those guys are out enjoying the sea, a trip i wish i could be on. too bad i can't take any vacation yet... if only they went over something like thanksgiving...
anyway... some funny stuff out there in the news world i'd like to share. In England, "Garden gnomes banned from church cemetery because they are 'unnatural creatures.' " Which is a great headline. they also banned teddy bears. here's the site... link this if you can anyone...
'unnatural creatures'
i love the reasoning here. they skipped the obvious reason you wouldn't allow them in a cemetary... they are creepy, and remind allison of me. you'd think that would be a sure fire winner. instead, they banned them because they are unnatural... which is ironic, considering the multitude of unnatural biblical creatures floating about in sacred texts. someone should put up a leviathan statute... and i'm not talking thomas hobbes. but that might be pretty cool.
also, on the whole unmarried people and adoption thing... Arkansas adopted by proposition a new law that prevents straight and gay unmarried couples from adopting. this is sort of amusing for several reasons. first, the state has a backlog of kids needing homes. they have something like 3 times the number of kids needing homes as they do available families as it is, without restricting people who choose or are not able to marry from adopting. hey, better to have kids have the kids move around in foster homes than risk them being liberal or gay. or worse yet, an atheist libertarian... people really need to sit and think this stuff through.
i'm not a big fan of all this intervention and moral clarity. as a skeptic and atheist, i think that calls of moral clarity and meaning should be examined extraordinarily carefully because of the implications these claims carry. maybe we should examine why we believe what we believe a lot more carefully. there are too many questions we are not brave enough to ask.
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my school of thought is believe nothing, accept anything, don't ask questions. has worked out well for me so far...although my gf tells me we have to give our kids (if we have them, of course) the right to grow up with a choice of religion. meaning i will have to sit through church until my kids are old enough to figure out how pointless it is. wonderful, all that means is I can't sleep in on Sundays...can't argue with women though, I have tried and lost far too often...
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