Anglicans are atheists

Is apparently what Dostoevsky said of Mother Church! Geeez - isn't that's a bit too strong?? Even I who is not a dyed-in-the wool Anglican was a bit mortified to hear that. Anyway I haven't been able to find the original quote in context so let me give you Dostoevsky's supposed reasoning:

1) That Anglicans are suckers for the middle ground

2) But trying to take middle ground whenever it's not anchored in principle ultimately leads to compromise

3) In the case of Theology Proper this results in denying God's revealed Truth

In sum, employing the via media as your theological method stealthily leads you to paganistan! To hear all this (and more) put much more eloquently, click on the video below:

Why be a veggie?

“By design and destiny, humans are omnivores. Our teeth and digestive systems are all-purpose and ready for anything. Our genes do not dictate what foods we should find tasty or repulsive. We come into the world with a yen for sweets and a weak aversion to bitterness, and after four months develop a fondness for salt. Some people are born particularly sensitive to one taste or odour... a tiny fraction of adults, between 1 and 2 percent, have true (And truly dangerous) food allergies. All human cultures consider fur, paper, and hair inappropriate as food. And that's about it. Everything else is learned. Yet by the age of twelve, we all suffer from a haphazard collection of food aversions ranging from revulsion to indifference. [But] by closing ourselves off to the bounties of nature, we become failed omnivores. We let the down the omnivore team. God tells us in the book of Genesis, right after Noah's flood, to eat everything under the sun. Those who ignore His instructions are no better than godless heathens.” 

In short, don't let the omnivore side down!

Quote taken from Jeffrey Steingarten's wildly funny The Man Who Ate Everything