spirit points...

ok well, here's a few things for Alissa: I smoked the hookah in my backyard, which might work in seattle if it isn't raining. Also, I too have developed a not so secret crush on Anderson Cooper...

OK for the rest of u, I thought u might find this amusing, its kind of along the lines of stuff we've been studying about evangelical christianity not having such a great rep and stuff, but really its just funny and kind of disturbing and I posted it on my other blog too. I've started actually reading the newspaper, and cutting out interesting stuff, especially pictures of the Middle East (there was this really great one of these Iraqi women today). Anyway, this is from the San Diego Union Tribune Religion and Ethics page (which actually had some cool stuff about the Hajj, which started yesterday, and other cool Islam stuff):

SOUTH OF HEAVEN

The apocalyptic video game fashioned after the best-selling "Left Behind" series of evangelical Christian end-times novels is getting heat. Critics are offended by the violence -- especially the concept that nonbelievers should be converted or killed.
"It pushes a message of religious intolerance," says Clark Stevens, co-director of the Campaign to Defend the Constitution, of "Left Behind: Eternal Forces."
But gamemakers defend their product, noting that players lose spirit points when they kill someone, and the bottom-line message is the ultimate one about good and evil.
"The violence in our game is more of a spiritual warfare kind of violence," says Robilyn Lyndon, co-founder of Left Behind Games.

So ya...disturbing huh...?