God and Moses by Simon Rich

If you're in need of a good laugh, check out this bit of sacrilege from Simon Rich. I stumbled upon this brilliant bit when listening to a year-end podcast from 2010, which for some reason was still on one of my iPods.

The embedded audio is below.

I doubt this was intentional, but this bit uncovers our own bent towards idolatry via irony: even the Almigthy could be so taken by his own creation as to create an exception clause within the covennat made with Israel. God also speaks of things to come which Moses has no capacity to understand, as though an all-knowing and all-powerful being would not foresee that a finite, human creature might have some difficulty processing the unique talents of Prince. Christians and Jews often take Moses' receiving of divine revelation on Sinai as so commonplace as to lose the wonder. We often conceive of God as he is presented in this comedy bit--just a buddy to Moses who happens to have some particular rules, not a Being so other and beyond that his disclosure was so earth-shattering as to invoke awe, fear, worship, allegiance, and adoration. We can laugh because if the biblical accounts are to be taken at face, we know God is nothing like this. But we laugh at ourselves because we know, deep inside, that we act as though God is like this, and that his commands are to be taken lightly, because God really can't be all that serious.

Anyway, have a listen, and a laugh.

HT: Maximum Fun: Comedy: Simon Rich: God and Moses with Paul Scheer and Seth Morris

Overheard on the Bus :: #23

A middle school student, ascending the steps, speaking to a nearly full load before the afternoon run:

Everybody! Everybody! Whatever you have heard, I did not kiss a cow, okay? I DID NOT KISS A COW!

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And finally, Christianity Today posted an analysis of what people gave up for Lent in 2012, according to Twitter.

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Text:

Get a Fox premium car it is the #1 most safest car in amaraca.

Not only is it the safest.  It is the most safest.  And not only is it the most safest.  It is the #1 most safest.  Made right here in amaraca.

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Overheard on the Bus :: #19

 

A middle school conversation:

Student 1: K-State is in Missouri.
A Crowd: No it is not. Kansas State is in Kansas. 

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