Pro-Life Is Giving Away Stuff That’s Not Mine
If this country was pro-life, everything would be free. Nobody would have to pay for groceries, or medicine, or cars, or houses, or clothes, or internet access, or phone service, or massage chairs, or AA batteries, or parking, or anything else. All those things would be provided by the right-wing agenda if it was really […]
Has It Been Four Years Already?
Every four years the Winter Olympics shows up to remind us that “sport” is a very flexible word. Among the well established events like hockey, skiing, and skating (aka. hockey without goals or defenders), we find other competitions that were obviously intended as part of a college fraternity initiation. Like curling, for example. People slide […]
I Cheered For Your Approval
I am not saying I understood the Super Bowl halftime show. I am saying I support it. When the performance began and Bad Bunny appeared singing entirely in Spanish, a language I do not understand when spoken, let alone shouted through fireworks, I felt it was important to voice my approval. This was a moment […]
Battling Sin In People I Detest
Shout out to all the brave Christians expressing outrage over sin committed by people you don’t like! Your brilliant method of showing partiality has brought efficiency to my faith. By reserving moral alarm exclusively for people I detest, I’m able to keep sin politically useful without the icky feeling of personal conviction. You’ve changed my […]
Still Think Everybody Belongs At Your Church?
It seems that some of us believe a group of non-believers walking (storming) into a Minnesota church during a worship service is ‘persecution’. It’s really not. It’s the result of decades of outreach marketing. For years we’ve begged the world to show up. “Come and see.” “All are welcome.” “Bring your questions.” We put it […]
Rich People Need Your Help!
Dear Social Media Activist, Keep up the good work! Your outrage is improving people’s lives! Somewhere far above your tax bracket, human beings just like you (but with tons of money, power, and privilege) are benefiting from your efforts. You’re really making a difference! By reacting instantly and emotionally to whatever appears in your timeline, […]
Learn to Hate Learning
If you’re looking for a simple way to maintain ignorance, anger, and seething discontentment then I suggest you learn to hate learning. Learning works against your efforts to stay outraged. It’s nearly impossible to be perpetually enraged when your mind is constantly being distracted with new knowledge. Critical thinking becomes your default response and there […]
The Most Important Verse In Ephesians
To hear the way many people talk about it, chapter 5, verse 22 is the most important verse in the book of Ephesians. Everything before it is just warm-up material. Four and a half rambling chapters about grace, salvation, unity, reconciliation, holiness, forgiveness, humility, and the work of the Spirit, but we all know that […]
Actually, Nobody Critiques Anything
“If Jesus came to your church this week, half the saints would critique His sandals” This is what you might say when you haven’t been to church since 1978. Legend has it that decades ago, churches were inhabited primarily by judgmental snobs who dressed up on Sunday morning not because they revered God but because […]
Death Doesn’t Make Anyone Good
Here’s a strange thing we do when famous people die. We become their biographers. Not real biographers, obviously. More like emotional interns hastily assigned to the “Say Something Nice” department. Celebrity dies. Internet springs into action. Within minutes, people who never met them are overcome with the urge to publicly affirm that the deceased was […]