Did You Know....

according to Justine and Origen, the Early Church was sharply accused of being Atheists???

Kids these days:((

Most kids these days have an attention span that's approximately as wide as 1/8 of their girth (give or take a few kilometers). I'm just now looking at my own girth and considering the size of my own attention span, but its true....I'm already tired of blogging.

There are just a few things that are as sure as death. People are born...and they die....bloggers are born and they die, its just a shorter life..that's all. A blogger's life expectancy, according to recent calculations is just under 6 months, and thats being generous. Einstiene himself never realized how terribly reletive time is! Over time, those of us who still consider ourselves Homosapiens, may evolve into Myspaciens that consider an average lifespan to be a mere 6 months.

I can already see it in some future Spring addition of the National Geographic Issue. "The Monkeys We Came From:" Due to annual nuclear meltdown, local Myspaciens uncover in the solidified debris of the remaining portion of the moon, two bodies of apparent Homosapiens. XANGA scans produced conclusive evidence that both pre-historic specimens experienced death as a result of high consentrations of chloroflorocarbons and heavy blogging addictions.

But...hey what is History anyway? And I havn't seen many who seem to want to be a homosapien? Nobody likes to walk, run, or bike to thier destinations anymore, wear their own real hair, grow thier food, or even talk face to face. No....they would rather forget they have a body and let a machine take them to their destination, wear cat hair, no hair, or horse hair at best, take a "One-a-Day" for thier food suppliment, and peck around on something called twitter (which oddly enough really does resemble twitter) , calling THAT relationship!

Whatever is History anyway and who wants to be a homosapien? Beats me, but it worked...I feel like blogging again...or at least going off on something, if you call that blogging :)

What would we do without enemies?

I have been slow to publish this post. In fact I published it, then deleted it after reading it. It sounds arrogant, which is an image the opinionated people of this world must combat whether true or not. Then I read a portion of Revelations, the last part of "The Return of the King" from the ring trilogy, and spent some time thinking about the battle between good and evil. Now I have decided to re-publish this post...for good or for worse :) So make your assumptions about my character and my beliefs, for people do that, and if you think poorly of me after reading this post, well....God still bless you!

Since the time I could understand the English language, I have been hearing one thing coming from Christianity loud and clear. I have been hearing that we as Christian are the ones that really understand reality. We are ones that have sifted through all the foolish games that men play (we don't waste our time with those), and WE are the ones playing the only game that really matters. According to a carpenter from Galilee and one of his most adamant followers, Paul, I believe we should refuse complacency and continue to examine the game we play! Its bad news if we think we are playing baseball and we're really playing Russian Roulette! You better know what game you're playing!

I recently read a fairly potent blog post by Michel Spencer that I found very interesting. Micheal basically points out that in childhood we have our imaginary enemies and their imaginary crimes. Now in our war obsessed evangelical world, we really haven't put or childhood behind us, nor have we put on the new Christ [that both Paul and Jesus Himself speak of]...who refuses to have enemies...in fact stubbornly loves those who believe they can be our enemies. Spencer points out that we haven't put our childhood behind us. We still have our enemies, now....

"Its the militant angry gays and lesbians

Its radical atheists

Its democrats liberals and supporters of the president

Its progressives and their social agenda

Its Muslims

Its the main stream media and their hatred of Christianity

Its the hostile minions of Christianity harassment and persecution

Its the guy you are arguing with in a blog

Its a (so called)Christian who doesn't agree with your politics or theology"

As one comment put it, "Without the "bad guys" [our enemies] the game would be over......OH!!!" I'm wondering what game you're playing? To whose music are you dancing? Which drummer are you following?

Man has been creating games since the beginning of time in an attempt to satisfy some of our strongest thirsts and desires. Football satisfies that barbaric desire in each of us men to "hammer" another man, while skydiving satisfies our risk craving. What about that childhood desire for enemies...my heart breaks for all the grown-up children I see.

"When I was a child I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, i put away childish things. - I Cor. 13:11"

When I speak of enemies, I am not speaking of how we treat others. As good Christians we always treat people lovingly, because we have to (its commanded); however, in my heart I'm still allowed to harbor a kind of hatred for that atheist or evolutionist, right? Somehow I would still like Osama bin laden to die, though I could never treat him that way myself. I am talking about a mindset...a perspective. Who are your subconscious enemies that you aren't even aware of?

I want to play a game that doesn't make my neighbor my enemy. By making my neighbor my enemy, I am losing the battle against the Dark Lord and hindering the advancement of the Kingdom of Light. When I love my neighbor, I cast a revealing light upon the real foe...exposing him...and thus entering into REAL life.

“[B]elieving that [religion or theology] is a botched attempt to explain the world . . . is like seeing ballet as a botched attempt to run for a bus.” - Stanley Fish

Ouch!

In the past 15 years...has your life been revamped by science and technology...or by the humanities(the needs of your neighbor)?