasting Barack Obama and Marvel Comics.
Now if I were a sell out Negro, I’m sure I could create some shows for Massa Beck that I’m sure he would love…
How about, Nigger-Man? It’s an animated show about a Black superhero on welfare.
Or…The Nigger Family, that’s show about a black family on welfare.
Perhaps, Name that African American would make a good show. It’s an educational game show where the kids get to name the black person.
They name them all, nigger.
I’m fully aware that there is a good chance that the company that asked me to create something for Glen Beck may see this.
So be it. If it destroys my relationship there I could care less. If by some miracle Beck sees this and wonders why I just didn’t take the money and ignore everything else I say this,
I’m not that nigger.
Drudge Report Thinks New Spider-Man 'Could Be Gay,' Glenn Beck (and Colbert) Protest Diversity - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
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