• “ If our eschatology … assumes that Jesus is going to come back and forcibly crush his enemies under his feet, then excuse me, but we have a major problem. Why would a Jesus whose very essence is always and only non-violent enemy-love come back to force his enemies into subjection?”
• Today is February 27. Raymond Allen was unarmed when killed by police on February 27, 2012.
• Let him who is without sin cast the first apple: Wheaton College is a Christian liberal arts college. Yet it produces students and graduates who are capable of writing “Dear Enemy” letters pompously signed “Not Ashamed of the Truth” without a trace of irony or self-awareness. Such faux-pious gasbaggery doesn’t seem compatible with either Christianity or a liberal arts education.
In the future, when I occasionally use the term “apple-tossers” to refer to self-righteous indignation-addicts who treat faith as a LARP fantasy game they’ve forgotten they’re playing, it will be because of this story.
• “You might make sport of their meatballs, but in the end the Swedes get the better of you.”
• D-list celebrity and professional apple-tosser Jessa Duggar says that if the God you worship isn’t a petty, vindictive jerk, then you’re worshipping a non-existent false God.
“God isn’t slacking to fulfill His promised Judgement on sin — it’s coming,” Duggar wrote. “The only reason you’re are alive right now is because He is merciful and has kept your heart beating for another day. Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn. …” (That last bit is a paraphrase, but that’s the gist of her message.)
• “Anyone unfamiliar with the term is free to look it up, but you probably shouldn’t.”
• ASAP Science is on the ball with a quick, handy explainer of why a terribly photographed blue and black dress can appear white and gold:
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