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Tuesday, April 27, 2004

[From Mike Straka at Foxnews.com:]

What Goes Through the Mind of the Oblivion ...

— Who are all these people beeping at?

—Oh look, there's my next door neighbor Bob, who I never talk to even though he lives right next door. Let me stop right here in the middle of the grocery aisle and catch up on the last few years with him. Funny, we never talk as we cut our lawns side-by-side.

— Excuse me! I'm just standing here minding my own business as I stepped off the escalator and you've bumped into me. Watch where you're going.

— Boy, that shopping excursion took the life right out of me. I must have walked five miles in that store. I'm just going to leave my cart right here in my parking spot. Somebody will move it.

—Oh look, the sign says, "Employees must wash hands before returning to work" on the bathroom mirror. Well, I don't work here, so I'm not going to wash my hands.

—Oh, the movie is just about to start. I better run and get some popcorn!


[hyperlinks by: Trew (and Google)
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Will anyone step up and take the hits for their convictions?

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[Seen in National Review:]
Q: How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Hey, that's not funny!

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Saturday, April 24, 2004

Evidence that college is becoming a very expensive waste of time. No wonder we have so many people running the streets who have no idea about absolutely anything (they're mostly liberal, too).

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We need a little Common Sense in this society. Neil Cavuto gives us some.

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Friday, April 23, 2004

David Limbaugh has a great new column where he discusses the outlandish critics of President Bush's religious faith. I don't agree with everything President Bush says about Christianity, but why is the President the only one who is not allowed to bring God into the conversation? Limbaugh answers that it is because the elites in this country fear Christianity as some sort of pre-modern, superstitious and dangerous anomaly on the face of the earth. Why is it that when President Clinton claims to be a Baptist and issues his annual Easter greeting, no one gets uptight? I guess it's only the ones who actually take their faith seriously who are dangerous.

Trew
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Tuesday, April 20, 2004

"Animal testing is a bad idea--they get nervous and give the wrong answers." --Unknown

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Sunday, April 18, 2004

"There is a religious issue facing the country today: whether, in the 21st century, political leaders will continue to devalue the separation of church and state that has been the glory of our nation since the founders wrote a constitution assigning governmental power not to any deity but to 'We the People.'" This from an editorial by Susan Jacoby of the Los Angeles Times. It seems what she really meant was, "not to just any deity, but to 'We the People!'"

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Read Maggie Gallagher's lucid and insightful column on John Kerry and the American Catholic Church here. If you know that I am Lutheran, you are probably wondering why I spend so much time commenting on Roman Catholic controversy. The answer is that I see the Roman Catholic Church in America as a sort of test case for what happens when a church with long-established dogma allows a section of its body to drift further and further from that established corpus doctrinae. It will not be a pretty sight, as we've seen with Episcopalians, Methodists and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; it just takes a little longer with Catholics.
I believe this is because they have concrete dogma that simply cannot be violated. Or, you cannot openly oppose the Pope...or, you can't do it for very long....I mean, you can't do it forever..er, whatever. Though I obviously don't consider canon law the way to go, it is curious that the Catholic Church won't enforce its own canon law, at least not in America. They've been instructed, but the instructions have not been enforced. Perhaps the next Pope will do what this one seems unwilling or unable to do, in spite of his good work elsewhere.

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Wednesday, April 07, 2004

I guess there are still judges out there with common sense and a sense of what non-discrimination really means.

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What have I been listening to recently? For one, Bob Dylan. I can not get over the way he uses words.
Here's a good article/interview with him from the Los Angeles Times.

Trew
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Seriously, what is it with Catholic politicians and their watered-down mush of faith? Read the previous post (Obama is apparently UCC, but one of his "spiritual advisors" is a Roman Catholic); Dick Durbin is more of the same (interviewed, incidentally, by the same person). He gives the same blah-blah-blah about helping people get along in this life. THAT IS NOT CHRISTIANITY! (That's for the seeing-impaired.) Please, please, give me a break. Give me some Rick Santorum any day over this nonsense.
On a different planet ecclesiastically from Dick Durbin is George Neumayr, writing in the American Spectator. Read his take on John Kerry here, essentially calling Kerry a Protestant (not one with whom I'd like to be associated) and American bishops passive.

Trew
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Oh, I know it's not nice to criticize nice, Christian people. I mean, aren't we all in the same boat? We're all human and we all have doubts, right?
Yeah, okay. But there's something about this kind of talk that just sounds like intellectual and spiritual laziness. Barack Obama claims he doesn't believe in hell, nor does he know whether he himself is going to heaven, let alone anyone else. He also claims he reads the Bible and prays. He hasn't read closely enough if he doesn't believe in hell, and if he doesn't know if he's going to heaven. I can imagine him saying, "Heaven. That's a nice metaphor, but doesn't it really just describe us living out our lives the best we can?" Sure, Barack, you tell Jesus that He didn't know what He was talking about. I think this quote is telling: "I think I have an ongoing conversation with God.... I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why I am doing it." I guess when you're asking yourself question, you do have an ongoing conversation with your god.
I realize I'm not being "nice", but is it nice to let people just go along with their delusions about what Christianity is really about? Christianity is neither about simply being nice, nor is it about telling his children that they're nice and honest.
My favorite part of the interview is this:
"It's perhaps an unlikely theological position for someone who places his faith squarely at the feet of Jesus to take, saying essentially that all people of faith -- Christians, Jews, Muslims, animists, everyone -- know the same God.
That depends, Obama says, on how a particular verse from the Gospel of John, where Jesus says, 'I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me,' is heard." Or whether it's heard at all, I suppose. No mention of how Obama "hears" it.

And what kind of spiritual advisors are these who think that they're doing a good job if they just affirm his present course (and we know where present courses get us--something about good intentions, I think it was...)?
Please! Somebody get some guts and a backbone!

Trew
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Saturday, April 03, 2004

From the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice website, a "thank you" from an unnamed woman: "I can’t tell you how long I’ve been tormented with guilt about taking responsibility for my reproductive future. Until I heard about the Religious Coalition, I had no idea that there was any support within any mainstream religious community for the decision to have an abortion. Thank you from the bottom of my heart."

Now I know I can kill my child, and I don't have to worry about going to hell! "Taking responsibility for my reproductive future"--I wish she would. Since when does "taking responsibility" mean taking the easy way out and being "supported" in a decision that endangers one's eternal future? The people responsible for this will answer to God on Judgment Day.
"Whoever causes one of these little ones who believes in me to sin [by becoming a member of the Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom], it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea."
"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, [clergy for choice,] hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land [even unto Washington, D.C.] to make a single proselyte [for choice], and when he becomes a proselyte [for choice], you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves."

Trew
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From the Catholics for a Free Choice website: "How does the church feel about abortion?
The church teaches us that abortion is wrong in all circumstances. However, the church is made up of more than just the pope and bishops. It includes the people God, Clergy, theologians and laity who work together to develop church teachings. Many theologians and lay people today believe that abortion can sometimes be a moral decision and that your conscience should be the final decider of any abortion decision."

Notice the second line: the church includes "the people God, Clergy, theologians and laity who work together to develop church teachings." I wonder if the Church knows that all these people are working together to "develop church teachings"? And what's this about the Church including "the people God"? I think there's supposed to be an "of" there, but I could be wrong. "The people, God"? "The people=God"? Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.

Trew
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You always have to introduce new features to keep the people coming back. (Whether they were coming in the first place is another matter.) In that spirit, I introduce the 'new feature' of Quote of the Day! (Look left...)

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