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An animated debate on the Catholic Church

This is interesting: the audio of a debate on the merits (or lack) of the Catholic church between author Stephen Fry and politician Ann Widdecombe, with an animated visual presentation laid over it. 

To get a sense of how the animation affects the content, here's the original video, produced in 2009 for the debating series Intelligence Squared. [The animation, by the way, was released in July.] 

Belief system

 
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
- Frank Lloyd Wright 

 

Epic fail, from the Garden of Eden

 Oh sure, the English of the King James Bible is unspeakably beautiful, but what it would be like if current web language had been deployed? H. Caldwell Tanner published this comic on Loldwell.com earlier this month.