submitted/post title by an Anonymous contributorConform!!! CONFORM!!!! CONFORM!!!! CONFORM!!!!!
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submitted AND reviewed by frequent contributor Ryan DeVries, IndiaBecause evil and wrath are in front of them?
Joel's note: And don't call me "Shirley".
(Yes, we know it's a Bible passage. Once again, how many other people will know this?)
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"Until further notice, celebrate everything."
submitted AND reviewed by frequent contributor Allen's Brain
Evidence of a lull in the liturgical calendar.
Joel's Note: With presents. Celebrate everything by giving me presents.
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"Baptism is more then a splash" (sic)
submitted by frequent contributor Allen's Brain
Especially when you do a cannonball into the tank!
WHEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
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WHEW!! Quite a lively day in the comments section yesterday!! I sometimes wonder how many people actually read this blog. My stats tell me hundreds of people visit each day, but since my comments aren't nearly as heavily trafficked as on some blogs, I wonder how many of those hundreds actually read CCS and how many just surf on by.
The answer: At least two dozen or so of you actually read this. Thanks, guys!
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For today's lively comment section conversation topic, check out this interview from The Daily Show with Jim Wallis, author and founder of Sojourners. I really enjoyed Mr. Wallis' last book and appreciate the stand he takes about Christianity's role in politics.
I get a little leery whenever a Christian takes on such a huge national presence. Christians, of all people, have the tendency to idol worship a little bit. People like Mr. Wallis can take on a larger-than-life presence in the hearts of Christians when they are invited to such "cool" places as The Daily Show. I really try to guard against that, so I am almost a bit of a skeptic when it comes to stuff like this.
So, while I certainly don't agree with everything Mr. Wallis says and believes (because I specifically looked for instances where I disagree), I still very much appreciate his heart for social matters and will be interested to read his new book.
In short, I think it's his basic human decency that draws me to him.....
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Humor-blogs.com is more than a splash.
Keep 'em coming.
Who ya callin' Shirley?
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The first one
My thought process:
"I can't read this lettering...
ba, bam, it looks like banana..
can't be...
ba, bah, bana, ????...
the word just below it is bunch,
its gotta be banana,
what the hell?
I don't really understand the message they are trying to get across.
ReplyDeleteBut I am going to start using that as an example for my kids.
See....that's what happens when the bananna leaves the.....
"Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me... but not too close, dammit!"
ReplyDeleteIn the same vein...
ReplyDelete"And when Goodness and Mercy do not follow you...State Farm is there."
"If you can read this, Goodness and Mercy are too close!"
ReplyDeleteJoel, I'm a lurker who read your blog weekly. I just don't usually have anything clever to add. Have a great weekend.
Count me in the 2 dozen.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of bananas, as Steve Taylor once said: Cloneliness is next to Godliness.
ReplyDeleteAnd as Diesel was saying, it would be better if Goodness and Mercy didn't tailgate.
But I really like the video of Wallis, I just bought his book but haven't had a chance to read it yet.
It also nicely caps a conversation we have been having over at the Comma
Michael Scott used that "don't call me Shirley" line. It's a zinger!
ReplyDeleteThat's what she said...
ReplyDeleteIt was more than a splash here, for sure...
ReplyDeleteI love it when Christians demonstrate basic human decency, because there's so much of it in the Bible. Like that story in 2 Kings 2:23-24 where God sends down two bears to kill 42 children because they insulted an old guy. Or that time when Jesus called a woman a "dog" and humiliates her because she was a Canaanite. Now that kind of human decency we should see more of.
ReplyDeleteFrancois, the Bible is a REALLY long book with a lot of stuff in it, all of which occurred thousands of years ago in very foreign cultures.
ReplyDeleteIt's specious of you to try to pull 2 verses completely out of context to prove that the Bible approves of immoral behavior.
Re: your specific examples, Elisha was not an "old guy." He was the spokesman for God among the Israelites. And the word translated as "children" is more accurately translated as "young men." 42 of them. Imagine a gang of young punks harassing an elderly minister as he's walking down the street. Elisha might very well have been in fear for his life.
Second, read this explanation of Jesus' referring to the Canaanite woman as a dog.
Or, for that matter, just read the next verse in the passage, where she says, "Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table." Then Jesus says to the woman, "O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt." Her daughter was healed as a result.
Jesus wasn't insulting the woman; he was testing her. She was rewarded for her faith. If this passage is insulting anyone, it is the Jews, who -- though being the children of God -- have refused the gift Jesus has given them. As a result, the gift is passed on to the "dogs" at the table -- that is, the gentiles.
Of course, all of this would be clear to anyone who did more than skim the Bible looking for ways to put down Christianity.
"It's specious of you to try to pull 2 verses completely out of context to prove that the Bible approves of immoral behavior. "
ReplyDeleteI hate to say this, but Christians do this constantly. Some Christians believe the book is a book of set in stone rules that must be followed, constantly quoting things like "Man should not lie with man as with woman" (paraphrasing) but ignore classics about not eating shellfish (godhatesshrimp.com), not cutting your hair, and stealing people's shoes for committing sins. I don't think it's right for anyone to pick out a few sentences of the Bible to set up a whole system of beliefs.
Andi...
ReplyDeleteYou're right, Christians shouldn't do it any more than non-Christians should. We're wrong to do that.
Just want to point out that isn't what Diesel did in the above post. He was just trying to show the two verses Francois pulled out were out of context.
Knowing Diesel as I do, I know he wouldn't have hesitated to do the same thing if it had been a Christian posting uncontexted (which apparently isn't a word...) verses.
I ruined my own joke :(
ReplyDelete"UNcontexted '08!"
Oh, I know it wasn't Diesel who started it, I just wanted to point out that it happens way too often.
ReplyDeleteAnd I vote "uncontexted" become a new word. I added it to Firefox's dictionary and I think everyone else should to.
"Contexted '08!"
Andi, have you ever read anything about the difference between the moral law and the ceremonial law?
ReplyDeleteThere is a reason why Christians follow certain precepts from the Bible and not others.