Yeah, I knew the part about Paul saying that Christians didn't have to follow the commandments; what I was wondering was why some Christians still believe they have to follow those first ten, anyway.
Why am I still awake? And why am I earwormed with "Love Boy" by Dana International, when I don't think I've even listened to that song in about a year? At least it's better than last night, when I was earwormed with the "There is a boarding house, not far away. Where they serve ham and eggs, three times a day" hymn filk that so horrified Ma Ingalls in one of the Little House books. I do not understand where my brain is pulling these songs from.
(Just the share the earworm: [link] Because if I've got to be humming "Yesh li love boy!" other people should, too.)
My last earworm was a mashup of my own brain.
I imagined Johnny Cash singing "The Sounds of Silence."
It has been drifting around in my brain ever since.
why some Christians still believe they have to follow those first ten, anyway.
You need a structure, y'know. Basic Christianity isn't that different from Judaism.
I imagined Johnny Cash singing "The Sounds of Silence."
Heh. Now I'm imagining that, too. It's kind of cool.
I dearly wish that he could have sung it.
Especially the opening talk-sing of "Hello Darkness...my old friend...."
He did a great cover of "Bridge Over Troubled Waters."
OK, I'm going to bed now. I'm finally tired, though I'm also still humming "Love Boy." This might lead to weird dreams...
Yeah, I knew the part about Paul saying that Christians didn't have to follow the commandments; what I was wondering was why some Christians still believe they have to follow those first ten, anyway.
There's a certain amount of "If Jesus mentioned a commandment in the Gospels, then for sure it is a Commandment, and we have to follow it." Jesus, and that funny Paul fellow, neither of them had strong feelings about the edibility of shrimp, or wearing linsey-woolsey, at least not to speak of. But, by gum, they both had opinions about throwing stones and taking things that don't belong to oneself.
So, I went to pubquiz tonight, and one of the categories was cocktails!! I was like "hey, we were just talking cocktails online...". The trivia master read out a list of ingredients, and then we had to name the drink. My team got all of them except the last one, I think (which was some totally bogus drink--something about chambord and vodka and sour mix, I think? A grape soda or something bizarre like that? I don't even remember--it was nothing I'd heard of). The rest were more traditional--an old fashioned, gimlet, manhattan, brandy alexander, mint julep, cuba libre, dark and stormy, cosmo, white russian, a few others.
We felt like total alcoholics by the end, since we did so much better on that category than on the "Hawaii" category. :)
