The real cause of swine flu (paraphrased):

“Swine flu is God’s judgment on the world for eating pork. But when I try to tell people this, they say I’m not being scientific. I love science! I’m a scientist! How come people who believe in God are never taken seriously??”

Sadly(?), I no longer have the original link.
 

There are some days
when no matter what I say
it feels like
I’m far away in another country
& whoever is doing the translating
has had far too much to drink

- Brian Andreas

I just noticed something. There are the fundamentalist Christians who are opposed to evolution in general and, often, science in particular; then there are the people who think that the modern world, with all its teghnology, gets in the way of spirituality, and that the only way to truly live spiritually is to give up technology and live in harmony with nature. I knew both of these perspectives existed, of course; it just never occurred to me before now how parallel they were. Why is the divide between spirituality and technology such a persistent idea? I don't understand why there needs to be a divide in the first place.