Regenerate Our Culture

... and so I says to the guy "There is no punch line, I just needed a way to start this post about Regenerate Our Culture!"

That's right folks, I don't place buttons at the top of my page for nothin'! It's gotta be something special, like Worldview Academy or really awesome music for me to place a button up that high... and even the music only has a slim chance.

So what's Regenerate Our Culture about? Well, it's part online magazine and part aggregator of the best recent posts from seventeen teenage bloggers, all aimed at bringing our culture back to a Biblical worldview. It seems that the powers that be in ROC even chose yours truly as one of those bloggers! Thanks, ROC!

Anyway, check them out! ROC's a great resource for keeping up with all the blogs that you always wanted to read, but never had time for. So get over there!

And while I'm posting... I might be considering changing the focus of my blog... I really don't know at this point. You see, while I'm still interested in politics, I have had an increased interest in theology and church structure for some time now, and I am considering writing more about that. I don't know though... I'm all confused, you see, but none of it really matters because I haven't posted enough lately. Yay for procrastination.

Anyway, if you can think of anything you'd like me to blog about, whether it's a broad subject like theology or Calvinism (Lord help me), or something specific like Bush's ports deal or Perseverance of the Saints, let me know... Maybe that will motivate me to write.

Unless, of course, you'd rather I just didn't write. I could understand that too... This is a very welcoming blog when it hasn't been written in for a month and the last comment came from my little brother. That's right, things are always exciting around here...

Okay, I'll stop now...

Terri Schiavo Blogburst

In keeping with Agent Tim's blogburst about Terri Schiavo, I have decided to polish and re-post something I wrote back when she was being starved. I continue to be appalled that the same justice system that is so hesitant to sentence a criminal to death would so gleefully sentence a handicapped woman to starvation, especially in the absence of any concrete proof that she would wish it.

Whose testimony condemned Terri to death? Why, it was the testimony of her husband Michael, the very same man who testified in an earlier malpractice trial that Terri would NOT want to die, and the very same man who stood to gain even more money as Terri's guardian, should she die. Don't you find it funny (or sickening) then, that Michael stopped Terri's therapy after he won that malpractice trial? Is it not just a little suspicious that Michael tried to deny his wife treatment for an infection after he had been awarded the money?

But enough of that... what does our culture's willingness to starve a brain-damaged woman say about us?

Just asking...

If I saw a homeless guy on the street, and remarked in passing "I just couldn't live like that," does that mean I would starve myself if I were to lose all my money?

If I saw an amputee, and said "I'd rather just die if I were to lose a limb," does that mean that you would order doctors to starve me, should I lose my right arm?

Beware the culture that embraces death. Our love and respect for life has dwindled so much that many Americans want to kill a brain-damaged lady simply because they think they "wouldn't want to live like that." These people, some of them Christians, say they would rather die themselves than be brain damaged... Yet there is no love or respect for God's gift of life there; just the search for an easy way out.

We as a culture have become so dependent upon prime living conditions that we don't know how to weather any storms. We're a country of sissies, pansies and wimps; we don't see life as something worth fighting for, because we fear the battle more than the loss. If something not handed to us on a silver platter, we are too arrogant to get it ourselves, and if we don't get it, we'd rather die.

What does it say about the state of the country when everyone has the mindset of a three-year-old?

And these people are so proud of their convictions.

Let There Be Humor!

I read this. And then I laughed.

A lot.

Then I read this. I laughed some more.

Then I decided to write an uninspired post.

So what if that's the story of my day?