And not the end of it either. But I may be mostly caught up with processing zoo pictures before the next trip there (next weekend).
There’s now a gallery (click on the picture).
Wet Weasels!
Archive for October, 2008
I was on a zoo expedition last weekend, and I’m finally getting enough time to look at the photos and determine that I did, in fact, have fun. More to follow.
Wet snow monkey
Just to tag when I did it.
Looks like we probably had fun.
Careful, this is really a large panorama!
Lake Pepin, from Frontenac State Park
From a photo trip with Ctein and Timprov.
On the national stage we have seen pundits saying that atheists shouldn’t be able to hold public office. What would their reaction be if I suggested that those who believed in gods shouldn’t be able to hold public office?
People get thrown out of their apartments, lose their jobs, get assaulted on the street, and occasionally are dragged to death behind pickup trucks for being gay. That doesn’t happen to people for being Christian.
Doctors get murdered for performing abortions. That doesn’t happen to people for being Christian.
Never mind lesser impositions, like being unable to marry, or even having ballot initiatives to invalidate marriages already performed.
But the people spreading this torrent of hate and violence claim they are Christians, and that it is Christian principles that cause them to perform their despicable actions, and that anybody who isn’t with them is going to hell; I guess as soon as they can get around to sending us. This is what “Christian” means today in US politics, and to a large extent in general discourse, because these are the Christians that we hear from.
And I’m finding myself less and less interested in spending effort to make fine distinctions among sects of a belief system that I’ve never believed. Anybody out there who doesn’t this to be the legacy of Christianity, get out there and change it yourself!