Lidwina was born in Holland in 1380, the daughter of a nobleman and a peasant woman. At an early age she’d already decided to join a convent and lead a holy life, which like I keep saying on this blog, wasn’t such a terrible choice when your options are a) spend all day praying or [...]
Archive for the ‘Religion’ Category
St. Lidwina of Schiedam
Posted in Obscure Saint Blogging, Religion, tagged Catholicism, maidens, martyrs, medieval saints, Roman Catholicism, saints on July 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Ark-aeology (I crack myself up)
Posted in Religion, tagged ark of the covenant, Biblical archaeology, Mt. Sinai, Noah's Ark, old testament, Ron Wyatt, Sodom and Gomorrah on May 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s old news by now (The Illitegerati: Not Breaking News), but a group of filmmakers funded by evangelists found Noah’s Ark in Turkey. Again. As everyone is reporting, these people say it’s 99.9% certain that it’s Noah’s Ark, which sounds cool and all, and even better when you realize their reasons are as follows: 1. [...]
Blessed Columba of Rieti
Posted in Obscure Saint Blogging, Religion, tagged anorexia mirabilis, Catholicism, holy anorexia, maidens, renaissance saints, saints on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Technically, Columbia of Rieti is not a saint. Technically she gets the title “Blessed,” which is one rung below sainthood on the Catholic Ladder of Holiness. The process of beatification is simultaneously quite thorough and totally haphazard, as best as I can tell, and anyway her technically non-beatified status doesn’t make her any less interesting. [...]
Judaism is Tasty
Posted in Religion, tagged jewish food, jewish holidays, judaism, matzoh ball soup, passover, purim, rosh hashanah, sukkot, yom kippur on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With the Jewish holiday season right around the corner–the fun begins tomorrow night with Rosh Hashanah– for a while I’ve been meaning to put together a list of my favorite Jewish holidays, because they’re fun, kind of exotic (unless you’re actually Jewish or something), don’t require getting up early, and most importantly, they are hella [...]
The Darwinian Heresy
Posted in Religion, tagged creationism, darwin, evolution, heresies, intelligent design on August 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This morning, drinking coffee and reading Pharyngula, I came across this: The Voyage that Shook the World: Trailer The Voyage that Shook the World: Darwin as a Boy (Embedding has failed me. Sorry.) Which is the trailer for a creationist movie neatly reviewed by the Lippard Blog. Obviously I would like to see this movie, [...]
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 [...]
