Bible Version Selection Tool – Which bible version is best for you? Find out. (HT: Henry’s Web – note that Henry has also published a book on English Bible Translations entitled What’s in a Version?)- Test your religious literacy – I got a 92 (pride showing). I missed 4 of the 7 Catholic sacraments. Others I knew.
- Learn About Other Faiths? Yes. Mandatory? NO! – Susan Thistlethwaite argues that being ignorant of world religions is to be ignorant of culture and history.
- Woman sues over unsuccessful abortion – the baby lived, and the woman is suing for child-rearing costs (if that includes college, she should get a nice settlement!). I’m sure the kid will love her for her devotion, if he makes it out of childhood. In a strange twist, her last name is Raper.
- Woman awakes from coma – amazingly, this woman awoke from her 6 years in a coma, did a news interview, then went back into a coma. Cyclical awakening seems to be more prevalent than previously thought. Wow.
Tags: BooksHealthPro-LifeTheology
You're not mentioning that coma thing because of Terri Schiavo, are you? Because she wasn't going to wake up. Her brain was complete mush. She was dead. She was dead before she died. And do we really have to do this again?
Sort of. I actually didn't follow the Schiavo case very closely, as Aaron did, but I bring it up because I'm not sure that ever refined the law around such cases since the Schiavo case.
Conservatives are worried about the de-valuing of life in our culture, and see this devalutation across the spectrum of human life, from the unborn (abortion) to the retarded (90% of Down's babies aborted) to the retarded and comatose, to assisted-suicide (mostly of the terminal and seniors, which could lead to involuntary termination of such).
Cases such as this one are brought up to remind us that people in comas do come back, and that perhaps we should value such lives and not be too quick to write them off.
…assisted-suicide (mostly of the terminal and seniors, which could lead to involuntary termination of such).
Logan's Run anyone?
In response to the test your religious literacy, here is another fun quiz.
Are you StoOpid?
My score was…
92% scored higher (more stupid),
2% scored the same, and
6% scored lower (less stupid).
You are 6% stupid. This means…
You are our next Einstein. Wow! Keep up the great thinking.
I swear, I got this on my first try without cheating.
I guess I just 0wnz0r3d you, Cineaste ;) First try for me, too. I wonder which one I got wrong…
Perspicacious! Seriously, though: What kind of person would know what that word means?
Stewart, I read the questions more carefully and it's so easy to see which ones I got wrong! I feel Sto0pid! I knew what perspicacious meant though eheh!