And the C.S. Lewis Debate Continues

After sending an e-mail to our friend asking her to publish it to the loop, it never happened. A few days later I received an e-mail back with responses from Berit Kjos who has written extensive exposes on C.S. Lewis and others for her own words on these subjects go to www.crossroad.to. My comments were taken to mean things other than what I said although I will admit my ignorance on the timeline of when things in C.S. Lewis’ life happened. My response to the e-mail is as follows:

My statements were not ones of growing weary over the constant battle of ensuring the integrity of the gospel. My weariness is over how we treat those who are in error. Those who are called to be defenders of the truth are often to quick to condemn the person to hell if anything they state is in error. I too have been guilty of this in the past. I am not saying that we should not be diligent in pursuit of the truth. We often get in the mode of destroying the fallacies of the enemy that we unwittingly become his tool in that we destroy all in our path without regard. The very people we are trying to reach see the way we attack others and do not see our love, then they are turned away. It is one thing to point out if someone is in error, I am not one to shy away from that, it is another thing when we take those statements of error and speculate about their eternal destiny. Mr. Lewis may well have been a Christian, but had his thinking skewed by the influences in his life including a church that did not ascribe to tight literal conservative theology.

While I may have been wrong about the timeline (I relied on knowledge as told to me by others without doing my own research, my bad) it does not change my basic message. I will not ascribe C.S. Lewis to hell because he may have said a few things in error. The only thing that could place him there is if he did not accept Jesus as his Lord and Savior. Again this does not mean that we sit back and say that everything he wrote is correct. What it does mean is that if we find error we document it, verify it, expose it, and then expect our statements to be held to the same level of scrutiny.

We as Christians are tasked with two important things, One is to spread the gospel and reach others with the message of the unending, awe inspiring, wonderful love that He has for His greatest creation, the second is to defend the faith from attack both from without and from within. Our feeble, finite, and fallible brains cannot begin to wrap around even a tenth of a percent of His love for us and what measures he would go through to reach us, yet we are all too quick to destroy that which does not line up with our preconceived ideas in our attempt to defend His message. Who is more in the wrong? The person who says something in error or the person who attacks the person in error rather than exposing the error, if both lead to people being turned away from His love?

Merry Christmas

26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
30 And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
36 And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.
37 For with God nothing shall be impossible.
38 And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.

Luke 1: 26-38

1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.
2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
5 To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.
7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
15 And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
16 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.
17 And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.
18 And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.

Luke 2: 1-18

NFL Picks Week 16

At the end of week 15 I was 9-7 for the week and 117-58 for the year. Which gives me a 66.86 % correct rating.

Blue = win
Red = loss

Atlanta at Tampa Bay: Tampa Bay
Buffalo at Cincinnati: Cincinnati
Dallas at Carolina: Dallas
Detroit at New Orleans: New Orleans
Jacksonville at Houston: Jacksonville
N.Y. Giants at Washington: N.Y. Giants
Pittsburgh at Cleveland: Pittsburgh
San Diego at Kansas City: San Diego
San Francisco at St. Louis: St. Louis
Tennessee at Miami: Miami
Philadelphia at Arizona: Philadelphia
Indianapolis at Seattle: Seattle
Oakland at Denver: Denver
Chicago at Green Bay: Chicago
Minnesota at Baltimore: Minnesota
New England at N.Y. Jets: New England

Difster Hits A Home Run.

“Whether or not C.S. Lewis was a Christian is indeed irrelevant.
It cannot be argued however that the Chronicles are based heavily on Biblical theology. Is that theology complete and correct? It's allegorical fiction so it's not likely to be complete or correct.The books he wrote say nothing of his eternal destiny.
There is nothing that prevents me (other than a lack of talent and time) from writing a work of fiction that would, to a Muslim, seem inspired by Allah himself. Writing such a work would say nothing about what I actually believed or my eternal fate. As a Christian, it would be quite unexpected for me to write such a thing but not a point on which to judge my life or my beliefs.”
Difster

To say that this has been a hot topic of discussion around the Eaglewood household would be an understatement. It basically came down to this in our discussions: Lewis wrote from what he knew and what types of influences he had during his life. He was led to Christianity late in life and was a professor of English literature. As a mater of fact the first two books in the Narnia series were originally written before C.S. Lewis converted and then rewritten to reflect more of his Christian worldview. He was a member of the Church of England, which was heavily teaching theistic evolution at the time, and Greek, Roman, and Celtic mythology heavily influence English literature.

The books were meant as an allegory, a loose one but still an allegory. Is it heavy in Biblical theology? No it is not, but there are allot of Christian based stories that are out there that are not. Should we just simply not read or see anything that is not directly associated with the Word of G_d?

The thing that disturbed me the most was the apparent use of proof texting on C.S. Lewis’ works without the context of the whole of his work. Taking isolated passages out of anyone’s writing can be made to look bad upon the author. We as Christians should be very careful about this, and should understand this the most because our own book from G_d is taken out of context all the time. Does C.S. Lewis’ writings deserve scrutiny? I would be disappointed if they were not scrutinized, but I hate when people ascribe motive and intent to works of pure fiction, and then make assertions about a person’s salvation based upon those few texts. This especially in the light that he cannot either defend his position or make the claim that he was wrong about something he wrote early on in his walk. Could C.S. Lewis of had some mistaken thoughts and beliefs during his short walk as a believer? I am sure he did as we all do, we are all fallible, fallen beings and prone to getting things wrong, and viewing things through our own limited vision.

IS C.S. Lewis a Christian?

I know I said I was going to post on something else now but this has been on ongoing issue for sometime on an e-mail loop Birdie belongs to. Jimmie (also a member) piped in and said what has been on my mind concerning the issue and said it, quite frankly, better than I could.
There has been some controversy over C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia, and his other writings, all of this stemming from the recent release of The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. This debate has worked its way into whether or not C.S. Lewis is a Christian. I was getting quite disgusted and was considering saying something myself when Jimmie piped in. Here is what he said:

“Why do we kill the weak and wounded?
It was once argued that everyone who baptized infants went to hell.
It was once argued that each person who did not believe in handling snakes to prove salvation went to hell.
It was once argued that all Papists went to hell.
It was once argued that all communists went to hell.
It was once argued that all good men went to heaven.
It was once argued that all murderers went to hell.
I was once told to be careful of intellectually educated people because they were all liberal in their theology and Godless.
I was once told that anyone who did not believe in the virgin birth went to hell.
I was once told that no true Christian can have a Christmas tree in their home.
I was once told that none of the elect can own a television or radio.
I was once told a person who writes allegory and thoughts about their faith were hell bound if every word they ever wrote did not line up chapter and verse with Biblical text.
I was once told that if every believer did not believe the exact same thing that I believe for the exact same reasons I believe, those people are bound for hell.
I was once told in 1989 in East Texas that black people are cursed by God and are all doomed for hell even if they claim to be a Christian and the Holy Spirit demonstrates activity in their lives.
I was once told the Jesus Christ was not the only way to heave and that we Baptist just need to get over it.

Out of all of the above idiotic statements above, only one deserves attention from believers. I was once told that there are only three to five things that are necessary for a person to be a Christian. I was also told that everything but those three to five things were up for debate and interpretation. This is absolutely true. What does it really take for a person to go to heaven?
I believe the first thing required to be a convert is being called by God to become a convert. I believe the second thing required is to accept Jesus as the Lord and Savior of your life. I believe the third thing required to be a convert is accepting forgiveness of sins from God. There may be one or two more, but there are no more than that.

If I have a brother or sister in the faith who agrees on these three to five necessities of the faith, then what ever they believe about any of the arguable things should not matter to me. I am only concerned about their eternal destiny not their orthodoxy. I think orthodoxy is important, but not to the point of maligning another believer with charges of having heretical views concerning areas of acceptable debate.

That leads me to the latest attacks on C. S. Lewis. I am quite sure C.S. Lewis never claimed to write "Inspired Words from God." I am also quite sure he was an intellectual apologist. He never had a biblical education or ever stated that he was a Biblical scholar. Lewis like many normal people who placed their own thoughts down on paper is being deconstructed by those who do not understand the original intent. Directly assuming theological implications based in C. S. Lewis' writings is weak at best and insipid at worst. I am not an apologist for Lewis; but I am worried about many of the articles questioning his eternal destiny. Almost all theological orthodoxy is always up for debate on any given day, but questioning the eternal destiny of a> person based on debatable issues is not acceptable for believers, whether mature or immature in the faith.”
In His Grace,
Jimmie W. Kersh
Jimmiekersh.blogspot.com

All I can say is AMEN.

Christians and Abortion Part 1

Few things amaze me more than someone who can claim a Biblical argument in favor of abortion. Over the past couple of years my views on a lot things have changed, but one thing that has not changed is my view on human life. Even before finding Yeshua I had a basic understanding that killing an unborn child was wrong. This attitude was prevalent in my family life as a child even though I did not know it at the time. My parents divorce was caused by a breakdown in their relationship after my mother found out that a positive pregnancy test could mean that she had cancer and the only way it could be determined for sure would kill any child if she was pregnant.

I had a less than pleasant discussion with Ted over at Emunda when Erik had a discussion about abortion. Ted claims that abortion is moral and legal in the Bible because he claims the life does not begin until a person starts breathing based on Genesis 2:7. Well he hit one of my buttons, partially because of his claim, and partially due to his attitude. He came across as someone who has a lot of hatred for those who do not fall in line with his view on the world and religion. After several personal attacks from him I disengaged from the discussion, not because I cannot handle attack (the Lord knows how much personal attack I have gone through to think his petty attacks would hurt me), but because he repeatedly dodged the questions I presented.

Ok, on to the point of the matter. There are two main verses in the Word that people like to use to justify abortion. Exodus 21:22-25 and Genesis 2:7. This first is used as a justification on the premise that an unborn child’s life is worth less than an adult’s and the second is used to justify abortion on the grounds that a person does not have spirit until he / she is born. Both are incorrect interpretations of these verses. Lets take a look.

We will look at Genesis 2:7 first, as that is the verse that Ted used in his defense.

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul
KJV
The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
NIV
Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
NASB
And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
ASV
Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living being.
AMP

These are several translations of the same verse. And they all discuss the same point in that G_d gave life to Adam. Now in order to truly understand the meaning of this verse we have to look at it from the Hebrew perspective. Seeing as how I am just learning all of this now I asked someone for a little help on this. I was told that a more literal translation of the phrase “LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life” would be “"Yahweh blew into the nose of the dirt he had assembled." It is not a literal bending over the man with His mouth to man's nose, it is a Hebrew way of saying, "Yahweh brought breath into the nose of the dirt He had assembled." The understood meaning for those Moses wrote this to would be, "He caused life to be in the dirt He assembled together."”

With looking at this from a Hebrew perspective we can see that there was no life at all; Adam was basically mud. No heartbeat, no brain activity, no movement of any kind, just a lump of clay. Then G-d miraculously breathed LIFE into His creation. The important part is that the clinical first breath is not what was being discussed in this verse but that Adam was brought to life. His heart started beating, his brain started functioning, and all things in his body started working and moving. Taking a breath is not a determining factor of whether or not we are alive.

The logical problem with the argument about the breath issue is this, is life in existence without the lungs taking in air voluntarily? The answer is a most definitive yes.

I will discuss the verses in Exodus Christians and Abortion Part 2.

NFL Picks Week 15

At the end of week 14 I was 13-3 for the week and 108-51 for the year.

Blue = win
Red = loss

Tampa Bay at New England: New England
Kansas City at N.Y. Giants: Kansas City
Denver at Buffalo: Denver
Arizona at Houston: Arizona
Carolina at New Orleans: Carolina
N.Y. Jets at Miami: Miami
Philadelphia at St. Louis: St. Louis
Pittsburgh at Minnesota: Pittsburgh
San Diego at Indianapolis: Indianapolis
Seattle at Tennessee: Seattle
San Francisco at Jacksonville: Jacksonville
Cincinnati at Detroit: Cincinnati
Cleveland at Oakland: Oakland
Dallas at Washington: Dallas
Atlanta at Chicago: Chicago
Green Bay at Baltimore: Green Bay

Christmas Traditions

With it being ten days until the celebration of our Lord’s birthday I thought I discuss Christmas traditions. Over the years it seems that different cultures have added to and taken away from things that have been done at this time of year. Now I am not going to claim to be some kind of expert on Christmas but Birdie and I have over the years done different things and have found what we think truly reflects what Christmas is supposed to be about.

1. We have stopped putting up a tree. Now I know for some this is the first sign that we are loons. Some people come out and claim that decorating a tree is forbidden in the Bible, but my study of the verses used to claim this shows that this is more about making wooden idols than decorating trees, although I do have problems with a certain song that worships the Christmas tree. We have simply found that it is not what we want to do due to how we present our gifts.

2. We place our gifts around a nativity. When we decided to stop putting up a tree we decided to place the gifts we gave the children around a nativity scene. There is some symbolism here. Fist we limit the number of gifts to three symbolizing the three gifts given to Jesus when the Magi visited Him. Secondly it teaches the children a lesson about not only laying our burdens before Yeshua but also to lay all of the good things we get in life at His feet. Thirdly the limit on the number of gifts teaches the children that the holiday is not about greed and what they are going to get.

3. Santa does not visit our household. This is the one we get the most flack over. This is also one of the first Christmas decisions we ever made. To begin with we made the pact not to lie to our children, and I do not care how you couch it or rationalize it telling your children Santa exists is lying to them. The practical reason being is that if our children knew we lied to them about Santa who they cannot see they have a reason to doubt Yeshua’s existence as well. There are other studies in greed and such that can be discussed as well but that was our primary reasoning.

Poking at Anthills

Living here in Texas you get to learn about a wonderful little creature called the fire ant. For those of you that live in the north and have never had the pleasure of meeting one of these creatures consider yourselves blessed. These ants have a nasty temper and will attack in mass with only the slightest of provocation, and leave the nastiest of welts after you have been bitten repeatedly. They also have readily recognizable mounds. As a child I liked to stir up these ants from time to time. You had to be careful and use a long stick. From the point that you stuck the stick in onward you had them in an angry frenzy. It was quite fun at least from the perspective of a young boy. It was not so much fun when I got bit, or when I picked the wrong kind of anthill and the ants in it would scurry but not to the point of the fire ants, or if the ants had moved to a new mound.

Why do I bring this up? Because I have been trying to poke the stick at the proverbial anthill just to see if I could get a reaction from a particular “fire ant” atheist and his friends over at Vox’s. You see this person made the claim that a person cannot be a libertarian and a Christian because Christianity is a might = right system and that the self-ownership platform is contrary to the so-called Christian belief that we are either owned by G_d or by Satan.

First off his claim of might = right is not true to Christian teachings. Although we believe that G_d created the universe, has ordered everything in its place, has set the rules, and has the power to enforce those rules; we also know that he created free will, which allows us to refuse to follow those rules. If we choose to go our own way then we will suffer the consequences of our actions because we in our imperfection cannot coexist with G_d in His perfection. But a way has been provided for us that we do not have to be destroyed but that we can coexist with our creator through the perfect sacrifice of His Son.

It is also a misconception that G_d “owns” us. This is also due to free will; if G_d owned us then we would be little automations that did whatever He pleased. Free will allowed for us to show our love for our Creator but also allowed for us to reject Him. The place where “ownership” comes in is where the person who has freely surrendered his life to Yeshua now realizes that his life has been bought with the blood shed for him. That means he has freely given control of his life to G_d and accepts the price paid for it.

Nowhere does this contradict libertarian views. What it does do is challenge the atheistic viewpoint of those who would deny that G_d does exist. Using the very definition that the poster at Vox’s used I will show that a Christian can be a libertarian.

“Libertarianism is a modern political philosophy [1] that strongly advocates the maximization of individual rights, private property rights, and free market capitalism... Libertarians see themselves as consistent supporters of maximum freedom and minimum state intervention in all human activities (where "freedom" is defined as negative liberty)... Libertarians hold that no one should be restrained by initiatory coercion... Libertarians believe that individuals should have the liberty to make their own moral choices as long as they do not use coercion to prevent others from having that same liberty.” (emphasis mine)
From Wikipedia.

As a Christian believing in free will I do not think that a Christian can force another person to live by the moral code set forth by G_d in the Bible, but we do have an obligation to warn people of the consequences of their actions if they do not heed what the Creator has said. This fits right into libertarian views. I could go on more but this post is already long so I will finish for now, but if someone wishes for me to expound further let me know.

BTW the poster in question never answered any of my questions and was eventually banned from Vox’s site due to breaking one of Vox’s very few rules. So I left from this anthill a little frustrated because I was not the only one to ask the same basic question just to be ignored. For those who are curious here is my question:

What I wonder is if you are truly libertarian then why do you care what some other person who claims to be a libertarian thinks? Is not one of the basic tenants of libertarianism about each person living as he sees fit? So if you choose atheism and I choose to live my life following Jesus what does it matter to you? The only difference here would be that I am concerned for your immortal soul and you don’t care because we are all going to end up as worm food.

Random Thoughts

I have felt inspired by a couple of posts I have read today one from my mentor Jimmie and one from Tom Cotter. Both of them separately were expounding on similar ideas from different angles. Jimmie was talking about the church having cocooned itself from the world for decades and Tom was discussing being out-of-control Christians.

Jimmie's post hit me personally due to the amount of time I have spent over the years cocooning myself from the world and I am now coming out of that cocoon and desiring to be the out-of-control Christian Tom talks about on his blog.

To be completely sold out for Yeshua forsaking all and taking up my cross is what I desire to do now, and I feel a little frustrated that things are not moving as fast as I would like them to. I feel like I have a lot to say to the bride about The One Who Loves Her and here I am stuck working two jobs and trying to study the materials that Jimmie has given me so far. I have portions of sermons that bounce through my head all the time and I need to start writing them down and collecting my thoughts. I think that may be the direction my blog goes for a while.

I am really rambling now so I will finish for the night.

May Yeshua bless you all.

Answered Prayer

Some time back I mentioned some tension in the family between Birdie and her parents stemming from when we announced we were going to have our fourth child. We were very concerned about what would happen when they found out about the fifth one that is on the way.

They came to visit today and I was not home in case there were problems. When they arrived Sneefert informed his Grandma on the way in the door that Mama was going to have a baby. Things went very well from there and they are actually seeing the child as the blessing and gift that he/she is. They also understand our position on letting G_d decide our family size as well. All around this was a good visit. And we have no more worries about Birdie’s family being against this child. They even like the names we have picked out.

Wings and Prayers

My lovely wife is a very talented and intelligent woman. She also has a great sense of humor. I hear her talking around the house about this and that and I am constantly telling her if she started her own blog other people would appreciate what she has to say. Every time I do so she tells me “Nobody wants to hear what I have to say.” I have also consistently told her that was not the case.

So what happens? After reading a post on Difster’s blog about the best of his readers blogs, and coming to the conclusion that she is the only person over 5 with internet access that does not have a blog she starts one.

Go and check her out and make her feel welcome. BTW I love what she named her blog.
Wings and Prayers

NFL Picks Week 14

At the end of week thirteen I was 13-3 for the week and 95-48 for the year.

Blue = win
Red = loss

Chicago at Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh
Cleveland at Cincinnati: Cincinnati
Houston at Tennessee: Tennessee
Indianapolis at Jacksonville: Indianapolis
New England at Buffalo: New England
Oakland at N.Y. Jets: Oakland
St. Louis at Minnesota: Vikings
Tampa Bay at Carolina: Tampa Bay
N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia: N.Y. Giants
San Francisco at Seattle: Seattle
Washington at Arizona: Cardinals
Baltimore at Denver: Denver
Kansas City at Dallas: Dallas
Miami at San Diego: San Diego
Detroit at Green Bay: Green Bay
New Orleans at Atlanta: Atlanta

Update:

I am 13 and 3 for the second week in a row. My prediction ability on football is getting allot better .

!!!!!Thought Crimes Alert!!!!!

Billy D was the one who kept us up to date on this stuff up until now but with the beloved IDV closing it’s doors it falls to someone else to alert the masses, I guess that will be me as I have the info on this one.

HR 2662 is the bill. Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2005

Go here for the text of the bill and look at it for yourself. Once you get there type in “HR 2662 IH” under the word / text search.

This is the same kind of hate crimes bill that was introduced by the ADL in Canada that has caused some free speech problems there. Contact your congress critters and let them know how you feel about this kind of infringement on our free speech rights.

For more info you can go here.

The War on Christmas

I have been contemplating this subject for some time especially in light of my employment a Sears. Sears / KMart are the chief offenders in the refusal to admit what this holiday season is all about. The area I work in covers the lawn and garden area, which includes the Christmas decorations and Christmas trees. These are the only things that will get mentioned with the word “Christmas”, no place else in their advertising is Christmas mentioned. This is all to set up what happened the other day at work.

Even though Sears will not mention Christmas I make it a habit to wish the customers I work with a Merry Christmas. This is something I hold to on an almost religious fervor, I have even been thanked by a customer for acknowledging Christmas. A couple of days ago I am finishing up with a customer and wishing them a Merry Christmas when I hear from behind me a small accented voice say “you can’t say that.” I turn around and say, “Excuse me?” and the “twerp” repeats, “you can’t say that.” First off, this is not a manger he is one of a group of people at work I call the twerps*, and I have seen no written policy that states an associate cannot say Merry Christmas. I am now waiting for a manger to tell me I cannot say it. I am almost itching for a fight, because I will refuse to stop wishing customers Merry Christmas. They will have to fire me to get me to quit saying it. Then the real fight will begin, because then I will have a case for religious discrimination. I am willing to use the same venues the secular progressives use to destroy Christmas to protect the right of people to say Merry Christmas.


* The twerps are a group of teenage to early twenties kids who work in my department and are there only because the job pays more than fast food. To be honest if one of these near hoodlums came up to me and asked if I needed any help I would tell them to go get one of the adults to help me. (I know this is not very Christian of me but every time I get near one of these “kids” who have not worked a hard day in their lives I get quite disgusted)

Update:
After receiving an e-mail from the AFA I have found out that Sears is backing off of it’s anti-Christian bias. They are going to be putting up Merry Christmas signs in their stores. WoHoo!!!!!!!!

NFL Week 13

At the end of week twelve I was 9-6 for the week and 82-45 for the year.

Blue = win
Red = loss

Atlanta at Carolina: Carolina
Buffalo at Miami: Buffalo
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh: Cincinnati
Dallas at N.Y. Giants: Dallas
Green Bay at Chicago: Chicago
Houston at Baltimore: Baltimore
Jacksonville at Cleveland: Jacksonville
Minnesota at Detroit: Minnesota
Tampa Bay at New Orleans: Tampa Bay
Tennessee at Indianapolis: Indianapolis
Arizona at San Francisco: Arizona
Washington at St. Louis: Washington
Denver at Kansas City: Denver
N.Y. Jets at New England: New England
Oakland at San Diego: San Diego
Seattle at Philadelphia: Seattle