Digg it, diggers.
So CNN put up a compare and contrast list between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. It listed his religion as Catholic and hers as Christian.
WTF?
Putting aside the implication that Catholics are somehow different from, I can only assume, real Christians, I looked Palin up to see exactly what flavor of Christian she is.
Wikipedia lists Palin as being Assemblies of God, the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination. AGs practice speaking in tongues and faith healing. (Chutney went to a couple of AG churches in high school.)
So I can’t help but wonder: Does she speak in tongues or not?
I was grateful to see Meg Barnhouse’s article in UUWorld this morning. I’ve been sitting on an angry blog post for several days now, and she has said many things about the Knoxville shotting that I wanted to say, but far more gracefully.
Addkison meant to kill UUs. He knows who we are and what we stand for. And that’s why he set out to kill us.
Whatever advantages and disadvantages he started with, he participated with his sovereign free will in making himself what he is today. I think this is more respectful of him and his inherent worth than to imply that he couldn’t help what he did, that he was on some kind of predestined track to disaster.
It’s not yet time to forgive. It’s still time to be outraged. And not in the bullshit way we get outraged via our bumper stickers.
Another article about the fragmentation and decline of the evangelical movement and the arguments about how to fix it. This is the first one I’ve read that showcases universalists (besides Carlton Pearson) speaking up for themselves.
Some of them believe that instead of calling their reading of the Bible “the truth,” they need to admit that their doctrines are merely their understanding. They need to be humble before God and humanity. They need to stop selling Christianity and engage nonbelievers in open, non-dogmatic and respectful friendships that don’t have scalp-collecting agendas.
Some of their pastors are adopting universalist ideas even from the pulpit.
From Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue by Paul Woodruff:
In our time we hear more praise of irreverence than we do of reverence, especially in the media. That is because we naturally delight in mockery and we love making fun of solemn things. It is not because, in our heart of hearts, we despise reverence. In my view, the media are using the word “irreverent” for qualities that are not irreverent at all. A better way to say what they have in mind would be “bold, boisterous, unrefined, unimpressed by pretension”—all good things. Reverence is compatible with these and with almost every form of mockery… Reverence and a keen eye for the ridiculous are allies: both keep people from being pompous or stuck up.
Fafblog is back!
“But the ape authorities rejected the message of Gorilla Jesus, cause their hearts were hard and their minds were closed and they couldn’t tell what he was sayin cause they were all just a buncha gorillas,” says Giblets.
“And so they tried an convicted Gorilla Jesus of heresy an witchcraft an they sentenced him to death,” says me. “And that’s when the robots attacked.”
Read all about it.
