"Why do people choose the substitute over God himself? Probably the most important reason is that it obviates accountability to God. We can meet idols on our own terms because they are our own creations. They are safe, predictable, and controllable; they are, in Jeremiah's colorful language, the 'scarecrows in a cornfield' (10:5). They are portable and completely under the user's control. They offer nothing like the threat of a God who thunders from Sinai and whose providence in this world so often appears to us to be incomprehensible and dangerous . . . [People] need face only themselves. That is the appeal of idolatry."
- David F. Wells
Friday, July 30, 2010
Sometimes when I'm writing and get stuck, in order to get a mental break, I type something random in my google window just to see what I get back.
Just now I googled "I like broccoli". I don't know why. I just wanted to see if anyone actually wrote that. (Only 154,000 results.)
What about you? What's the weirdest thing you've ever typed into a search engine, and what kind of results did you get?
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Comments on "What's The Weirdest Thing You've Ever Googled?":
3. MzEllen
- 07/30/2010 7:34 pm CDT
It sounded so reasonable at the time...and it ended up being x-rated. :-(
I was assigned to make a "wall" for my school - every room had a different country and we drew Holland.
There are a lot of pictures of windmills and little Dutch girls...but not many little Dutch boys.
What story do you think of when you want to conjure up a little Dutch boy?
Right.
A boy with his finger in the...
yikes. And I was googling from school and got checked up on. The tech guy laughed when he found how what I was really looking for.
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"chickeny goodness". I got somebody's blog which I've continued to follow.