How did I get in this handbasket?
November 25, 2008 by Laura | Trackback URI
Where am I going and how did I get in this handbasket pretty much sums up my (entirely unjustified) attitude today. Oh, sure, I can focus my attention on all the crappy news, especially this bizarre idea that God will send manna from heaven if the U.S. suffers a famine. Because God loves American Christians better than Christians in Darfur and North Korea, I guess. Good grief. Is this the next evolution of prosperity theology? I believe some wacky church leader might preach such a thing – after all, Fred Phelps calls himself a minister of the gospel too – but can we just reject this immediately before it gets any traction?
On the other hand, if I spent my time focusing on the fact that Joel Osteen is an idiot, I’d miss out on cheerful tidbits like this: the ranks of abortion providers are diminishing. And the fact that a guy who inadvertently renounced his faith and asked Muslims for forgiveness (in defiance of the historical record) now demands an apology from James Dobson for a fictionalized “letter” he sent out before the election. That’s rich. [On that asking for forgiveness for the Crusades, Al Mohler summed it up: “I just have to wonder how intellectually honest this is,” he said. “Are these people suggesting that they wish the military conflict with Islam had ended differently - that Islam had conquered Europe?” Ha!]
And once again, the gospel is affirmed by science: the bible instructs us to be thankful in all things, and research has shown that it’s even good for our health.


Like an aging monument, democracy itself is crumbling.

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