Monday, October 01, 2012
"Christian Church"
I found this church in Craig, CO while driving doing my great western bike ride. I originally intended on returning via the same route, but changed my mind later in the ride. It wasn't until I was on the other side of the Rockies did I remember "Shoot! I won't be able to take a picture of 'Christian Church'." So unfortunatley I have to rely on Google's street picture.
Yep, "church" has turned into a generic religious building now. Remind secular fanatics to speak of separation of religion and state.
ReplyDeleteI don't even think that you need to go to a church specifically to study Christianity. In fact, I read the whole Bible on my own even though I was attending a nondenominational church at the time. You can pretty much justify anything based on one's individual interpretation of religious texts
ReplyDeleteOn an unrelated note, here's a welfare fraud story. This lady also won over $700,000 from the lottery but did not inform the state of Michigan about what happened, so she continued to collect welfare benefits and died as a result of a drug overdose. The Obama administration has sadly been a huge failure in this respect because more people than ever are on welfare and food stamps. We need to have heavier restrictions on these types of programs and cut funding to them substantially already. Otherwise, you get all these lazy, unproductive people that want to defraud the system in place.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/01/michigan-woman-charged-with-collecting-welfare-after-1-million-lottery-win-found-dead/
this is just meant to be a joke guys. No need to get serious today.
ReplyDelete***I don't even think that you need to go to a church specifically to study Christianity. In fact, I read the whole Bible on my own even though I was attending a nondenominational church at the time. You can pretty much justify anything based on one's individual interpretation of religious texts***
ReplyDeleteYou are right there. Honestly, although some stuff can be tricky, most Bible interpretation is really not that hard.
The problem is two-fold:
1.) Every subject matter from religion to economics can have people making their own ‘individual interpretations’ to justify just about anything. However, most interpretations of a subject are fairly obviously B.S. rationalizations and not even remotely valid interpretations.
For example, all the beta Churchian garbage we see and the way the mainstream American Church has been teaching wrt to gender relations is total B.S. and it contradicts the clear language of the Bible. Notice how many preachers will avoid the most un-PC parts of Scripture. How many preachers will go near the verses about wives having to submit to their husbands?
2.) Even a very little bit of understanding of the history and cultural context of the ancient Semitic world goes an enormous way toward properly understanding the Bible, but most people are simply unwilling to do even the very basic, super-simple legwork. It really isn’t that hard. Tomes have been written on Bible passages that even the most uneducated person in the ancient Semetic world would have understood immediately…we don’t have the same cultural context so it takes a bit of work, but really not that much. Knowledge of a few Hebrew customs as well as the basic notion of how many (if not nearly all) ancient societies were, in contrast to Western culture, agonistic and dyadic societies, would eliminate a huge amount of theological debate out there. Cutting out pathetic rationalizations to keep modern liberal feminists happy would eliminate nearly all the rest.
In the end I guess that all we can do is cut through all the B.S. and live out faith the best we can.
***On an unrelated note, here's a welfare fraud story. This lady also won over $700,000 from the lottery but did not inform the state of Michigan about what happened, so she continued to collect welfare benefits and died as a result of a drug overdose. The Obama administration has sadly been a huge failure in this respect because more people than ever are on welfare and food stamps. We need to have heavier restrictions on these types of programs and cut funding to them substantially already. Otherwise, you get all these lazy, unproductive people that want to defraud the system in place.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/01/michigan-woman-charged-with-collecting-welfare-after-1-million-lottery-win-found-dead/
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Stuff like this tempts me all the more to ‘enjoy the decline’ – I think the captain called this one right - why work so damn hard when an increasingly large % of the populace is just playing the system and living off my tax money? I wonder how many druggie welfare queens my tax dollars have funded…
When you say that the Obama administration has been a failure regarding an ever-increasingly dependent populace…recall that a key part of the whole democrat strategy has been to create an unassailable voting block consisting of people dependent on handouts – that way they will always vote democrat, no matter what.
For whatever his faults are, Romney was totally right about that whole ‘47%’ thing. Obama only failed by one definition of failure – but by the actual metric that the democrats are using (obtaining a permanent looter majority to keep them in office) he wildly succeeded.
I know the Captain said that that
post was not that serious but sometimes I can’t help myself.
That sign is pretty funny though!