I think that the New York Times must have been printed in King David’s day, or possibly a similar version called the New Jerusalem Times. Psalm 52 is what spurred this thought.
Why do you boast, O mighty man,of mischief done against the godly?All the day you are plotting destruction.Your tongue is like a sharp razor,you worker of treachery.You love evil more than good,and lying more than speaking the truth. [Selah]You love all words that devour,O deceitful tongue.…
In a bid to uncover the roots of super-sized American fare, a pair of sibling scholars has turned to an unusual source: 52 artists’ renderings of the New Testament’s Last Supper.
Their findings, published online Tuesday in the International Journal of Obesity, indicate that serving sizes have been marching heavenward for 1,000 years.
“I think people assume that increased serving sizes, or ‘portion distortion,’ is a recent phenomenon,” said Brian Wansink, director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab and author of “Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think.” “But this research indicates that it’s a general trend for at least the last millennium.”
To reach their conclusion, Wansink and his brother Craig, a biblical scholar at Virginia Wesleyan College, analyzed 52 depictions of the meal the Wansinks call “history’s most famous dinner party” painted between the year 1000 and the year 2000.
Using the size of the diners’ heads as a basis for comparison, the Wansinks used computers to compare the sizes of the plates in front of the apostles, the food servings on those plates and the bread on the table. Assuming that heads did not increase in size during the second millennium after the birth of Christ, the researchers used this method to gauge how much serving sizes increased. [reference]
The Dan Brown’s of nutrition.
Glad such important research is going on. Hopefully there was a government grant behind this. Next they will be getting out their measuring tapes to see if statues of saints have increased in girth over the years. Though Saints Anthony and Thomas Aquinas statues will throw off their results.
I’ve added some new items to my L-Mart Lenten Superstore Parody.
While the dust over beaming preachers on a video screen on multi-site campuses has somewhat settled, the new 3D tool is raising more questions and concerns among some believers.“Since so many of us in the west are convinced that entertaining pew fodder is critical to advancing ‘the gospel’ and that only a very few have the necessary gifts to preachertain – this will become the ‘perfect’ solution,” Bill Kinnon, author of A Networked Conspiracy, Social Networks, The Church & the Power of Collective Intelligence, wrote in a recent blog post.What has Kinnon and many other Christians talking is the holographic technology that music artist Madonna famously used at the Grammy Awards in 2006 and that one company wants to promote in churches…According to Morgan, pricing on the holographic technology is “coming down quickly to the point that I won’t be surprised if we see this technology implemented in churches within the next 12 months.”While the dust over beaming preachers on a video screen on multi-site campuses has somewhat settled, the new 3D tool is raising more questions and concerns among some believers.
“Since so many of us in the west are convinced that entertaining pew fodder is critical to advancing ‘the gospel’ and that only a very few have the necessary gifts to preachertain – this will become the ‘perfect’ solution,” Bill Kinnon, author of A Networked Conspiracy, Social Networks, The Church & the Power of Collective Intelligence, wrote in a recent blog post.
What has Kinnon and many other Christians talking is the holographic technology that music artist Madonna famously used at the Grammy Awards in 2006 and that one company wants to promote in churches…
According to Morgan, pricing on the holographic technology is “coming down quickly to the point that I won’t be surprised if we see this technology implemented in churches within the next 12 months.” Via Sancte Pater
Well in Protestant theology, which is largely non-Sacramental, nothing prevents this. When the service is primarily a sermon and secondarily fellowship nothing requires a pastor to be present. There is a large range of talents when it comes to preaching — so why not have the best of the best via hologram instead of maybe the lesser talent of your local church?
Sacraments are personal and require a physical presence, though a blessing is a different thing. Thankfully we will never see this:
Besides that R2D2 Hologram technology is spotty at best – probably supplied by AT&T.
Though as Jimmy Akin points out today in an unrelated post what most people think of holograms are really volumetric displays.
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Funny how tomorrow this post will elicit no reaction.
Bishop Vasa is one person I greatly admire and this little piece from him certainly increases my admiration.
The following hoaxes/myths will be exposed in 2010:
Manmade global warming
Atheistic evolution
Relativism is the only absolute
Abortion is “health care”
Nobody can do health care better than the government
A Catholic can be pro-choice
The government will take care of you
How Obama saved America
America no longer needs GodCome, Lord Jesus!
The Most Rev. Robert F. Vasa is bishop of Baker, Oregon.
A list of predictions from various Catholics at Inside Catholic,
I am a sucker for versions of “Twas the Night Before Christmas” that mention me along with a bunch of other bloggers.
One of my favorite Carols utterly destroyed. For those fasting from Christmas Carols until Christmas I am sure this does not count.