DO NOT VOTE FOR THESE PEOPLE!

Yeah, who isn't...

Jerry Falwell was not one of my favorite people on the planet. In fact, most of my papers during my first year in seminary were written in an effort to tear down what he had built. But for all the criticism that he got, this one is the most ironic. Take this clip for example.



The family guy clip was laying out the criticism that Falwell's message was entirely about hate and now the church has produced someone that is more about hate than Falwell himself. I don't think that Falwell was entirely about hate but I certainly believe that Phelps is. In that sense I guess I wish the writers at Family Guy had waited to play that card when it was more approperate.

When I did hear of Falwell's death I mourned his death in a way I felt was appropriate for mourning someone whom I didn't agree with and whose legacy is going to be the bane of my existence for the next five decades.

But when Phelps passes I am not sure if I will be able to muster the grace I had for Falwell.

Ten Commandments

http://gorillamask.net/colbert10c.shtml

This kind of shit that just drives me crazy. He has no idea what the commandments are and wants them put up in court houses. I hope this was staged. He knows just about as much about the ten commandments as Bill Maher (who I am a fan of, just FYI).



Don't swear?!? I think he is talking about "don't take the Lord's name in vain" which isn't swearing and it isn't what most christian think it is either. When I say "God" or "Jesus Christ" in anger as in "God damn that computer for crashing again," it has nothing to do with taking the lord's name in vain. Its about taking oaths by God's name. Jesus was talking about this when he said let your "yes" be "yes" and your "no" a "no."

I don't really want to get into explain my point of view on what this verse means, but as long as people are willing to stay in the dark about what they feel are important issues then we will continue to see these kinds of discussions that are totally fruitless and based on nothing other than ignorance mixed a bit of passion.

More about brothers...

I just posted something about me and my brother, even though it showed up under Feb 7, I just posted it today. I was recalling one time when I was very young and my brother 3 and half years younger, then very young. We were at the T-intersection of 32nd and Bonnie Doone, where later that year I would watch my brother, in his hast, run in front of a car which stopped soon enough to not hit him and scare me to death. I don't recall much of what happened to bring about my screaming at my friend John, but I remember yelling and desperately trying to hold back tears. I failed and ended up crying and yelling at John that he had "brain washed my brother." What I think happened now that I look back at it is that John had just temporarily replaced me as my brothers "role model" and I became jealous. Jealousy may have been what drove me to scream at one of my best friends that he had brain washed my brother, but it was well intentioned jealousy and John usurping that role that I had played genuinely hurt. John was a fairly confident kid and Jonathan (my brother), who had tagged along that day, was mimicking him more so than me, and I not knowing how to handle the situation reacted adversely to all who were present and both my brother and I ended up walking home. At least that is what I assume happened because I don't remember but my brother was too young to walk home alone at that point. Maybe my brother will read this memoir of more than a decade later and remember or he may have been to young, either way I hope that he knows that he is important to me and has always been so. A fact that is evident by my reaction back then and my posting about it now. Jonathan has always been the hinge on which my emotions move and that is no less true now then it has been in the past. Jonathan if you ever read this, please know that you have been and are loved.