Boy there's just no winning with this God. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Brian Of Nazareth: "There's no pleasing some people."

Ex-leper: "That's just what Jesus said, sir."

Oh, were you confirmed Catholic, Fred, or in another tradition?

Missouri Synod Lutheran, Cindy. It was a long, long time before I learned that there was a liberal tradition in Lutheranism.

Do you mean, like, actively thinking about God? Even when asleep? You dream of a llama on a pogo stick instead of God and you go to hell?

I don't remember the class going into that. It was more of a "everybody breaks the 1st" lesson.

Lucky UPS guy.

shrift worships porn. All hail the porn.

btw, shrift, how're you set for T.Rex? Do you have More Than Enough, or room for a few Lesser Known Gems ("Jewel", "Buick Mackane" "Baby Strange") in your glam mix?

I'm sorry my friends who have faith, but once again, I'm getting a top note of Religion = Freaky. But with a metallic aftertaste of Geek.

Putin's soul is in the news to distract from tapes of Bush talking about smoking the Weed

I heard the weed-smoking clip on the Daily Show last night. Um, at least he's honest about it, I guess.

Isn't the first commandment different from catholic to Protestants to jews? I know there's some wonkiness in there, somewhere.

This wasn't an ad for a fictional program, I take it?

Sadly no. But it was also a local news thing, so grain of salt it.

I'm watching the end of Season 6 of SatC. Mikhail Baryshnikov. ROWR. Doubleplusgood ROWR. And, a short man. What is coming over me?

I want to make a Rapture List of people who are kicked off my rapture list. The rapture website people would be on that list.

Isn't the first commandment different from catholic to Protestants to jews? I know there's some wonkiness in there, somewhere.

I think they divvy them up differently, in terms of where the number breaks come.

I should know this but I don't: Are the "10 Commandments" ever referred to as such in the Old or New Testaments?

I should know this but I don't: Are the "10 Commandments" ever referred to as such in the Old or New Testaments?

I think it started as The Ten Suggestions.

Thanks to biblegateway.com:

Exodus 34:28 (New International Version)
28 Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant-the Ten Commandments.

It's different in Judaism. The first commandment is "I am the lord your god who brought you out of the land of Egypt" (i'm a little unclear in what way that's a commandment) and the ones about coveting property and wives are just one. I believe they appear twice in Exodus (guessing on the book, but it's an informed guess) in slightly different forms. We had a whole class on this in Intro to Judaism.

This is freaky. They just found the camera of a couple who were killed by the tsunami. There are a bunch of pictures of the wave approaching and hitting the shore. [link]

eta: Go to the "gallery" near the bottom of the page to see the pictures.