Can you guess what’s wrong with this church’s Gospel message? Their statement of purpose reads: “A Judeo-Christian Fellowship with the belief that the Ten Commandments are the moral and spiritual guide that G-D has given us. The Fellowship holds Cannabis as a sacrament, as mentioned in both the Old and New Testament, and most specifically
This morbid little piece is from the book “Stiff” by Mary Roach; the subtitle is “The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers.” It is an hilarious—and gross, morbidly fascinating read—and I highly recommend it. In this excerpt, the author talks about the strange language of the embalmer’s table: I like the term “decedent” [which is
From its first use, there has been debate as to whether the guillotine always provided as swift a death as Dr Guillotin hoped. With previous methods of execution, there was little concern about the suffering inflicted. But where the guillotine was invented specifically to be “humane,” the issue was seriously considered.
Furthermore, there is the possibility that the very swiftness of the guillotine only prolonged the victim’s suffering. The blade cuts quickly enough so that there is relatively little impact on the brain case, and perhaps less likelihood of immediate unconsciousness than with a more violent decapitation, or long-drop hanging.
Audiences to guillotinings told numerous stories of blinking eyelids, moving eyes, movement of the mouth, even an expression of “unequivocal indignation” on the face of the decapitated Charlotte Corday when her cheek was slapped.
Clown Communion
This is what happens when the Biblical Gospel is not preached. When you first view this video you will at first shake your head in disbelief, then have mixed emotions ranging from laughter, to horror, to sadness, to disgust. This is an actual clown-led Eucharist service from Trinity Church at St. Paul’s Chapel in New
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