Another religious post

For those of you who were missing my religious streak.. Call it the time of year, but I felt the need to post another one.

So here's my question. Is the Bible God's Word? I believe that the Bible is God's Word as interpreted by man. (Guess I should check with the Catholic Church on that, I might have just excommunicated myself.) I will go as far as to say that some of it is God instructing what to say in certain passages, obviously the 10 commandments falls into this, but I am also willing to add the passages where the prophets say that God "told them to say..." There may be other examples, but you get my drift. I also believe that the parts of the New Testament that quote Jesus can be considered the Word directly.

What sparked this, is someone recently saying that the Bible was the True Word of God and should be taken as the absolute Truth. I don't think that alot of the Old Testament can be taken as the absolute Truth because quite a bit of it was creating Jewish laws which Jesus generally discounted during his time.

Now that I have upset everyone, I will leave you to comment or not as you see fit.

Another email - Libby you're going to love this one!

Little Angelica comes home from first grade and tells her father that they learned about the history of Valentine's Day. And, "Since Valentine's Day is for a Christian saint and we're Jewish," she asks, "will God be mad at me for giving someone a valentine?

Angelica's father thinks a bit, and then says "No, I don't think God would get mad. Who do you want to give a valentine to?"

"Osama Bin Laden," she says.

"Why Osama Bin Laden," her father asks in shock?

"Well," she says, "I thought that if a little American Jewish girl could have enough love to give Osama a valentine, he might start to think how maybe we're not all bad, and maybe start loving people a little bit. And if other kids saw what I did and then they sent valentines to Osama, he'd love everyone a lot more and then he'd start going all over the place to tell everyone how much he loved them and how he didn't hate anyone anymore."

Her father's heart swells and he looked at his daughter with newfound pride. "Angelica, that's the most wonderful thing I've ever heard."

"I know," she says, "and once that gets him out in the open, the Marines can blow the livin’ shit out of him."

Unbelievable.

I believe Italy is being taken over by idiots.

"Italy's Reform Minister Roberto Calderoli has had T-shirts made emblazoned with cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a move that could embarrass Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government. "

"He said the T-shirts were not meant to be a provocation but added that he saw no point trying to appease extremists."

What is going on in Italy? I think they've lost their minds. Oh, and by the way idiot, it wasn't allt he extremists that were upset, it was muslims in general. Perhaps only the extremists are the ones rioting?

Happy Valentine's Day

See here.

Cartoon riots

I hate the term "cartoon riots". It makes it sound like there's a bunch of cartoon characters out there rioting over some lack of acme products - like a falling anvil.

I'm assuming everyone knows what I'm talking about, but if not I'll find a link to post. What does everyone think about the rioting and protests? I know I'm a little behind the times, but this is the first chance I've had to post.

Remarkable Obituary - Had to share this email from my sister Lisa

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Mr. Common Sense. Mr. Sense had been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such value lessons as knowing when to come in out of the rain, why the early bird gets the worm and that life isn't always fair. Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you earn) and reliable parenting strategies (adults, not kids, are in charge).


His health began to rapidly deteriorate when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place - reports of a six-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student - only worsened his condition.


Mr. Sense declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer aspirin to a student but could not inform the parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.


Finally, Common Sense lost the will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband, churches became businesses, and criminals received better treatment than their victims.


Common Sense finally gave up the ghost after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot, spilled a bit in her lap, and was awarded a huge financial settlement. Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust, his wife, Discretion, his daughter, Responsibility, and his son, Reason. He is survived by two stepbrothers, My Rights and Ima Whiner. Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.