of Lars J. Nilsson

From Going Postal:

Always push your luck. Because no-one else is going to do it for you.

If you don’t read Edge regularly, perhaps you should. I find it is often a very nice source of thought. And what blew me away the first time I visited the site was The World Question Center. Here’s the idea: Garther a bunch of brilliant achievers and ask them a general, deceivingly simple question. Easy. And interesting.This years question is “What are you optimistic about? Why?” and can be found here.Food for thought indeed.

This must be the funniest thing I’ve see for a long time. Dawkings on the Colbert show. Brilliant stuff but unfortunately only 7 minutes long. Did seem like they enhoyed themselves though. (And if you don’t know Colbert before you better be aware that he is… Perhaps slightly sarcastic. Read this for guidance if you get confused.)Update 2007-02-12: Apparently Viacom has flexed its muscles on YouTube and forced them to removed the video. Link dead… Annoyance!

It was bound to happend:

Yes, we now have confirmation of Steve Irwin’s decision for Christ.

I want to inform Creation Ministries International, that Steve Irwin became a born again Christian two and a half weeks ago at the Kings Church AOG Buderim, Queensland Australia, going forward publicly before the congregation to ask Christ to become his Lord and Saviour.

Many of us will now spend eternity with him. I am sure Terri is comforted as a Christian in the fact that she will be with Jesus and also Steve again for eternity. Steve declared the day before he died that he was the happiest he had ever been in his whole life.

Note that this story is still “undetermined” by Snopes but… Even linked in christian sources encourages people to not fall for it. My bet is that this is a false rumour, anyone against?But even if it is true it makes sad reading. Someone is using the death of another human being, a human being with family and friends who loved him, to advance christianity. It is a sad and ugly thing to do. Especially as this doesn’t seem clear cut, there may be many who take comfort in such an email, and should it turn out to be false… Let’s just say I despise poeple sending such emails quite a bit. The originator may well have sent it in good faith but even so; it’ll just be another example of the rotten moralty of christianity.

So, you all knew the Vatican has an official exorcist, right? Well I bet you didn’t know at Hitler was in fact possesed by a demon. Says Father Gabriele Amorth on how you can tell Hitler, and Stalin too, was indeed possessed:

You can tell by their behaviour and their actions, from the horrors they committed and the atrocities that were committed on their orders.

Indeed. You mean like this? Or like this? Or…What an idiot. And it’s not over:

However I have no doubt that Hitler was possessed and so it does not surprise me that Pope Pius XII tried a long distance exorcism.

But Hitler of course wasn’t stopped by a mere exorcism. Soooo.. does that mean that:

1. He wasn’t possessed after all?
2. He was possessed but God didn’t care?
3. He was possessed but God failed to drive away the demon?
4. Or that God moves in mysterious ways?

What. An. Idiot.