15 December 2006

Hal's Friday Evening Blog #11 - Bible News

As Christmas, and the attending flashing lights of the... paramedics, lie in wait, Hal bows to the superior intellect and culture of The Daily Mail by returning, after many weeks, to a Christian theme...

Bible News sounded initially like an oxymoron to me. Wasn't the text meant to be finalised by the 4th century CE or thereabouts, bar the odd bit of fiddling about by the Catholic Church? But of course it's not the text itself but the dissemination formats that are the news. For a start there's this little guy, who looks like the ROM cartridges you used to get for 80s home computers or synthesisers:



It is in fact a "100 song contemporary Christian music chip for 'LDSL2100, LDSL3000 and LDSL3700'" - whatever they may be. Looks like the ideal stocking filler for many of us.

Other fascinating products include the 6 DVD Bible Collection, reviewed as

the most important story from the Bible, and the production is more than excelent [sic]. I can say that accuracy is 80% from the Bible [so what is the other 20% I wonder?]


and the intriguing Jewish Activity Bag. One has to wade through a lot of Bible verses to get to this stuff, but there you go.

Returning to the 'Christian blog' theme reminds me that it's time to take a look at what's been happening over at the very first blog review, Ethics and Morals for America's Future. The guy has now expanded his first post, dated 14 Sep 06, into an incredible 7,597 words. Could this be the longest single blog post ever? (Probably not.) Will this guy ever learn to use the blog "properly"? (Probably not.) He has been lucky enough to attract one comment, from a "dave r":

Very interesting website. I am writing a book called "In God We Still Trust". It is about the overwhelming documentation that this nation was founded as a Christian Nation.

Unfortunately, the ACLU is trying to destroy history.


I had a look at the ACLU website and couldn't find much evidence of this. But maybe they had got there before me and destroyed it? The link on 'not just pizza' is particularly interesting.

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