Perhaps more in a spirit of Fasching than Halloween or piracy, but in some spirit or other, we gathered a few like-minded types for drinks and potluck this week. Here's the executive staff of DSMDB, showing off their finery in the corporate kitchen.
This year is the 40th anniversary of the death of Ernesto Guevara, better known as "Che." Back in in 1999, the old Wood-Charles News Service had this to report about religion and Che.
THE ONGOING WONDER OF IT ALL
"Ann Arbor: Some evangelistic group in the UK gets advertising people to donate their time, striving to promote Christianity to -- well, to somebody. This week, The Independent is reporting that the group's latest ad is supposed to make the point that Jesus was not a wimp. Not kidding a bit. They don't want him to be thought of as some kind of easy-going, turn the other cheek, martyr. Nope, he was a real bad ass, and so they're running a poster of Che Guevara in a crown of thorns, over a kind of val-speak headline.
Traditional Church figures are not amused, and one of 'em is calling for excommunication. The group itself admits to being a bit concerned that people will see the poster, go to their local C of E service, and be turned off to discover that the service isn't conducted in camo vestments. Nobody, however, has explained just exactly what audience this is supposed to reach. "
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