Two Videos You Should BuyAs recommended by Southern Baptist Convention News. First, that documentary about George Bush's faith (sure, we mentioned this previously, but the SBC News piece has some new details):
Yup, he was suddenly stone-cold sober after 20 years of living in a chemical wonderland. Did the psychological problems he drank (and drugged) to escape disappear too? Did he suddenly gain all the knowledge and maturity he should have obtained during those 20 years he drank away? Um, no. But that doesn't mean his sudden stone-cold sobriety isn't a testament to his Christian faith.
Yes, being rude and obnoxious is how one demonstrates one's integrity. Supposedly this Last Temptation of the Bush occured during the Bush-Quayle campaign in 1988 -- do you think the public figure who told George to just relax with the nice lady was Poppy Bush? Anyway, we still haven't set up Church O'Crap, and so haven't got our free copy of this video, but I imagine prices will really drop after November, so maybe we'll buy one then. SBC News also lets us know about a rockin', edgy, MTV for Christian teens video series called "Fuel." It's for youth leaders to show during Bible study classes.
"Bonus room"? Is that a Baptist thing, a Southern thing, or just a dorky thing?
I'm sure that's what is was designed to be, but ...
But hopefully, not biblically.
You all recall how Noah took two of every kind of animal on his skateboard, right?
And all kids, even the different ones, are into skateboading! To the max! So, by mentioning it, the Bible is now relevent to them!
Wow, the kids these days sure love their skateboarding.
Gee, how could having a youth leader tell how the story of Noah relates to skateboarding be cheesy?
And, as Dennis Prager informed us last week, MTV is "the greatest destroyer of young people's minds and souls in American history." So we're glad the Baptist kids are going to hell along with everybody else now.
Wow, I could get a free fuel DVD for Church O'Crap's youth program! I hope you guys like skateboarding, because that will be the theme of our Wednesday night Bible study group. 6:55:53 AM ![]() |
'Any Sassy Children Living in YOUR Home?'That's the question WorldNetDaily has been posing for several days now. Sometimes they ask it out of the blue, and sometimes it's in connection with an article on John Kerry winning the Nickolodeon presidential poll, or one on how a kid killed his mother's ex-boyfriend for making the family move. (And maybe it's just me, but manslaughter goes beyond what I would call sassiness.) But in any case, it's nice that WorldNetDaily Press has a book to go with every other WorldNetDaily news article. So, let's learn about dealing sassy kids, won't we?
Child training, much like dog training, is mostly about swatting the dog (or child) with a newspaper when it misbehaves, like the Bible says.
While Pete found a guy who claims that the Bible says that aliens (and the devil) HAVE been tampering with human DNA (it was part of some plan, probably dreamed up by Dick Cheney, to keep Christ from being born, or something), I agree with Pastor Bradley that that's probably not why your children are sassy.
Yeah, what do those damned child psychologists or school teachers or Child Protective Services know about training children? If the Bible says to beat your children, then you'd better not go against God's Word. And never misunderstand human depravity -- while it might seem like sneaking a popsicle before dinner is no big deal, it's what caused God to destroy Sodom and Gomorra, so you'd better beat the depravity out of your kid before God destroys him or her.
In an adult-run home, children eat what they're given, are fascinated by whatever their parents say they will take an interest in, and can last through even an 8-hour service. Or else! You sure don't want the children influencing any of the decisions that involve them -- if God had wanted them to be individuals deserving of some measure of respect, He wouldn't have made them little, would've He?
Yup, once again it's all about breaking the kiddies' will, demanding quick obedience, and requiring blind obedience. Because the only good child is a quiet, respectful, cowed child who will tamp down his rage until he has children of his own. The subtitle to the book is "What I Wish I Knew When My Children Were Young." But I imagine it might be rephrased as, "What I wish I knew before my children denounced me on Oprah." 5:52:06 AM ![]() |
We Don't Need No Quaint Geneva ConventionsToday's NY Times features the first part in a series about the plan to do away with both the Geneva Conventions and the Bill of Rights when dealing with prisoners taken in the War on Terror. To me, the scariest thing detailed in the article was the way the group drafting the policy was soon excluding anyone who who argued for basic fairness for prisoners, since toughness and ruthlessness (or being "forward-leaning") was the official mind set (you know, since 9/11 changed everything, including our country's core values).
Sadly, while this administration wanted to be Dirty Harry, it just ended up being Sledge Hammer -- sadly, in their efforts to be brutally efficient, they forgot to be, you know, efficient.
Also scary was how White House lawyers were using terrorism as a opportunity (or pretext) to expand the power of the President. And really chilling was that many of the lawyers involved in this were members of the Federalist Society. (When you recall that Ann Coulter is a member of the Federalist Society, you realize why this fact should keep you up at night.) Also interesting (in an apalling way) is how how the people who should have been involved in formulating the policy (most notably Condi Rice and Colin Powell, but also the military lawyers) weren't included -- because the super-secret plan to catch evil doers, whisk them away to our torture chambers, and hold them without charges until they told us where they stashed the WMDs was too macho to share with girls or, you know, wimps.
So, it's Cheney who should be tried along with the military, intelligence, and contract employees implicated in the murder and abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, not Rumseld or Bush. Also apallingly interesting is that the White House lawyers came up with a plan which even Ashcroft thought might have gone too far: one that didn't grant the defendants a presumption of innocence.
And here's an interesting bit o' info about one of those White House lawyers :
Yup. Fourteen kids. I know that has nothing to do with anything, but I just wanted to point it out. Tomorrow, the Times details just how well this super-secret Dirty Harry plan actually worked out . . . 5:03:31 AM |
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