'The Message'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I'm irritated with the people who are very vocal about being "Christian" but seem to get most of their biblical information from the Old Testament.
So they're really just confused Jews, then.
Bad month for super creative, innovative, revolutionarily talented Jews.
I still cry a little on the way home from work, when I hit Atwater Village.
COWGIRL GET TO WORK!
That means I don't have to, right?
YAY
I'm irritated with the people who are very vocal about being "Christian" but seem to get most of their biblical information from the Old Testament.
So they're really just confused Jews, then.
Except that I'm sure that most of these people would say that the Talmud doesn't count.
My motivation doesn't seem to have come to work today, which is bad, but my ability to care didn't come either.
Clearly they are off conspiring together about how to convince you to go out for drinks later.
YOU TOO LEE!
I am a ball of nerves. I think discharge will happen tonight and I just want to take him to eat all of the ice cream.
Fingers crossed for discharge going as smoothly as possible, and good ice cream!
YOU TOO LEE!
lalalala, I can't hear you
ALso claiming the founding fathers were Christian.
It really depends on how you define the founding fathers. It seems that most of the people who are claiming this are thinking about black-clothed Pilgrims praying with friendly Indians over a Thanksgiving turkey. (Side note: Black was a very expensive dye. The Pilgrims would have thought that someone wearing black was putting on airs. Governor Bradford had "a Turkey red grograin suit, red waistcoat, tawny colored suit with silver buttons, a violet cloak of velvet lined with taffeta.")
The men who wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were heavily influenced by Enlightenment philosophers who emphasized natural rights, understanding the world through science and questioning orthodoxy. Few expressed much religious fervor, except in the sense of worshiping god through the beauty of the natural world. Deists were distinctly not Christian. Deists believed that there was a Creator, but not one actively involved in the world, and that study of all religions and natural law would yield basic moral principles for all people.
ice cream sounds like a good plan, msbelle. Sending ~ma that everything goes smoothly.
A motion for ice cream is always in order.
I hope some good comes of all this, msbelle.
Except that I'm sure that most of these people would say that the Talmud doesn't count.
Some folks have religious beliefs that are on par with how my family has its own "rules" for scrabble that have nothing to do with the ones printed on the box.