And read this list, too. It’s a list of topics to avoid if you’re interested in not being boring:
1. A dream.
2. The recent changes in your child’s nap schedule.
3. The route you took to get here.
4. An excellent meal you once had at a restaurant.
5. The latest additions to your wine cellar.
6. An account your last golf game.
7. The plot of a movie, play, or movie—in particular, the funny parts.
Yes, you. Pay attention to this stuff. The people who have to listen to you will thank you.
It makes me sick to see people hiding behind things like religion to rationalize and legitimize their feelings of hate and fear.
Yesterday, Andrew Sullivan put up a post about an extremely brutal hate-crime attack on an openly gay man. The 2-minute news report he embeds is depressing, but there was something to laugh about at the end. The studio interviewed one of the attackers’ friends, who proudly displayed this tattoo:
It’s a tattoo reading “[Thou] shall not lie with a male as one does with a woman. It is an abomination. Leviticus 18:22″. Who else sees the problem here?
Leviticus also forbids tattooing. In the very next chapter.
“Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD. Leviticus 19:28″
If logic played into these sorts of disagreements, pointing out glaring inconsistencies like this one, should undercut just about every bible-based argument against homosexuals.
But it won’t. And it’s not just the wacky religious who fall prey to cherrypicking. It seems to be human nature to only hear what you want to hear.
Just one scant month after switching from Quicken to Mint for my financial management, the poopheads sell to Intuit (the largly loathed makers of Quicken).
