Item number one:
CNN reports that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's wife wants to end marriage due to his incorrigible philandering. Seems reasonable, I suppose, except that . . .
She, Veronica Lario, is his second wife. Berlusconi first met her after seeing her perform topless in 1980. He was still married to his first wife at the time. Their first child was born in 1984. He was divorced from his first wife in 1985. They then had two more children before getting married in 1980. So now, after twenty-nine years, nineteen of them married, she wants to divorce the cheating dirtbag.
Says Mrs Skunk to Mr Skunk, “I want a divorce.”
“But why, my love?” he inquires.
“You stink,” she replies.
Item number two:
In 2007, Doug Wilson and Christopher Hitchens corresponded over the question, “Is Christianity Good For The World?” That correspondence was published in Christianity Astray Today, a book was written, and in 2008 Wilson and Hitchens took the debate on the road. Now, a forthcoming documentary, Collision, will chronicle that debate. Watching this trailer for that documentary, the following snippet from Hitchens caught my attention.
[Wilson] imposes on himself and on others an unbelievably strenuous burden of worry and guilt. If you insist on believing that you are depraved, as he would put it, rather than evolved, as I would put it, that you labor under a burden of condemnation from your birth rather than bear the stamp of your lowly origins, as Darwin puts it . . .
So . . .
Wilson’s view (and mine), i.e., that man is depraved and under condemnation, but can be instantaneously, supernaturally transformed into a new creature (2 Corinthians 5:17), possessing the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:14–16) and manifesting the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22–25), constitutes “an unbelievably strenuous burden of worry and guilt.”
It is so much better to believe that yes, we’re bad, but there is nothing we can do about it. It is just the way we have evolved, “the stamp of our lowly origins.” The best we can hope for is that the next generation will be a little more evolved.
Well, thank you Mr Hitchens. I feel so much better now, having been relieved of that odious burden.
Item number three:
You can honor your mother this Mother’s Day with a donation in her name to Planned Parenthood. Imagine sending Mom a heart-warming card like this:
I love a good irony, but my mom would kill me.
On the other side of this issue, these people do not impress me — not one bit.
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#1 || 09·05·09··19:52 || David
What I mean, of course, is that if I sent her that card, she’d kill me. See, that makes it a double-irony . . .