Terrorist Railway Threat

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Al Qaeda targeting trains, you say? Well, that can’t be good, considering that I ride the commuter train to and from Washington DC practically every day of the week. Well, in the event of a derailment, collision, explosion, or shootout, you can be sure I’ll have my pencam on me, ready to publish photos of the action. If I come out alive, that is.

Are you in fear of disasters and cataclysm? Don’t be! “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?” Even in the face of terrorism, the believer has a Protector, a mighty fortress for body and soul.

Blogger hacked again

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Update: Okay, Blogger’s back and working again. Ignore the rest of this entry.

You Blogger-users out there, don’t log in; they just got hacked. I tried logging in to change some settings on my mobile blog, and it told me I’d entered an invalid password. When I requested a password reminder, the confirmation said my login info had been sent to “hax0redbyme.” Don’t request a password reminder!

More from Blogroots, Anil, Tom, and of course, Blogger status.

I’ve changed all my passwords already.

Sniper Stump

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The latest on the sniper case: John Allen Muhammad, John Lee Malvo and a tree stump have been arrested. The tree stump is currently being interrogated by federal agents, and has confessed to masterminding the whole affair.

Update: They were arraigned on gun charges in a federal court right here in Baltimore. No wonder I’m hearing all those helicopters.

Oh, wait. There are always helicopters.

More on Rebecca Brown

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I just received a comment to an older entry about “Dr. Rebecca Brown” and the dangers of her books on Satanism and curse theology. After my links to The Bizarre Case of Rebecca Brown, and the clear proof of her dangerous mental instabilities, the commenter says that he prefers to continue believing in her, and admonishes me to trust in Jesus.

I respond with a harrumph. Please let me reiterate that I am an evangelical Christian, saved through faith in Christ alone. However, that does not mean that I am compelled by my faith to subscribe to Rebecca Brown’s hallucinations of demons, Wiccans and Satanists. We are to prove all things and hold fast to that which is good, and in testing Rebecca Brown (by the way, her real name is Ruth Bailey), I have found her falsified paranoid religious frothing to be far from good.

Some content of her books is very much in line with Scripture: that Christians can claim the victory of Jesus over the forces of Satan, that we are to avoid the dangers of occultism and necromancy, and that rock and roll music is a deadly, poisoning evil. (Ha! Just checking to see if you were listening.) However, the more dubious attributes of her theology: admonitions to avoid “demon-god” Hawaiian floral garlands and African wall hangings; the process of “anointing” people, objects, furniture, even pets, with cooking oil to ceremonially cleanse them of demonic influence; her raving stories of demons and angels speaking to her and her patients in person; Satan’s schemes to make vegetarians more susceptible to possession by depriving them of the protein needed to fight demons; or her questionable views of the Trinity (the Father not feeling what the Son has experienced) — these are well beyond anything that the Bible gives to us as believers.

Rebecca Brown’s teachings go well beyond mere fundamentalism. I dare say she even crosses the line into the very cultism which she strains to avoid.

For more information: The Bizarre Case of Dr. Rebecca Brown, The Lies of Dr. Rebecca Brown, and The Curse of Curse Theology.

The Black, B-Movie, Darkman Hole

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I was up till 6am this morning to work on a storyboard assignment, so I kept TNT on for company.

Highlights of the night: Darkman, with Liam Neeson being so deliberately campy that I was in stitches; and The Black Hole, which I remember vividly from my childhood, owing to hours spent hand-cranking the Disney cartridge through a Fisher Price Movie Viewer. The whole film, V.I.N.C.E.N.T. droids and all, was deja vu all over again, and I think I nearly relived my entire preschool life.

(The part where Maximillian the Robot cuts up Anthony Perkins was especially poignant, considering that I had just watched Impostor the day before.)

Now I’m really, really sleepy.

Tempus Fugit in October

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Tempus Fugit. I’ve always dreamed of talking to a visitor from the 19th Century in this fashion. Why are the good time travel stories always set in October? ;)

Sniper Angst

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Okay, I know I said a few days ago that the news outfits were overreacting to this sniper business, but considering that the guy is now making serious threats, and has managed to continue the killing spree while eluding authorities till now, I’d say there’s now sufficient precedent for the media frenzy. Not to say that it’s helping public calm. Or the investigation. To see nothing but “Sniper on the Loose” on CNN borders on silly tedium.

Don’t panic! After all, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?” Pray for the victims and their families; and pray that the sniper’s plans may be foiled, that his guns jam, that his bullets all miss, and that he be brought to justice.

Update: Big, cheap, fast ratings, that’s what it’s all about, says Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. Link via bene d.