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I don't think Islam is an authentic Abrahamic religion What I do find interesting is the avalanche of apostasy from Islam that is currently happening. According to polls taken by Western firms, only 40% of people in Iran identify as Muslim. And of the 60% who say they are not Muslim, most say they o...

There is a line from Animal House .... ah, yes .... Forget it, he's rolling. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? I think the funniest line from that scene is the conclusion, "I think this situation absolutely requires that a really futile and stupid gesture be done on someone's p...

Okay, as I read it, it is a statement of sola fide written in the style of the ecumenical councils defining a dogma?

It is a good pastiche I guess, especially if you wrote it in Latin and then translated it, but I don't think it is actually "funny"

The argument the bishops are making is bizarre and completely incoherent, and does not conform to the practice of any other country in the Western world. I think the main reason they are so aggressively in favor of open borders and lax enforcement of the law is that the majority of illegal immigrant...

It is a very difficult book to read

Nothing can fix the NAB. I will never understand the blind hatred so many have for it. But the description is wrong; both the Old and New Testaments are revised, and the notes are completely new as well. It really is an entirely new text, which is why it has a different name. And that article is re...

...seeing someone in 2026 walking around in boots, stirrups, a 10-gallon hat, dressed as a cowboy with a six-shooter on his hip and speaking in cliched cowboy talk. It is inherently ridiculous. ... Nope. You just hang out in the wrong places. Try the Wind River country when the cattle are being mov...

The novel is a comedy, but if you expect the jokes to come rapid fire for the entire novel as it does in the early chapters, you will be disappointed. The novel alternates between comedy and tragedy in nearly equal measure. And yes, that is an authentic quotation, and Cervantes names both the author...

The degree to which Cervantes was genuinely critical of chivalry, rather than merely making fun of the cliches of chivalric literature, is debated. In the first chapter, when describing Don Quixote's library, several real books are mentioned, which Cervantes himself had read. Cervantes quotes from a...

It is estimated that about 40% of Muslim immigrants end up apostasizing from Islam, and the number is even higher among the children and grandchildren of first generation immigrants

What could possibly go wrong? Nothing except occasional bad translations but it is not as if human translations are necessarily any better. The thing that amazes me about this alarmist "AI is evil and will destroy all humanity" mentality is that it is identical to the alarmist "compu...

A Mozart roll?

When I play Scrabble, I often joke with my opponent that I have the letters to spell "transubstantiation", another impossible word.

Yes, I know, it is impossible to play that word

When all else fails, read the directions.

I have been playing Scrabble since I was a teenager so I have developed a habit of counting the value of words, 25 points for such a long word seems low, but most of the letters are only worth one point. However, I am aware of an area on the board where a word that would hit two triple word scores a...

It is worth 25 points in Scrabble, more if it lands on a double or triple word score

Hmmm....I don't think "men talk more than women" is a good boast

There's a video where Sarah Mullally is actually fighting back tears as she says the word "microaggression", in the context of women in the CoE facing microaggressions. That degree of lachrymosity over such a silly concept... I consider a woman pretending to be a priest, never mind a bish...

Highlander wrote: ↑Sun Feb 15, 2026 1:09 pm And not only bishops.

Right, but the conversion of a bishop is a much bigger deal than that of a parish priest or a layman. If a Catholic bishop left the Church to become Lutheran, I would be more concerned than if a 1000 Catholic laymen did the same. Bishops just shouldn't defect.