Lutherama: School: The New Religion:
Governments have always striven to instill unity in the populaces they govern. Understandable, considering the easiest way to control the population is when they have a high degree of similarity. In centuries past, governments looked to religion to instill a unified value system in its citizenry – such as Nebuchadnezzar and his great idol, Pharaoh and his deification, Rome and its Emperor worship, Constantine and Christianity, Prussia and the unified national church – the list goes on. The United States even fell into this category until recent years; prior to the sixties Christianity predominated and the government looked to the church to form the moral values of its citizens. Then the minority religions gained a voice and the government realized its predicament: they were walking a tight line as far as the anti-establishment clause was concerned. So, the government had to back off from its quasi-Christian mindset to endorse diversity. Now it had a problem: who could it look to to instill a unified mindset?
The government turned to the one thing it can control: education. Our educational system, public and private, could be used by the government to form the value systems of its people. In recent years, the government has been flexing its muscles in order to change the curriculum into a creature designed to make children into the little governmental “yes men” it desires, forming the young into people who look to Uncle Sam for all the answers: to tell them what to think, and what to buy. Don’t believe me? Just read the editorials and see the number of people screaming for the government to fix all their little problems. The government has, in essence, made itself into a god by instilling into people the hope that it can provide for all their happiness and needs.
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Draft Includer: Asko’s Home Pub Fridge is a Fridge for Real Men – Gizmodo:
The inventor of the HomePub, a fridge freezer with built-in draught beer system, is, it goes without saying, a genius. Designed with special people in mind, the kind who like to pour beer on their cornflakes or drink their coffee with beer and two sugars, there’s designated space for two five-liter kegs.
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Our favorite time of day is that last 20 mintues before storytime and bed. Oh how I wish it would go as well as it did today. Check out the video link of the extravaganza!
Video: Pickup Time!
No surprise here I am sure but it’s confirmed… not only am I 100% Chalcedon compliant but I am also:
32.34714% Geek and so :
Family.org – CitizenLink – ‘Brokeback’ Conviction
In the cultural and policy battles we fight every day, particularly on issues like the normalization of homosexuality and the availability of abortion, it’s easy to take on airs of superiority like those I’ve been wearing. Maybe it’s because we have the truth of Scripture on our side; maybe it’s because we’re fallen human beings prone to arrogance and pride and every other sin under the sun — just like those on the other side of the ideological aisle. Most likely, it’s a combination of the two.
Whatever causes it, though, there is no disputing it cripples our witness for Christ — no matter how we wind up faring on the Culture War scorecard. A victory won gracelessly or gloatingly is no victory at all; even if we eventually succeed in making abortion no longer legal, what have we really accomplished for the Kingdom if our tactics and attitudes drive the people who most need God further away from him?
To watch a film like “Brokeback Mountain” and react the way I did does not please the Lord. He loves those who laughed at that tragic scene I described earlier precisely as much as He loves me. He longs to heal their hearts. If I hope to be a tool He uses to do so, and that ought to be my goal as someone who has felt called to work at a Christian ministry, I’ve got to do more than sniff at the insensitivity and immaturity of those gay men and women I watched the movie with. I’ve got to do more than be disgusted at the subject matter of the film. I’ve got to consider why they laughed — and, in the larger context, why they view this film as such a watershed moment for themselves and their movement.
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I understand that in a few of my recent posts I may have been misunderstood. I will try to make this as simple and explicit as possible. I will also avoid lengthy quotations of scripture. :)
Pastors are not holier people, super beings, or extra talented people.
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Lutheran Heresies! -What’s wrong with the Lutheran religion?
Apparently this gentleman has problems reading. As I have learned so well in Greek, pronouns and antecedents can be dangerous and difficult. As a matter of fact, their a whole heck of a lot easier in Greek because it is an inflected language. The gender of a noun (all nouns have specific male, female, or neuter gender) is inflected on the verb, leaving no confusion.
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