@Jiminy: I can't stand Switchfoot. It's very whiny.

I think the main problem with Christian rock groups is that they don't realize they are supposed to be professional musicians- they think of themselves as missionaries who happen to play music. And then, when they realize some people inexplicably like their crappy, underdeveloped music, they sign with a bigger…

Ugh
This is possibly the most maudlin thing I've seen in a very, very long time. "All in all, God- it was a very good day." If Barfman happens to be around…

I never fully got the nautical terms either, but I always thought of Stephen's inability to learn as a device to help out the reader. If everyone on board knew how everything worked, there would be no way for the author to work in an explanation.

Yeah, that chapter was pretty much what I was thinking of. It also made me not want to read those books, ever again. That's pretty thematically dark for a children's book.

See my vest, made of real gorilla chest.

True enough, but I figure most people who believe in the Incarnation believe in the statement "No one comes to the Father except through me." I was actually fairly disturbed the last time I read those books- I'm pretty sure that Pullman has the Church symbolically castrate children. Although, I don't know enough…

That last one should be prefaced with an "@Chimp."

First of all, I've read them. That's not what I was saying (it was actually more of an observation about the typical AV Clubber). Second, a failure to be "humanist" does not make something less philosophical. Humanism is a specific philosophy, not the sum total. And lastly, the "core principles" of Christianity…

With Regards
To the Bible, shouldn't we make some distinctions here? The Bible is composed of over sixty separate books, and probably fifteen of them at most have been adapted. The lives of the prophets could make for some interesting cinema: you have social and political corruption, miracles, wars, and Isaiah gets…

Um, Chimp? Are you really going to say that neither Tolkien nor Lewis had a philosophy behind their works? You do realize that (even if you disbelieve or hate it) Christianity qualifies as a worldview, yes?

Why's everybody saying Di- Oh, I get it!

It goes ding when there's stuff.

"Sci-Fi Writer Attributes Everything Mysterious to 'Quantum Flux'"

*Slow clap*

Find this dog. I want to make him my executive vice president.

Yeah, I'm not gonna bother reading whatever (presumably) ironic rant that was, but I think it's worth pointing out that the Spanish Inquisition was run by the monarchs of Spain, not by the central church authority, as was typical of other inquisition courts.

Eh, "Hey Leonardo." I'm dumb and apparently too lazy to double check before writing something.

I Am Young Enough
That "Dear Leonardo" was actually part of my childhood. I was about seven years old, I think, and I remember hearing that stupid thing constantly. It's strange for me to think that that song was released at the same time as Black Star, which remains one of my favorite albums. Damn, that's weird.

Wouldn't a Machiavelli game just be a politics sim? Or would you add RTS or assassination elements?