I just went to the grocery to get lunch, and ended up with a turkey and cheese sandwich (are you shocked?) and wanted some rice cakes to complement my meal. I love love love the carmel flavored ones. But…I decided to try something new.
Bad idea.
I got the sea salt flavored ones. Delicious, right? NO.
Terrible decisions. Never have them. Looks like I am going to have to eat those reserve cheetos, after all. Menawhile, Never trust the soy. This is what we’ve learned.
I hate red cup before it’s Christmas. And here it is….
No one warned me. It’s going to be a long Christmas-when-it’s-not-Christmas season.
Also: I’ll have you note that once again, year 2 in a row, I am sweating on “Discovering-red-cup” day.
I was browsing CNN, and came across an article:
“Senate approves resolution apologizing for slavery.”
The Senate, our senate, 100 men and women from 50 states, took time out of this important, important year and cycle to discuss a bill to apologize to African-Americans for slavery.
Now, I understand that slavery was horrible, and wrong. And I understand that the US government didn’t think so until after the Civil War, and even then, some people still didn’t see the problem. I know that people’s ancestors were slaves, and other people’s ancestors were slave owners. I understand this.
I just don’t understand why it matters right this minute. People are sorry, people apologize. I, personally, wasn’t there, and didn’t have slaves, and although I am sorry that people were ever enslaved, I get offended when anyone says “Well Americans” or “You people” had slaves.
I didn’t. You didn’t. No one we know did, in fact. And there are more important things that are happening right now — while we are all living, and breathing — than a past slavery. Slavery that none of us participated in. 100 men and women from 50 states are apologizing for something they didn’t do. Something that other men and other women did more than a hundred years ago.
I recognize that it is important. And that the US government apologizing is important. But I question if now is the time to be spending time on this. If we spend time on the past, we’ll miss the present, and have to apologize, again, in the future.
How do you all feel?
I was biking home and I was handed a flyer from a woman wearing a shirt that said “Ex-slave.” I was intrigued. I looked at the flyer after I parked my bike, and it had a picture of a girl with a shirt on that says “Ex-homosexual.” It was a flyer for the Passion for Christ Movement. I was so offended I wanted to blog about it, but then I went to the website to find out more.
Now, nearly 40 minutes later, I am fuming. I watched most of the video on the home page, and it is a bunch of “ex-homosexuals” who are telling people that 1.) Homosexuality is not natural and 2.) You (too!) can be delivered and stop being homosexual.
What? The evidence they use is from the Bible, which like, OK, fine, but they decide multiple times in the video that because science has NOT proven otherwise, homosexuality is wrong.
They are answering common questions of the homosexual community, and one of them is that people are “born” gay. They discuss how CNN did a story which asked the question, “Are you born gay?” and the answer was, “I don’t know for sure…there is no gay gene.” But all they repeated was, “there is no gay gene, there is no gay gene.” Not the line that said, “I don’t know for sure.” I want people to know that I did a quick search, and found this article quickly, which says that scientists are not sure, still. So…nice try, video.
Moving on, the next part of the video assumes they have proven that you decide to be gay, and that you’re not born with it.
Another part of the video said that “our bodies weren’t meant for this and you have HIV and AIDS shooting up through the roof in homosexual communities.” Umm, last time I checked you didn’t get HIV or AIDS from being gay. You got it from someone else that had HIV or AIDS, and you can get it if you’re straight, too.
Later in the video, it mentions that a lesbian couple was raising children, and one of their children, a boy, wore bracelets and pretended to wear earrings. The video claimed this was evidence that children are not to be raised by lesbians in the first place, because they have no male influence. To this I ask:
*What about single parents, moms or dads?
*What about people who have a mom and a dad and grow up to be gay?
Then they go on to talk about how in the story of Sodom and Gomorroah the sin of the cities was homosexuality. Jewish texts dispute this fact, but that’s another rant for another day.
They also mention how National Geographic found the cities, and proved that they were destroyed, and found syphilis and clamidia in the soil. Which are STDs that are found in the gay community. Thus proving that the sin of the city was homosexuality. Oh, but wait…straight people get these, too…shoot…
IN ADDITION, National Geographic clearly states:
Some scholars place the Biblical cities in current-day Iraq, at Mashkin-Shapir; others posit that the cities were buried under the Dead Sea. The remains of these cities have never been found, though some believe the strongest candidates for Sodom and Gomorrah can be found in the archaeological remains of the Early Bronze Age cities of Babe Edh-Dhra and Numeira, to the East of the Dead Sea.
So, they did NOT in fact find the cities, nor did they prove that they were destroyed by God.
These types of “Christians” are the ones who offend me. The ones who — like in this video — compare the “natural” feeling of being gay to the “natural” feelings of murders and rapists. If is so offensive to see six or eight twentysomethings preaching about why they know being gay is wrong. Because they know. They can’t even get their facts straight, let alone know what God means by everything in the Bible they read that has been translated from ancient texts in languages none of them can read, written by men we’re supposed to know and believe were rightous and wrote only the word of God.
It’s a sad day when people who call themselves Christian try to tell others they know what God meant by something that was written down by men who also thought they knew what God meant by something.
I guess all I can do is pray for those people.
Can we talk about…how we’ve found “patient zero” and now need everyone to know his name, where he lives, and what he looks like?
I know that swine flu isn’t a huge deal. More people die from the regular flu every year. But it’s new, shiny, sexy for the media, and so they must cover it.
Meanwhile, they have decided to exploit this poor little boy–a mere 5 years old– by publishing his face all over the news.
Don’t people realize that some people have lost family members, relatives, etc., and that maybe they are angry? I hope to God that people realize it’s not this boy’s fault that he got the disease first, and that it spread from him, but people are irrational in times of grief, and sadness, and I cannot help but think maybe we should have let that story die before it hit CNN’s website…