Faith
The Reluctant Scribe is my Dear Friend, and I am his. I may not be blessed with faith, but I am blessed with friends. All of which means that I can only hope that the Abou Ben Adhem approach to God works for me.
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Friday laugh — and a jab at the health care debate
Jack, the ExPreacherman, emailed me a great joke: During a visit to the mental asylum, I asked the Director “How do you determine whether or not a patient should be institutionalized?” “Well,” said the Director, “we fill up a bathtub. Then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket
Continue readingInteresting notion about how to interpret the Bible’s first sentence
See what you think.
Continue readingConfirmation that liberalism is a religion — and Obama is the God *UPDATED*
The Breitbarth site headlines the following video as follows: SHOCK DISCOVERY: COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS PRAY TO PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA With my pre-Obama mindset, I promptly inverted the language and read it as a normal sentence: SHOCK DISCOVERY: COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS PRAY TO ELECT PRESIDENT OBAMA How naive I was. This political activism group,
Continue readingEven the Muslims are mad at Britain’s most recent attack of dhimmitude
We’re getting near the tail-end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month that requires dawn to dusk fasting. Now, I’m a gal who enjoys noshing during the day, so I’m not thrilled about abstaining from food and drink for 10 hours. I’d be especially unhappy if it was a hot day,
Continue readingI wonder if God’s name was mentioned once at this “sermon”
Wright crawled out from under the bus to give a “sermon” at Glide Memorial in SF, a “church” more famous for its activism, than its religion. Wright’s “sermon” was in keeping with the “church’s” mission, which is political, not religious: In a half-hour, high-energy sermon, sprinkled with spontaneous songs, jokes
Continue readingOh God! Obama.
It occurred to me that, two times in as many days, I’ve alluded to the first couple’s Messiah complex. Yesterday, I noted that Michelle and Barack are pretty sure that John 3:16 applies to their willingness to “give” Obama to the American people and, just a few hours ago I
Continue readingNo opinions, please. We’re British.
Picture this: You’re a believing Christian, and you work for a Christian charity that is under the patronage of your country’s major Christian organization. One of your colleagues, in a private conversation, asks for yours views about your faith. You say that you’re opposed as a doctrinal matter, but that
Continue readingSeparation does not mean destruction
My son came home from public school the other day complaining that one of his teachers used a history lesson as an opportunity to launch into a short speech about how Obama was going to bring peace to the world. (Which is true, if you accept that, as Charles Krauthammar
Continue readingSo much for eternal truths
Am I the only one to be a bit surprised by Tony Blair’s chutzpah? He’s been Catholic for about a year, and he is already presuming to tell the Pope that the Church’s doctrine is wrong and should be changed. Perhaps, ex-PM Blair, you should have converted to a different
Continue readingIt is already happening there
The other day, I asked “can it happen here?” The Radio Patriot reminded me that it is already happening there, in France. Mark Steyn talked about the demographic destruction of Europe in his book America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It. But he didn’t include maps.
Continue readingIs this what the cross is reduced to in St. George’s kingdom?
There’s a row in England over the fact that a kids’ cartoon magazine, published by the Who Cares? Trust, which receives a great deal of public funding, shows a boy wearing a large cross being an Islamophobe, while a hijab clad girl is an articulate, brave defender of human rights.
Continue readingState encroaching on church
As you know, one of my main reasons for supporting Proposition 8, which amended the California constitution to define marriage as a relationship between one man and one woman, was because I believe that the move to redefine marriage has the potential to put the State and religious organizations —
Continue readingFaith and politics
I was not thrilled by Bush’s Office on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, since I don’t want the White House involved in faith, but I recognized it as a pragmatic means to increasing the effectiveness of existing religious charities. I also wasn’t too concerned because I did not see it as
Continue readingA mish-mash
It’s been an incoherent day, one that never gave me the opportunity for contemplation and writing. Instead, I’ve been bopping here and there, and dealing with one thing and another. Nevertheless, I have been tracking the news, so I thought I’d just write up a mish-mash of thoughts about current
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