A quote from the Bishop of Oxford, when talking about the oddness of the (almost exclusively American) anti-evolution movement:

God doesn’t just make the world, he does something much more wonderful. He makes the world make itself.

I don’t think I’ve ever hear anyone put quite such an elegant theological touch to this largely inelegant “debate”.   Here is the video; it’s worth watching.

My first school, Virginia Tech had the worst mass-shooting at a college in American history this morning.   Obviously everyone I knew as a student there has moved on, but it’s still a horrible feeling.   I remember staying in the dorm of the first shooting during my freshman orientation, and had more than few classes in Norris, and it’s just impossible to imagine someone hating the people or the place strong enough to do something like this.   Tech is a fantastic school with a wonderful student body and and absolutely beautiful campus.   Why some people feel the need to destroy the good in this world, when there is already so much evil, I’ll never understand.

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Please, if you know crazy, hateful people, get them help.   Tell them they’re wrong for blaming others for their problems, and that hurting random strangers isn’t going to bring them the peace, serenity and sense of purpose they desire.   Tell them if they don’t like their life, they should work to change it.   Tell them that regardless of circumstances, they and they alone are responsible for the acts they commit in this world.   And above all else, tell them that if they do punish others for their own inadequacies, they don’t deserve an end as simple as death.

Derek Anderson

P.S. This has to be one of the most retarded, narcissistic collections of rants I have ever heard.

And it’s hard to know who to trust.