I finally was able to skate through Christmas without attending a religious service. In a family full of Christians, it’s pretty tough to not get roped into a evening service or a choral presentation or some other faith-based celebration. Because of a scheduling fluke, my wife and I were able to bow out gracefully and head home to prepare dinner.
It’s been an interesting year for me… Next year I want to open up more via this blog. Seems the best blogs to me are the ones where people reveal a little about themselves and their life experience. I like several “link puke” blogs, but I really like the ones where people have something to say or something to share that I might learn something from their point of view, or at least be entertained!
Many things that took place in my life this year will allow me to open up more next year, to my readers, and to my family. I hope you have a happy, healthy, prosperous next year, and if you care one way or the other, please let me know. I promise to be interesting, if you promise to tell me when I suck. All the best… Hugh.
But not without creating some serious confusion among humans already present on Earth:
Members of the earth’s earliest known civilization, the Sumerians, looked on in shock and confusion some 6,000 years ago as God, the Lord Almighty, created Heaven and Earth.
According to recently excavated clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script, thousands of Sumerians—the first humans to establish systems of writing, agriculture, and government—were working on their sophisticated irrigation systems when the Father of All Creation reached down from the ether and blew the divine spirit of life into their thriving civilization.
“I do not understand,” reads an ancient line of pictographs depicting the sun, the moon, water, and a Sumerian who appears to be scratching his head. “A booming voice is saying, ‘Let there be light,’ but there is already light. It is saying, ‘Let the earth bring forth grass,’ but I am already standing on grass.”
“Everything is here already,” the pictograph continues. “We do not need more stars.”
Evangelist Oral Roberts dies at age 91
Evangelist Oral Roberts, who rose from tent revivals to found a multimillion-dollar organization and an Oklahoma university bearing his name, has died. He was 91.
Love the comments on this video. Too funny. Click the YouTube logo to watch it over there (and read the comments).
Sensible night, appropriate night
Snow on ground, left and right
Round yon purchase of decorative things
Tolerant rewrite of carols to sing
Function with relative ease,
Function with relative ease.
That was the lovely rendition of this traditional Christmas hymn rewritten for the masses. Shirley actually has a beautiful voice, but it was more hilarious than moving. I like this show because it’s clever and Joel McHale is funny as Jeff Winger (also see “The Soup“). Best of all, the show acknowledges every week that the world is made up of many different types of people, and this week, many different religious philosophies including “none” (Comparative Religion on Hulu).
Turns out, Shirley is a Christian (WWBJD – What would Baby Jesus Do?), Jeff is agnostic, Britta is an atheist, Troy is a Jehovah’s Witness, Abed is Muslim, and Annie’s a Jew. Oh, and Pierce is part of some dope smoking cult with Buddha bongs. And don’t forget about non-denominational Mr. Winter! They do a really nice riff off of each characters’ beliefs while skewering religion in general and essentially highlighting what little sense it makes. Funny aside from Shirley when she noted that Britta brought something to the party that represented what she believes in… nothing.
Check it out. Worth your time and good for a few laughs.
Cast:
Yvette Nicole Brown as Shirley
Danny Pudi as Abed
Gillian Jacobs as Britta
Joel McHale as Jeff
Alison Brie as Annie
Chevy Chase as Pierce
Donald Glover as Troy
