i go down this and break my legs landing in the shitty little pool with the acceleration from that twenty foot straight section and the people audience clap their fuckin asses off
If you plan to pray and a nagging voice in your head says, “Don’t bother, you aren’t good/holy/sinless enough to pray” you punch the heck outta that voice and pray anyway because Satan is a weak hoe and you should be praying the most when you are at your lowest point.
“Satan is a weak hoe” should be embroidered on throw pillows
I’m not going to claim intelligence for myself, rather, here is a list of Christians:
Isaac Newton
Alexander Pope
Galileo
Mary Seacole
Florence Nightingale
Descartes
Edward Gibbon
Hildegard of Bingen
Francis Bacon
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Joseph Priestley
Mary Anning
John Locke
Michael Farraday
Charles Babbage
Georges Lemaitre
Kathleen Lonsdale
Theodosius Dobzhansky
C S Lewis
Tolkien
Soren Kierkegaard
Leo Tolstoy
Francis Collins
Alister McGrath
Mary Higby Schweitzer
Eamon Duffy
Who were/are pretty intelligent and contributed something to the world. There are plenty more to list and learn about it. They aren’t just scientists, but philosophers, historians, writers, and reformers. These are all people who had belief in Christ and culture and science. Faith in Jesus does not mean being unintelligent nor does it prevent an interest in science.
God bless
And some additional intelligent Christians:
Lise Meitner (she was born Jewish but converted to Lutheranism)
Caroline Herschel
Joseph Banks
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Johann Sebastian Bach
Franz Schubert
Charlotte Brontë
Gregor Mendel
Maria Mitchell
Blaise Pascal
Gottfried Leibniz
Robert Boyle
Georg Friedrich Händel
Johannes Kepler
Antoine Lavoisier
Alessandro Volta
Phillis Wheatley
Werner Heisenberg
Louis Pasteur
Jaroslav Durych
Max Planck
Rosalind Picard
Sir Robert Boyd
Mother Noella Marcellino
Pretty Yende
Not only does faith not prevent an interest in science, but sometimes it actively encourages it. To quote Galileo: ‘I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect would have us forego them.’ A love of God can make people motivated to discover the secrets of what He has provided for us.
And this doesn’t just pertain to Christians either. The Islamic Golden Age isn’t called that for nothing. At the same time as the emergence of Islam there was a great boom of scholarly achievement in the Muslim world, encouraged by Quranic doctrines.
Nice try, Anon, but you don’t need to be an atheist to have a brain.
I also have to add:
Olivier Messiaen Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Maurice Durufle (probably) John Lennox Alvin Plantinga John Polkinghorne Georges Lemaitre (yes, the Big Bang guy) Fyodor Dostoyevsky William Lane Craig Rembrandt van Rhijn Jan Vermeer
This belief that religion (any religion, not just Christianity) is irrational, unable to be intellectual, and just pretty damn stupid is something I encounter a lot in academia. Many people are surprised to hear that I’m a Christian as well as an academic archaeologist, as if the two are opppsed or irreconcilable. I don’t know if this is only a UK based experience or something other believers in Christ live with and through. Again, I don’t claim intelligence or wisdom, especially in respects to the people listed above, but having faith or a religious belief does not automatically mean a person is devoid of reason, logic, and intelligence (of course, such things are historical products and cultural constructs and we must be aware of the continuing impact of enlightenment etc thought).
Ya’ll
Gregor Mendel was a monk, and the father of modern genetics
A priest theorized the Big Bang
A catholic nun was the first woman to get a degree in computer sciences
Ya’ll need to stop with this “Religious people can’t be intelligent”
Dough proofing in the oven, 90mins is enough time to watch a cheesy movie. I’m thinking an Godzilla.
Hey Gallus, since i feel like I’m late to the show, how big of a Bread Jesus are you making this unholy Easter-April Fool’s ?
…I’ll know when I take the dough out of the oven in an hour? I’ve never made Challah before and I’m not sure how much this will rise. But I have a slightly-smaller-than-average sized oven, so it’ll have to fit on a cookie sheet. Hence, Baby Bread Jesus.
Update: he’s beautiful. Also, I’ve made a serious tactical error in that I don’t know how I’m getting him on to the baking sheet.
Do you have something flat without raised edges? Put flour on it and carefully lift Baby Bread Jesus bit by bit up and slide the flat item underneath. Then you can just transfer him onto the baking sheet.
I got him on via the silicone baking sheet, and he’s in for the second coming proofing and already beginning to distort into a monstrosity. I love him.
That sounds awesome.
While he’s proofing, do you mind telling us, how you got the different colours of the dough? Different dough? Food colouring?
Is he filled with jelly?
The light color is regular Challah Dough, the darker color is the same but with a bit of molasses and cinnamon. I’ve done it before for other sweet doughs where I wanted a color change.
He’s not filled with Jelly becuase
1. I’m renting and don’t want to lose my damage deposit becuase there’s smuckers on the ceiling.
2. I try not to keep grape products in the house in general (the juice is a noted passover exception) because Mr. Charleston Chew thinks all things grape-related are delicious and Grapes are very, very toxic to dogs and I don’t want to have to put him in hospital for 3 days to pump his kidneys again.
Well, there’s definitely enough of him to go around?
HE HAS RISEN
SIGNIFICANTLY MORE THAN ANTICIPATED.
smells hella good tho. Candy googly eyes were a good choice too, I think.
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