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lamb is the traditional choice for easter dinner, and i’m all about tradition (despite the whole atheism thing).  mostly because i happen to love lamb.  also, perse balked at my suggestion of serving rabbit, stuffed with hard-boiled eggs.  when you think about it though, why is lamb traditional?  well, jesus was the lamb of god, so naturally when celebrating the merging of his ressurection with that of pagan fertility rites and various other spring ressurection myths, it makes sense to symbolically eat jesus.  because, as with the whole communion thing, christianity is all about cannibalism.Â

perse sent me this link, after she was abushed/interviewed on the subject outside of starbucks this morning, by a local man-or-woman-on-the-street reporter. apparently, the vatican has issued a document containing the 10 commandments of driving. i wonder if it will be adopted by the “what would jesus drive” folks?

anyway, my favorite is commandment #2: “The road shall be for you a means of communion between people and not of mortal harm.” most excellent. it’s no longer just a way to get from point a to point b (hell, trains can do that!). now it’s damn near a sacrament.

for those of us curious about what mysteries lie hid deep within the creation museum, but just not curious enough to actually bother going to it…behold! there is an answer. yes, a kindly young couple (with nifty cool t-shirts) went undercover for us, and present for all a photo-journalistic journey through the creation museum.

i find myself oddly disturbed, saddened and fascinated at the twisting attempts to turn evidence for evolutionary and plate tectonic theories into support for young earth creationism. and yet, they still can’t seem to escape observations such as this.

part of me wants to applaud their faith, yet i cannot. because it is a false faith. yes, i know faith is believing something to be true when you have no proof that it is. however, that does not equate to believing something to be true when it has been conclusively demonstrated to be false. to maintain such unwavering belief in falsehoods demeans what faith should truly be.