Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Strange Facts about Christian Leaders #4

1.  David Steele and Curtis Thomas were both born when Halley's Comet came into view in 1835. When they died in 1910, Halley's Comet was in view again...wait a second...sorry, that was Mark Twain.

2.  Mark Driscoll's home is free of badgers.

3.  Tim Keller once thought about ordering personalized license plates but later changed his mind.

4.  R. C. Sproul has never been bitten by the deadly Brazilian wandering spider.

5.  C. J. Mahaney walked out of his home one day and didn't come back until after dark.

6.  Many years ago, Steve Lawson escaped injury when his vehicle knocked over his garbage can while backing out of his driveway.

7.  Cornelius Van Til, in his prime, could probably whip R. J. Rushdoony with one hand tied behind his back.


8.  John Frame is also a classically trained musician and a critic of film, music, and chocolate Easter bunnies.

9.  Abraham Kuyper, in his early years, would mark on walls with crayons.

10.  Louis Berkhof has never bought plastic flamingos in the United States OR in Canada!
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4 comments:

  1. Constitution GirlSeptember 7, 2011 at 7:45 AM

    Cornelius Van Til, in his prime, could probably whip R. J. Rushdoony with one hand tied behind his back.

    That was because Rush was still writing his first school essay, Faith for Every Area Of the Playground.

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  2. Fake Coke CanSeptember 7, 2011 at 8:34 AM

    OK, for the pedantic:

    Cornelius Van Til, in his prime, could probably whip R. J. Rushdoony in his prime with one hand tied behind his back.

    But was it Cornelius' or Rush's hand that was tied behind his back? And who's back was it tied behind?

    These and other mysteries will be answered by Eddie the Excellent in future episodes of ... /insert dramatic echo effects here/ Calvinistic Cartoons /end echo/

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  3. stranger.strange.landSeptember 8, 2011 at 9:20 PM

    The last appearance of Halley's Comet was in 1986 the same year that both President Reagan and Billy Graham attended Hal Holbrook's one-man-show about Mark Twain.

    (*Cue the Twilight Zone theme music)

    President Reagan was shot in an assassination attempt on March 30, 1981, less than 2 months after the untimely passing of Bill Haley, founder of the rock & roll group, Bill Haley and His Comets. (Billy Graham never heard of Bill Haley and His Comets.)

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  4. mikew116September 8, 2011 at 10:37 PM

    "John Frame is also a classically trained musician and a critic of film, music, and chocolate Easter bunnies."

    The man's got taste...well, he has to, chocolate bunnies would all be the same if he didn't.

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