I can't even follow what Jehle is saying in that quote.

Another blogger said this:

Every august, James Kennedy - a thoroughly repulsive ultra-fundy preacher from Coral Ridge Ministries - runs a conference called "Reclaiming America for Christ". At this years conference, he featured a speech by Paul Jehle about "Evaluating your Philosophy of Education".

Jehle is... umm... how do we say this politely?....

Ah, screw it. Jehle is a fucking frothing at the mouth nutjob lunatic asshole.

His basic argument - the argument that he expects people to take seriously - is that everything is either christian or non-christian. And if it's non-christian, then christians shouldn't look at it, listen to it, or study it. And you can't ever make anything that started out non-christian christian.

then after his quote of Jehle (that I quoted in my previous post):

Yeah. Seriously. Math is Bad, because it's not explicitly christian. I mean, it uses zero, which was invented by a hindu, and brought to europe by muslims. Algebra was invented by muslims! The word "algorithm" comes from the name of a muslim mathematician!

Uh-oh... I just realized that the alleged "Doctor" Jehle has a very serious problem. The way that we geeks heard his talk to write about it is because it was digitized - using a thoroughly non-christian technology - and posted on the internet, which is built using those non-christian algorithms. And to quite Jehle himself:

But the issue is you cannot combine something by its nature which is pagan and built on humanistic principles and make it Christian by a magic wand.

So the internet, and computers, and digital recording, and the data compression that makes streaming audio work - they're non-christian. And you cannot combine something non-Christian with something Christian.

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And you can't ever make anything that started out non-christian christian.

Damn. Not even, say, St. Paul?

I can't help myself:

Differentiation is an operator on functions that takes one functions and transforms it into another form. The new form is related to the old form--the derivative tells interesting information about how the original function behaves graphically--but it is a completely new function. When someone accepts Jesus as Lord of their life and gives themselves wholly to God as one of His creatures, a similar transformation occurs."

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"Once a person has been called to be a Christian, we are redeemed by Christ but not released from following the law of God. We are justified once but continue with the process of sanctification for the remainder of our lives. This sanctification process is like the limit process of the secant lines approaching the tangent line."

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So the internet, and computers, and digital recording, and the data compression that makes streaming audio work - they're non-christian. And you cannot combine something non-Christian with something Christian.

If that includes amps, electric guitars and whatnot do they have to take back Stryper?

Wait, if mathematics is non-Christian, how can he justify explaining Christianity using math as his metaphor?

If that includes amps, electric guitars and whatnot do they have to take back Stryper?

Heh.

Didn't Stryper abandon Christian rock for, um... secular rock? Or am I thinking of some other Christian band?

I only found Joyti because the articles about her arrest mention her mother by name. So weird.

Her name being Joyti couldn't have hurt.

Was St Augustine using the same definition of "mathematician" that I am?

IIRC, "mathematician" and "astrologer" were pretty much interchangeable for a (fairly long) time in Europe. Possibly St. Augustine's time, but I'm fuzzy on when that was.

Aww... sad....

MARSHALL, Texas -- A truck transporting zoo animals overturned early Tuesday, spilling about two dozen penguins, an octopus and tropical fish along a highway north of Marshall, authorities said.

"We had a penguin wreck," said Department of Public Safety Trooper Richard Buchanan. "They were thrown out into a ditch and in the roadway."

Three penguins that landed in the highway were killed by oncoming traffic and one died in the crash, authorities said. Another penguin suffered a broken wing.

The driver, Kelly Hodge, 34, and passenger Tammy Root both sustained minor scratches and bruises, police said. Root was taken to a local hospital for treatment and released, authorities said.

Most of the fish lived and the octopus appeared unharmed, officials said. The octopus and fish were traveling in plastic bags, and some fish died when the bags burst, Buchanan said.

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The penguins were traveling in heavy tubs which broke open the truck's trailer. Troopers succeeded in corralling most of the penguins in a roadside ditch, Buchanan said.

Workers from the Caldwell Zoo in nearby Tyler assisted officers in chasing down the penguins and rescuing endangered fish.

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AND eat one bite from every single donut given to my family upon my grandfather's death.

What the hell? Sophia, how do you meet these people?