three loosely-related items

[42itous]

courtesy of Eric and Rubrick:

A Lego church.

Giving your pets religion.

Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Comments

[42itous.livejournal.com]

When I was an English major, I was surprised (though I shouldn't have been) by the number of times my class read something with biblical references and then the prof and my classmates discussed it in class, and I had no clue what they were talking about because I was the only one who hadn't heard that Bible story.

I grew up with the Jewish Bible stories that are associated with specific holidays, plus a few more (Creation, Noah's Ark), but I know practically nothing of the New Testament. I'd love to either agree or differ with your analogy of Samson and terrorists, but I'm afraid even if I went and read the story I'd still be taking it out of context.

Doesn't help, of course, that I'm an atheist. :D

[zvalium.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize you were an atheist... but does that mean you're still Jewish? or do you consider yourself still Jewish? I'm going to go on the assumption that you still do since you seem to like to celebrate things like Shabbat and holidays? Sorry - I know they're personal questions - feel free not to answer! :-)

[42itous.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. I'm Jewish by culture and atheist by religion. I celebrate the holidays because of Tradition -- Shabbat and Hannukah and so on have always been happy family events, so lighting candles and saying brochas and singing songs are comforting and make me feel closer to the Jewish community.

[zvalium.livejournal.com]

Actually - I can totatlly relate to that...