Jeremy Thompson

Tag: Theology

  • “He shall be called a Nazorean.” — no prophet ever

    Ok, ok. I’m just having a little fun with my literalist friends and others who accuse the Catholic Church of not following “the clear teaching of scripture.”  Today’s lectionary reading includes Matthew 2:23, which reads as follows: He went and dwelt in a town called Nazareth, so that what had been spoken through the prophets…

  • The 10 book meme – my version

    This is my version of the meme going around on Facebook (not that anyone asked) to name 10 books that have stuck with you without thinking too much about it: Ecclesiastes – unknown Night – Elie Wiesel The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle Introduction to Christianity – Joseph Ratzinger (or Truth Tolerance…

  • Python to save your soul

    In a previous post, I showed you how Python can let you print important things over and over again. Here I’m posting a video that just might save your soul with the code for the quiz at the bottom of the post: from random import randint import sys questions = {1 : [“Joel is a…