Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live." View all posts by Jimmy Akin
You definetly need a sponge bob square pants “separated-at/by” joke….
Just a suggestion. 😉
Those wacky Russians!
I am mystified by this levity over the photos showing Viktor Yushchenko before and after being poisoned. Is it hilarious because it shows the results of an attempt to throw the election to the other guy? Or is it hilarious because Yushchenko may have been permanently disfigured by this attempt on his life. Please, let me in on the joke.
Otherwise, I’m so newly back to the fold, that I naively think the levity just plain un-Christ-like.
I don’t consider it funny *at all.*
I consider it *shocking,* and I posted it the way I did to try to throw sharp relief on the shockingness of it.
Irony (the literary device I used in the above post) is often employed to convey shock and dismay at things. (Note my three exclamation points.)
Now that there is (apparently) proof it was poison, people should be outraged at what happened to him. I sincerely hope those who did it are caught and prosecuted for attempted murder.
I also take it that Billy’s remark was ironic and thus not meant to make fun of Yushchenko (i.e., it was Russians who poisoned him).
As a forensic toxicologist (in-training), I am most seriously frustrated that they did not go into more detail about the poison other than to suggest it might be dioxin.
Unfortunately, sarcasm and irony sometimes are sometimes difficult to convey in this format.