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July 2007

Just a few or here and there?

From the German weather service, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Weather and warning situation south-east (German), today at 4 p.m. (my translation, as good as possible):

Headline:
In northern bavaria here and there, in southern bavaria only a few THUNDERSTORMS, partially with SQUALLS, HAIL and INTENSE RAIN.

Well, hopefully lightning strikes are not rare, but only seldom.

Killer Monkey now attacking Germany!

The “Killer Monkey Angel” from BadAstronomy.com was seen this morning above Germany as it was jumping down on Stuttgart with his arms raised, lusting for battle:

Rain radar image (click to enlarge)

(Image from WetterOnline.de)

:lol:

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If your prayers are not being heard…

…you might need a » Prayer Antenna! :lol:

Or it might be because there is no god. A matter of belief, of course…

(Found in this exhibition of religious technical artifacts via here and here.)

Friday the 13th

…but I’m not superstitious, because that only brings bad luck… :P :twisted:

Quote of the Day (2)

This is about Harry Potter, see “The Cross with Religion” on Spiegel Online (German):

“[Children] are quite able to tell the difference between right and wrong as well as between reality and illusion.”
Religion pedagogue and Protestant theologian Matthias Frohmann (my translation)

(And I agree with him there.)

The Churches see it (surprisingly?) rather relaxed, whereas fundamentalist “religiously motivated critics” rather see a “seduction into satanism, mockery of Christianity, playing down occultism.” Well, the former Cardinal Ratzinger is quoted to have written of “subtle seductions that have an imperceptible and especially for that reason deep effect and subvert Christian faith in the soul before it could even grow properly” in 2003 (my translation).

Well, they’re obviously afraid that the children (and adults) might use their mind also to critically and scientifically look into the “miracles” from biblical and later times and discover more about reality than fundamentalist and maybe “normal” Christians might like… :twisted: