Friday Random Ten: 2006-05-12


NameArtistAlbumGenre
1. Dumb All OverFrank ZappaYou Are What You IsAlternative & Punk
2. The CallingYesTalkRock
3. Day DanseChick CoreaMy Spanish HeartJazz
4. DreamscapeAlan ParsonsTry Anything OnceRock
5. Mexican RadioWall Of VoodooCall Of The WestAlternative & Punk
6. Recuerdos (Reminiscences)Stan KentonCuban Fire!Jazz
7. Warrior Horsemen Of The Spirit Thundering Over Hills Of Doubt To A Place Of HopeDavid Torn/Mick Karn/Terry BozzioPolytownRock
8. Comfortably NumbDar WilliamsMy Better SelfFolk
9. End Of The LineStan RidgwayThe Big HeatRock
10. Silk PyjamasThomas DolbyAstronauts & HereticsAlternative & Punk

Do you people have to ruin everything?

New Rule: Keep Jesus out of strip clubs. A former dancer from Las Vegas has founded “JC’s Girls,” a ministry that brings the healing power of the Lord directly to America’s strip clubs and adult businesses. Do you people have to ruin everything? You’ve got the White House, the Congress, the Supreme Court. Can’t you leave us heathens a couple of titty bars out by the airport? The only good news a guy wants to hear in a strip club is, “Sure you can touch me there.” Or so I’ve heard.
— Bill Maher

Friday Random Ten: 2006-05-05

Name Artist Album Genre
1.  Wonderous Stories Yes Going For The One Rock
2.  That Voice Again Peter Gabriel So Rock
3.  The Ring Goes South Howard Shore The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring Soundtrack
4.  Hands Of Love Wall Of Voodoo Call Of The West Alternative & Punk
5.  Perpetual Change Yes The Yes Album Rock
6.  Sat In Your Lap Kate Bush The Whole Story Alternative & Punk
7.  Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus Frank Zappa The Grand Wazoo Alternative & Punk
8.  In Your Eyes Peter Gabriel So Rock
9.  The Return Of The King Howard Shore, Sir James Galway, Viggo Mortensen & Renée Fleming The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King Soundtrack
10.  Itaipu: IV. “To the Sea” Atlanta Symphony Orchestra And Chorus: Robert Shaw Itaipu, The Canyon Classical

Creationism is a form of superstitious paganism

(via Pharyngula)

Creationism dismissed as ‘a kind of paganism’ by Vatican’s astronomer:

BELIEVING that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism, the Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno claimed yesterday.

Brother Consolmagno, who works in a Vatican observatory in Arizona and as curator of the Vatican meteorite collection in Italy, said a “destructive myth” had developed in modern society that religion and science were competing ideologies.

He described creationism, whose supporters want it taught in schools alongside evolution, as a “kind of paganism” because it harked back to the days of “nature gods” who were responsible for natural events.

Brother Consolmagno argued that the Christian God was a supernatural one, a belief that had led the clergy in the past to become involved in science to seek natural reasons for phenomena such as thunder and lightning, which had been previously attributed to vengeful gods. “Knowledge is dangerous, but so is ignorance. That’s why science and religion need to talk to each other,” he said.

“Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which at the end of the day is a kind of paganism – it’s turning God into a nature god. And science needs religion in order to have a conscience, to know that, just because something is possible, it may not be a good thing to do.”

Pretty good, but pagans may find the Creationism dismissed as ‘a kind of paganism’ line offensive.

Here we go again…

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