Google Exodus: How Would the Exodus Be Handled Today?

This is fun…

Google Exodus: Watch now to see what the Exodus from Egypt would have looked like if Moses had a laptop, Google Maps and Facebook

Getting Married? Have it your way, says Church of England

Just weeks before the royal wedding of Will and Kate, the Church of England has a new video on its wedding website. You can wed at a magnificent church as easy as ordering a fast food burger — your way. And you don’t even have to be Christian.

A new video on the CofE’s official wedding website, YourChurchWedding.org kicks off with a woman priest (controversial with conservative Anglicans but who’s raining on the parade) talking about how you pretty much don’t even have to be Christian. (No mention on whether you have to be male/female, however). Neither need you be British(although it means extra paperwork)

Happy customers wax poetic about how church staff were willing to help with all the arrangements right down to the car parking. Why bother with renting a hall or a garden when you can step right in to any fabulous stained-glass historic church with almost no pre-requisites (well, maybe you might have to attend church a few Sundays in advance but no biggie.)

And it’s all pretty much whatever you want including no need to promise to “obey.”

More here.

Thank the Lord for Anglicanorum Coetibus! The Church of England has clearly long gone the way of the world… Fast food Christianity.

The Governator

I heard about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s new cartoon show on the news in the car this morning… So here is the trailer:

Looks like fun!

Saudi Arabia: Where Carrying the Rosary is a Crime

Camille Eid, a professor at the University of Milan, describes the persecution Christians endure in Saudi Arabia. Eid, who has lived in Jeddah– the nation’s second-largest city– told the television program “Where God Weeps” that

it is hard to be a lay Catholic in Saudi Arabia because you have to have a very deep background in your faith. You cannot have copies of the Gospel in your home. You cannot have a rosary. You cannot have contact with your Christian friends as a community; you can have Christian friends, you can frequent the foreign communities but you are prohibited from talking about your faith … In other Islamic countries Friday is a holiday so Mass as a community [is allowed], but not on Sunday because Sunday is considered a working day; but even this is not the case in Saudi Arabia.

“We have a case of the martyrdom of a Saudi girl who converted to Christianity,” Eid adds. “Her brother discovered her. She wrote a poem to Christ and she had her tongue cut, she disappeared and was later found dead. Her name was Fatima Al-Mutairi and this happened in August of 2008. In 2008 two cases of raids by the religious police saw men, women and children less than three years old arrested. We have many reports of torture.”

What intolerance! Shocking!

The report above was in Catholic Culture here.

College Professor Arrested for Closing Student’s Laptop in Class

You lecturers out there best take care:

Professor Frank J. Rybicki teaches Mass Media at Valdosta State University. The other day, he was arrested for assaulting a student in his class and is now facing battery charges.

Did he punch the student? No.

Did he throw his chair across the room at the student? Definitely not.

Did he inappropriately get a bit too intimate with a student? Not even close.

He was arrested for shutting a student’s laptop in class. The student, the professor claims, was web-browsing on sites not related to the course, instead of taking notes. After he closed her laptop, an argument ensued between the professor and the 22-year-old girl. Then, soon after the argument, the professor dismissed class early because he was so upset.

That was Friday. The following Monday, when the students came to class, instead of being greeted by their professor, they were greeted by officers.

Inside Higher Ed has the story…

Guess it’s best not to allow laptops into class in the first place – or is that a crime too?

Expert’s Evidence for Jesus’ Crucifixion

Could these be the actual words of Jesus’ crucifixion charge sheet in the Munich Talmud?