Around The Blogosphere

Posting has been light of late, a combination of nice weather, open roads, and a tennis elbow flareup – here’s a few gems from other blogs worth having a look at.

From Irregular Times Diaries

1585 days into the war

U.S. MILITARY DEATHS IN IRAQ: 3651
U.S. MILITARY WOUNDED IN IRAQ: 26953

IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS
(MINIMUM): 68009
(MAXIMUM): 74403
(LANCET ESTIMATE) 600,000

COST OF THE WAR SO FAR (ROUNDED TO THE NEAREST MILLION): $447,906,000,000

Please note that the above figures, from the IBC website, are NOT estimates of total Iraqi civilians killed as a result of the US invasion and its aftermath. Rather, they are a count of Western-reported verifiable violent deaths, and likely to be a small percentage of the true figure. Les Roberts, author of the Lancet Report, believes the actual number may now be as high as 1,000,000.

The numeric value of the success The Decider likes to talk about.

This one from Escaped Mentalpatient just plain made me laugh, you have to follow the link ’cause I’m not gonna spoil it by reposting the picture.

A friend of mine asked me what would be the best argument against the Christian faith, i thought about this for a while. I mean what do you chose when the selection to choose from is almost infinite. After all just the Christian posters to my blog gives me loads of sad examples to choose from.

I thought about using the crusades, or the klaptokratic dictatorial rule over Europe and the rest of the world or maybe i schould point to the inquisition? or perhaps burning people alive at the stake for imaginary thought crimes etc etc etc etc, the historical palette offers boundless choice on this subject.

I dismissed these as examples due to the fact that not everyone can relate to historic suffering, even though its suffering and abuse on a monumental scale.

No i decided to restrict my choice to current affairs, not that that really narrowed the choice down much. I mean with female sexual mutilation, child molesting priests, tv evangelists begging for money, etc, etc, etc, etc. The current palette, just like the historical, offers a baffling array of almost boundless choice of examples of Christian, abuse, opression, corruption, moral deprivation ,violence, injustice, stupidity, etc,etc,etc the list just goes on and on and on.

After considerable consideration i decided to use the following as the ultimate example against the Christian faith.

Darned good point