I too have been to a Ministry show.
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How else can you be secure in your (non)-religious beliefs if you arenāt desperately pushing them in everyone elseās faces in the public sphere the way the terrible people you disagree with do? How will the other people you disagree with know exactly how much more right and better you are than them? How else can you share the Good News and save them?
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Yeah, I saw that episode of Top Gear. It was, um, a bit harrowing. The fact that the Gear guys are Brits only made things worse for them.
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Scariest mosh pit ever. ::shudders::
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You have my sympathy
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Yeah, I was mostly making a joke. I think thatās how he identified, although (from what I know of the Xian bible) he seemed to have no love of the leaders of the Jewish community or of the Romans.
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Celebrating general humanism, rather than a celebration of a particular community, maybe?
Sounds like the work of those dastardly Unitarians again
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Pop-ups work well in big cities like SF and NYC, but the frontline battle against religious intolerance and crappy footwear
Who knew that these two things were part of the same battle?
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I saw them at the Warfield in SF many moons ago. They left the intro loop for āburning insideā running for a good 10 minutes before coming on stage. When they all filtered in and started playing the pit pressed forward, more of a crush than a mosh. Dude in front of me was wearing a leather jacket with flat metal links on it. It felt like I was being pressed into a storm drain. I made the decision that the only way out was up, and climbed up his back and dove backwards. (Totally off topic, but one of those memories from my youth I wonāt forget.)
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Not unless āchastityā is being used as a euphemism for āabstinence educationā (i.e. ironically), i.e. āuneducated promiscuity belt.ā
Unpossible. The area was known as Judea. See also Josephus on the subject.
In fact even the Arabs didnāt call that land by that name until the British Mandate period.
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Everybody knows the best auto events are demolition derbies.
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Anyone who doesnāt know that has a demolition derby sized hole in their heart that needs filling.
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The joke would work equally well to say he would identify as an Israeli as well. Both are modern national identities, not how this area would have been understood as part of the Roman empire. As you said, Judean is the correct term and Iām not disagreeing on that point.
There are maps from the 19th century calling the area Palestine - but it seems to be a European understanding of the region (as they were looking to break up the Ottoman Empire), not how the people who lived there understood it (ie Ottoman subjects/citizens):
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/1853_Mitchell_Map_of_Palestine,Israel_and_the_Holy_Land-Geographicus-_Palestine-mitchell-1850.jpg
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Banger racing with caravans?
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Iāve never seen that before, but given ācheese rollingā, Iām not a bit surprised. ETA: Would go see.
Now, now. Those truly in the know will tell you that the Train Races are the way to go. Bolt & chain three cars together. Big olā V8 sedan up front, two smaller cars with no engines following behind. Thereās a driver in the front car, and a ābrakemanā in the rear. Thatās a train. Put half a dozen trains on the track. And they race in a figure eight. After a couple of laps, things get pretty hair-raising as they approach the intersection from opposing directionsā¦
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Now THAT is something!
Still, there something about the final heat of a demo, when the unkillable products of American engineering are grinding it outā¦
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I really miss Cajon Speedway. 
And I think Irwindale held its last train race last fall.
If you can see one of these, leap at the opportunity!
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