My weirdly intense-yet-atheistic interest in religion can pretty much be traced to growing up in a very Christian place while not having a religious family at all. I’m sort of like that kid you know who’s never left Wisconsin but is really inexplicably into Japanese culture, except there are no swords hanging on my wall. [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Ezekiel 4:9 bread
Posted in Miscellany, Religion, tagged bread, Ezekiel, food, old testament, prophets, sandwiches on July 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Or, cooking with the Illegiterati! This stuff was in the bread aisle when I went to Whole Foods today to pick up approximately one gallon of my favorite peanut butter: Since I’m like a moth to the flame of anything random with a bible quote on it, I bought it, brought it home, re-read Ezekiel [...]
St. Irene of Athens
Posted in Obscure Saint Blogging, Religion, Uncategorized, tagged antiquity, byzantine empire, debunked saints, Eastern Orthodoxy, saints, women emperors on July 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I owe this episode of Obscure Saint Blogging to Twelve Byzantine Rulers, a podcast I’ve been listening to on my runs lately and enjoying the crap out of. As a half-assed classicist, my understanding of Roman history goes something like: lots of detail, names and dates up through about 69 CE; something about Trajan and [...]
This Was Your Life
Posted in Religion, tagged chick tracts, christianity, Fundamentalism, heaven, jack t., jack t. chick, Jesus, salvation, sin on July 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This Was Your Life is a pretty standard Chick tract, but also the most popular worldwide. It’s been translated into over 100 languages, and not just the text–other translations are actually illustrated differently as well, so presumably you can relate no matter your skin color (as long as you’re a dude). A really fun game [...]
Exciting new Illegiterate content! Same Illegiterate place.
Posted in Religion, tagged chick tracts, end times, independent baptists, jack t. chick, religious pamphlets, weird collections, witnessing on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s finally time for me start something that was supposed to be a main attraction when we started the blog: religious tract reviews. You know all those folded sheet of paper with a cross on the front that you kinda step over on your way to the corner mart for your morning Sin Coffee? I [...]
