76 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 2-11-13”

  1. Favorite dessert? Key Lime Pie. I usually try to find someone to split a slice with me. Considering I married a man with a serious sweet tooth, this is no longer a problem.

    Adventures in riding with a 15 year old driving:
    Yesterday she sat at the green light and motioned for the car that was stopped on her left to go.
    She made it to the next stop light where she got in the left turn lane then went straight.

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  3. Coconut cake. Mumsee used to make virtual cocanut cakes for my birthday.
    Sometimes she would hide a slice of onion in it. 😥

    Did Chloe turn 15? These children are growing up fast.
    Notice I didn’t say “maturing”. That comes later, with experience.
    You need to be considerate, but not too nice, on the road.
    We have lots of four way stop signs in Hendersonville. If two cars arrive simultaneously, the car on the right has right of way. It’s frustrating and time consuming when the person with the right of way doesn’t take it.
    Being nice means knowing and obeying the common rules.

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  5. QoD: Being gluten free I love creme brulee. But I remember two things from high school I only had once, but still remember; one was a caramel souffle and the other a Scandinavian thing that was like 10 thin cakes stacked with apricot filling, then you let it sit till the apricots saturate the cake. Yummmm!

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  7. Here is an Alternative Question of the Day: If you were the new Pope, and could have that favorite dessert every day except during Lent–what name would you choose?

    AQoD: I think I would be Pope Atticus

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  9. It must be an extreme Southern thing—Key Lime Pie. Best to me is the one I make which uses some of the whipped up meringue in the filling as well as on top.

    German Chocolate cake is really wonderful, too, and also a Black Forest Cake that I make sometimes for my husband’s birthday. So the Germans do desserts well IMHO. (In My Hungry Opinion)

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  10. Kim, those driving stories are too funny. Waving someone through a red light is classic. 🙂 Hope they didn’t fall for it.

    I did something similar to the left-hand-turn lane going straight on my very first driving test. (Except I think in my case I made a left-hand turn from a regular lane having failed to get into the left-hand turn pocket).

    Wheeee!

    The poor examiner next to me musta been hyperventilating as he tried to calmly give me directions back to the DMV. I was crushed that I’d failed.

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  11. So the banana cream pie I bought in a weak moment Saturday because I was in such a funk over work has somehow survived intact through the weekend in my refrigerator. I’ll take it into work today to share.

    Seriously, I was so depressed Saturday I figured I’d just grab a spoon and go at the thing as soon as I got home. If they’d had coconut or chocolate cream I would have gotten that instead. But banana cream, I figured, would do. 😉

    Yeah, what’s with the pope resigning? Can they do that? I guess they can. Let the speculation for his replacement begin. Guess Mahony’s now out of the running for good.

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  12. Yes, teaching a young person to drive is one of the most difficult things to do in life. It seems we spent days practicing in large parking lots that were empty on the weekend. Finally I decided he could venture out onto the street so he drove down to another office park lot to drive through and practice in it. I was not aware that we happened to be in the headquarters lot for our county police and fire personnel. 🙂 Not a cool place to practice.

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  13. I don’t think we have taught anybody under the age of seventeen to drive and don’t anticipate doing so with any of these though there are a couple of them who might be mature enough at sixteen. All of the older ones have been driving for some time as they help out on various farms and that just comes with the territory. They can drive swathers and tractors and trucks and cars and four wheelers.

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  16. Dessert: Definitely cheesecake. Doesn’t matter what kind as long as it’s cheesecake. Pairs wonderfully with black coffee. Yummy!

    We got a new cheesecake factory nearby and I still haven’t been there yet. I’m afraid I would lose control if I went.

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  17. I just finished reading The Islamic Antichrist, by Joel Richardson. An interesting book, but much of what he says is in God’s War on Terror which Richardson co-wrote with Walid Shoebat.
    The most interesting new thing in this book is his discussion of Muslim eschatology. It seems to be a mirror image of Christian eschatology. Briefly, it’s like this:
    During a time of great turmoil, the Mahdi will arise in Turkey and reestablish the Caliphate. He will be assisted by Jesus who is in heaven awaiting the time to return and assist the Mahdi, who will be his superior. Jesus never died, but was taken into heaven as Elijah was. Jesus will remove all crosses and other things that implied that he died. There will be an impostor called al-Dajji who is blind in one eye and will oppose them. But Jesus will defeat him and everyone will become Muslim.
    It is, of course, more complicated than this, but this seems to be the essence.
    A complete mirror of Christian eschatology.
    Fascinating.

    The book is on my Kindle. I borrowed it from the library. First time I’ve borrowed a Kindle book. I have it for a week, but I will return it today; as soon as I learn how.

    :-)

    An interesting thing about downloading the book. When I order from Amazon, the book appears instantly. When I clicked to borrow this book, nothing happened. I kept looking to see what I did wrong. Nothing. So, I left my Kindle on and went away for some tea. When I returned it was there.
    Apparently, it takes about five minutes to download a borrowed book. I’ll have to allow that for returning.

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  19. Good Morning! Major migraine yesterday wiped me out for the entire day….I had to go sit in the car during Sunday School…I missed our last video teaching on the Holy Spirit by Sinclair Ferguson….but I have the handout!
    Snowy and cold here today…just turned down a sub job for today….just don’t have it in me
    I love white coconut cake….nothing like it…although the mention of the chocolate creme pie has me thinking Donna….I think I have the fixin’s for that in the pantry!
    Have a blessed day today everyone….it’s my Mom’s 83rd birthday today….so blessed she is here…wish I was there with her 😦 (I did send her lovely flowers to celebrate the day!)

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  20. JaniceG (10:29), that’s an excellent article, it was making the rounds on FB last week. For me it’s a vivid example of how God chooses us first. We “choose” (or think we choose) Him only after he’s regenerated us. Often it is the most unlikely people, amen?

    As for gay people being “born that way,” my take on that is it probably does seem that way for those who have been inclined to being gay since an early age. Whether there is some genetic basis in some people — or it just begins at such a young age — seems irrelevant to me when it comes to God’s word.

    There also have been signs that there could be genetic predispositions for behaviors like alcoholism and drug abuse. But are those lifestyles healthy just because people are “born” with that inclination?

    Or is it accepted as a particular area of weakness that will need to be guarded against and resisted?

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  21. Driving –

    I did not get my driver’s license until I was 24 and had 2 children. It wasn’t a high priority for daughters to drive in my family when I was in high school. My permit expired twice.

    Since I was just 5 days short of my 18th birthday when I joined the army, I didn’t really need one for quite sometime because the army always took me everywhere I needed to go and I was in schools for the first year and a half. Everything was pretty much withinin walking or marching distance.

    So when I finally got to my permanent duty station, I was always in the motor pool “maintaining” the vehicle that all of my high speed equipment rode on. We used 5 quarter ton trucks (pick-ups), and jeeps.

    My platoon leader decided that I needed to learn how to drive and he assigned some poor Joe in my platoon to teach me. The “teacher” had a stutter and I made it way worse. Of course clutching and shifting were a huge problem for me, and I hiccuped that poor jeep down the road (in Germany). All the while the poor Joe was saying to me “Y-y-y-y-youi’re d-d-doing f-f-fiiiine, K-k-karen, y-y-you’re d-d-doing f-f-f-fiiiine! That really instilled confidence. (NOT).

    I think they finally decided that I was a lost cause, because I only had about 2 driving lessons.

    In my off duty time, I walked everywhere,or caught a ride with someone or just took a taxi or train somewhere.

    Then when I got out and lived in Berlin (before the fall of the Wall), I could go anywhere. There was always a German bus or the Metro or an Army bus to take me wherever I wanted to go.

    I was in a world of hurt when we moved to the most remote housing area on Ft. Devens. Nothing was within walking distance, and my husband was always away for some kind of training.

    My good friend, Saint Barbara, decided that my quality of life would be greatly improved if I had a license so she volunteered her husband to teach me how to drive while she watched our kids. He was also a good friend on my husband’s. Of course, most of the lessons took place in the evenings and on weekends. One Friday night, the first lesson, he took me to the local high school parking lot. There was a dance going on, so he drove us to the service road by the bus lot. He was showing me all the stuff in the driver’s cockpit and a policeman pulled up behind us, lights flashing. (The policeman thought we wereescapees from the dance and gone up there to park.) I was in the driver seat, petrified, hands white-knuckled on the steering wheel. Mr. Saint Barbara got out of the car and started to explain, and the officer said, “I know, you’re teaching your wife to drive a stick.” he responded, “Well, actually, yes.” The policeman chuckled and told us to stay away from the kids at the dance.

    After the policeman left, I asked him, “why did you tell him I was your wife?” He said, “I wasn’t about to tell him I was teaching my friend’s wife how to drive!”

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  24. (smilie was for Kalasko’s driving stories) My dad tried to teach my mom how to drive when she was in her 30s. I still remember how he stormed into the house and my mom was in tears after the first or second lesson.

    She wound up going to a driving school. Probably saved the marriage.

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  27. My mother never learned to drive. We all tried to teach her. I noticed with kids that they can get to an age where it is really hard to teach them to ride a bike. It is a lot harder to teach a 9 year old than it is to teach a 5 year old. I wonder if it is that way with driving a car.

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  28. Elvera bought a ’49 Chevrolet. Her dad drove it home. Her brother, Ted, showed her how to change gears and she taught herself to drive in the church parking lot. They lived in the country.

    My dad gave me some lessons, but we had driver’s ed in high school.
    I taught Chuck to drive, but he also had driver’s ed. He needed to pass that in Va. before he could get his license.

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  29. Husband really enjoys teaching the children to drive a stick. The parent becomes an item of awe as the child stalls over and over saying, “you can do this??”

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  30. Good Morning Y’all!

    Donna J – so…a dog show or a dog AND pony show?

    Ice cream…then pie (any kind will do!)

    Learned to drive in a surplus Korean War era Jeep…in cornfields.

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  31. Learning a stick is hard. We had simulators in drivers’ ed in high school but I always “stalled” out (in a virtual way).

    But when I got an old VW bug, it was sink or swim. For several days I stalled A LOT. Then, one day, it all kind of clicked. The Jeep I have now is the first automatic car I’ve ever had, I really learned to love driving a stick shift and I still sometimes miss it.

    But not a lot. Especially in bumper-to-bumper freeway traffic or on steep hills when you have to stop (and I live in a town that has lots of steep hills).

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  32. inbutnotof, you know, you’re right — we do have a dog and pony show both on Tuesday night. 🙂

    I’m off to get reaction to the pope’s resignation from whomever I can find hanging around the nearest Catholic church, then it’s on in to work.

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  34. Yesterday’s conversation between me and my sister who is best described as an atheist Quaker:
    S: I decided to give up dinner for Lent; so far it’s working out quite well
    Me: Lent doesn’t start until this Wednesday
    S: Oh well, when you’re a Quaker you can make up your own rules
    Me: so I’ve noticed
    S: I just eat yogurt and some fruit
    Me: Isn’t that dinner?
    S: (ignoring my question) I hope I can stick with it and might continue it even after Lent
    Me: If you can make up your own rules, why don’t you make Lent last all year?
    S: That’s a good idea; I think I will

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  35. Dessert: do I have to choose just one?

    For cake: chocolate with whipped cream frosting

    For pie: blueberry or pumpkin

    Then there are chocolate cookies, chocolate chip cookies, dark chocolates, chocolate ice creams (moose tracks, chocolate with peanut butter, etc.).

    But in the summer, nothing beats a slice of perfectly ripe watermelon, unless it’s a couple of excellent apricots or a sweet, juicy peach and some cherries. Or mixed berries with a bit of whipped cream. (I can’t eat strawberries any more, but blueberries and raspberries, and sometimes a splurge of one strawberry, make a divine treat.)

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  36. You don’t eat watermelon for dessert!
    You eat it in the afternoon or evening, and only when the weather’s hot.
    I have seen watermelon on a cafeteria line. It’s for Yankees who might come through and don’t know the protocol.
    😆

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  37. First time I ever had watermelon was when I was eating dinner at a friend’s house next door. I noticed they all were putting white stuff on their watermelon. I assumed it was sugar. They all cracked up when I took the sugar bowl and put sugar on my watermelon. (Don’t know how I wouldn’t have noticed they were using salt shakers, but I was a kid — and feeling nervous ’cause I didn’t know any watermelon protocol.)

    Got the Catholics interviewed, including a Sister Mary from Ireland who was very nice. 🙂 She saw my celtic cross necklace and said, “Oh, so you’re Catholic too.”

    “Um, no, Presbyterian actually.”

    “Oh. Well, They’re good people,” she said. 🙂

    Not sure about that. But we do have a good God.

    (My observation about those who learn to drive late in life, including a couple girlfriends and my mom, is that they’re more jittery behind the wheel, anxious. I learned when I was 15, my mom taught me the basics then I took drivers’ ed; I LOVED driving, still do to be honest.)

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  41. Watermelon should be eaten very cold on a hot afternoon/evening with as many friends from the neighborhood as possible. Many of my favorite memories involve that fellowship…

    re the pie…Cherry above all, for me…

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  42. Ree: Lots of reading there. I did print it and read it; but I didn’t see a part 3.
    An interesting concept that Islam is a parody of Christianity. (But not funny.) When Leithart says that Islam is a mirror of Christianity, he means that it “exposes our filings and calls us to faithfulness”, I disagree that it exposes anything. My understanding is that Mohammed had an experience in a cave that upset him for days. Then he began to welcome and embrace the visions. I believe, (And this is just a theory that I have from my study, I haven’t passed it through anyone else.) that Satan has concocted a “mirror” religion that is everything that Christianity is, but just backward. Every teaching we hold dear is one they violate:
    Love your enemy,
    Salvation by grace,
    Forgiveness,
    They do take care of their own.
    They practice modesty to the extreme (for women, it’s a man’s religion).
    They retain many of the Jewish laws.
    They use any means, especially force, to propagate their religion. Someone mentioned “the bloody borders of Islam”. Jihad is a prescribed activity.
    They expanded by promising their soldiers: Booty if they were victorious,
    Heaven with 70 virgins if they died. Many favored death. It’s easy to understand why.
    I’m doing too much here. It would take pages to work this out.

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  44. Donna, I was a nervous driver until I moved to the Northern Virginia/Washington DC area. Another case of sink or swim. I had to get over that real quick. The Lord got me over it. Within about a year, I was driving 4 times a week from just north of Quantico to pick up a friend at Ft. Devens for daily radiation of chemo and doctor. visits to Walter Reed Army Hospital. She had breast cancer. I drover her for the last 2 months of her life, until she decided she was done with making those trips. I had to set aside my fear of driving to help my friend. For me it was a trial by fire.

    I am no longer a nervous driver, but I would rather not drive any farther north than the mixing bowl in Springfield. And since I don’t have to, I don’t.

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  46. Favorite dessert: ice cream, with chocolate either in it or over it. Neither cake nor pie tempts me. They’re okay. I’d rather have just a homemade chocolate chip cookie.
    I love watermelon too, but only in the summer, preferably outdoors held in your hand. My husband will eat it any day, anytime, any temp, but he was born in Yankee territory so maybe that explains it.
    I got my driver’s license at 16, but my husband taught me how to drive a stick later on. I think you have to drive one regularly for a while after you learn how to be comfortable with it. I had driven his a few times, but not well, but after we bought a little hatchback with a stick for me to drive to work is when I got comfortable with one. I prefer an automatic now, but will drive either. A stick is much better in the snow. We own both, and son owns a stick. Hubby made sure the kids can drive one. I think it’s a good thing to know. My 15 year old will be eligible for his learner’s permit in a week or two. I’m not looking forward to it.

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  47. I was stationed in Saudi Arabia for eight months in 1952 while in the Air Force. I thought that Allah was just another name for God. But I was wrong. Allah is a different god. Confront any Muslim and he will tell you so. Allah and Jehovah God are not the same.
    After 2001, I studied lots about Islam. I read the Koran, and several books about the religion.
    I have concluded that we are in a war with Islam. None of our leaders will admit it, and I can’t blame them. But we have been at war since the Beirut bombings in 1983 and Kobar towers in 1996. It’s all part of the same thing. Islam means to drive us out of all Muslim lands, then expand throughout the world. They are relentless. Muslim men are taught that there is no greater glory than to be a martyr for Allah. They thus have a handle on God. God is obliged to give them 72 shame faced virgins, and the option of assuring that a certain number, (I have heard as high as fifty) of his kin are guaranteed entrance to Heaven. Not only that, the pain of dying is “like a pinprick”. You conquer a city, behead all the men, enslave all the women and take the stuff. Or, if killed, you get a place where there are trees and rivers and your choice of women. (Also, you have the stamina of (I’ve heard the number 100) many men. They don’t need Viagra.) How can you top that?

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  48. Chas – I have pretty much thought the same thing. Islam is a counterfeit and the exact opposite of our Judeo-Christian foundations. Israel/Ishmael, God is Love/Allah is a vengeful, hating god. Angels in the Bible say “Fear not,” and “do not bow to me,” Angels in the Koran tell people to bow down, and they want people to fear them, I could go on and on… I started a file of notes on that topic.

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  49. Chas – I want to know what grevious sin all those virgins committed to deserve that fate in the Muslim afterlife. The sin of being born female? Doesn’t sound like a good deal for the women.

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  50. Mmmmm… Pumpkin pie. 🙂

    And no Chas, even up North here, watermellon is not dessert. Cold, sliced and on the side for cookouts is best. Otherwise, no thanks.

    But fruit by itself can’t be dessert. Not even fruit salad. That’s a salad for before or with food, not dessert. It’s a law I think, everywhere north of Maryland.

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  51. KLasko, I am not clear on what a martyred woman gets, except she is received into paradise by her parents, and has the option of selecting others. Islam is a man’s religion. Some women convert, but I don’t know why.

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  53. We have used watermelon for our dessert here in Georgia. I suppose it relates to my brother having had diabetes since age two. Fruit was a dessert oftentimes in our family. Sometimes we have not had room in the refrigerator to cool it and it is acceptable and even good when room temp but cold is best. I like it with salt and without salt. I have not had it with salt in a long time since I have tried to eat less salt. I love watermelon.

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  54. I guess I should have said we have eaten watermelon for dessert. I am not sure used watermelon would be worth trying 🙂 . Somehow I picture it being soggy and devoid of a lot of its juice at the same time.

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  55. Don’t swallow the watermelon seed or it will grow in your tummy. 😉

    I like to cut it up and keep it in the refrigerator and just happen by for a bite every now and then.

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  59. Kim, the vines will grow out of your eyes and nose. I never saw anyone like this, but that’s what mama said, so it must be so.
    I also feel cheated by seedless watermelon. It’s an invention of the devil.
    Part of the fun of a watermelon picnic is spitting the seed. Sometimes at each other. But mostly to see who could spit the farthest.

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  60. Janice, I read the link you provided about a lesbian who became a Christian, married a man, and became a Christian. I am not sure what your point is.

    There are over 7 billion people on earth. There are a lot of people. Without much difficulty I am sure you can find an example that illustrates any kind of erroroneous thinking or peculiar behavior. I an not surprised by what she wrote. I am not surprised by her change in behavior. I would be a bit surprised (though not astonished) if ten years from now she still believes the same nonsense and is till happily married to the same man. I probably won’t be alive ten years from now, so there is no point in making a bet.

    1. There is no empirical evidence for the existence of God. None. Zero. 2. Humans are over-sexed creatures. That is why we (in my opinion) overpopulate the earth. Without going into sordid details (that might get me banned from this web site), and without talking about what used to be called “self-abuse,” and without talking about perfectly innocent objects such as bedknobs and bedposts, perfectly innocent devices such as vibrators (quite useful for a perfectly innocent and beneficial activity such as massage for men and women), perfectly innocent and therapeutic activities such as massage, rub downs, kneading, and manipulation, and without maligning uses to which sweet creatures such as cats, dogs, and horses have been put . . . well, let’s just say humans are overly inclined to naugtiness. Not that a single person reading this has ever engaged in naughtiness.

    3. Although there is no philosophical justification for virtuous and altruistic behavior, 95% of human beings (at least) will not engage in murder, torture, and rape unless deluded by religious fanatacism, atheistic fanaticism, fear, delusions foisted by sociopathic charismatics such as Hitler or Stalin. As Jesus may not have existed, and (in my opinion) certainly wan’t born of a virgin or rose from the dead (shall we go over the saying something over and over again mantra?) saying it is because of Jesus is the reason you behave in a virtuous and altruistic way makes no more sense to me than claiming that there is an “old earth” and a “young earth” theory of gravity. You do “believe in” and have “faith in” gravity, don’t you?

    I am sure you behave in a virtuous and altruistic way (though you may indeed have sin in your heart). Please assure me I am not wrong in that child-like acceptane of your good (if flawed) nature.

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  61. I just noticed the link about the lesbian who found God you posted took me to Christianity Today.. Aren’t you being unfaitful, so to speak, to World magazine? Probably for reasons that escape me, there are probably thousands of Christian magazines. I would think people would weary of reading the same nonsense, but I suppose in “Heaven” and in the actual presence of God and Christ and HG, people still have nothing better to do than read about them. In between petting their dogs and cats and baking brownies, and what not.

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  62. I read the article and what I got out of it was that we Christians need to stop trying to change people on the outside before He changes them on the inside.

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  63. Chas, I never returned any of the library books I borrowed for my Kindle. They just mysteriously leave when the time is up. I am usually finished reading them long before that time, so it is ashame that someone else cannot enjoy them earlier. They have to wait for mine to be ‘returned’. Let me know if you find a way to do that. I have never asked at the library.

    I like my pastry puff dessert with french creme filling and dark chocolate on the top. I like way too many desserts, though. That is our standard Easter dessert.

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  64. Kathleena, I just figured it out.
    You have to go to Amazon.
    to “Manage your account” . You need your password.
    That will bring up all the books you have purchased.
    On the right side, opposite the book you selected, there is an “Action” button.
    You click on that, and one of the options is to delete the book.

    It doesn’t make sense to me that it should be harder to return a book than borrow it.
    I was going to let the time expire, but I had to wait for it, so I thought someone else might want it too.

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  65. Now I need to find a way to get the title off my Kindle.
    It has the title with (loan ended) in front of it.
    I did learn, in my search, that there is a way to loan a Kindle book.

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  66. Here’s the problem. Christians as one time tried to “change people” by threatening them. Believe as I do or I will burn you at the stake, hang you, etc. People such as Roger Williams said, “Tacky, tacky. Just demonstrate how to live and people will so admire you they will want to change.” Roger actually lived up pretty well to what he preached. Didn’t exactly work that much better (sorry Roger), but certainly much less tacky. Kbells, you win the Roger Williams award for today. Even if you demonstrate celbate and heterosexual behavior, people will still (you know) and even if you demonstrate tolerance (not quite very popular here at Wandering Views) humans will be intolerant. We are bad to the bone as the old song goes and no matter how much you pray, we are on our own and Jesus is never going to return. Deal with it.

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  68. If we give you a billy goat, will you at least stop being a grumpy troll? I mean if you think about it, a troll is just a lawn gnome with a bad attitude. Try getting in touch with your gnomey side once in a while. But remember, watch out for the weed whacker.

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  69. I got some of my books today, along with a box of MREs we’re going to have at the launch party. It was fun watching my husband read the dedication–to him, of course! 🙂

    I thought I wrote a post to tell Klasko I loved her driving story . . . ? It’s been a crazy day and I’ve got some good stories for tomorrow when I have a life again. 🙂

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  70. I will be a more cheerful troll if you bless my daughter’s legal marriage to her 20-year partner and the birth mother to Random Granddaughter who thinks it’s perfectly reasonable to have two mommies in Seattle (now legally married), and two daddies in Chicago who show no interest in gettig married.

    Again, it’s an interesting puzzle. Most humans are getting over an irrational and very little point hostility to homosexuality; Christianity (a very silly but very strong imo meme) is having trouble doing its usual change while pretending not to change metamorphis that has enabled it to survive for thousands of years. My bets (no money involved):

    Christianity will find a way to wash homosexual marriage in the blood of the lambkins, and despite the absolute lack of empirical reason for its existence will survive in the unlikely event human beings survive for even a hundred much less a thousand years.

    Is there even one person here so daring and so non conforming as to bless my daughter’s legal marriage (with no snarky remarks). I will try to say something nice about Christianity if you do. Perhaps you should write the statement I should say without saying something I don’t believe. Almost as difficult a puzzle.

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  71. If no one at all here can come up with a non snarky blessing, I will ask you to provide me with suggestions for reasons I can use to convince my granddaughter (who is lamentably sliding toward childish religious belief) not to become a believer.

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  72. So excited — I was rooting for the border collie, but it looks like the Old English Sheepdog (probably always my 2nd choice in the herding group) won Westminster’s group title tonight. 🙂

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  74. As a chicken protector, no one should throw rotton eggs at anyone of any belief system. As an atheist, and leader (sort of) of an atheist “meetup,” I forbid my “sort of” followers to persecute, in the name of ? Well, heck, I don’t even have a name of to declare. The name of the “GREAT NOTHING.” I curse you in the name of THE GREAT VOID.

    What will we do when humanity eventually cleanses itself of religious superstition?

    This is the way the world ends . . . Well, yes, exactly. Puck puck, cluck, cluck.

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  75. Chas,

    Here’s Part III

    http://www.leithart.com/archives/000997.php

    I’m not sure if you’re Reformed in your theology, but I think maybe not. But according to a Reformed understanding of God’s sovereignty, there’s no conflict in understanding Islam as being both of demonic origin and a judgment of God. I only skimmed what you wrote because I’ve only been having short bits of time to sit down at the computer today, but I’ll reread it tomorrow.

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