Well, I have completely slacked off on this blog! I'm not sure anyone reads it anyway, but I figured I would try to revive it. Here's your (or my students') current events quiz for the week:
1) What happened to the 700 Billion dollar "bail out" deal on Monday?
2) What hurricane hit Canada early this week?
3) Where do some generals want to send more US troops?
4) What happend to the 700 Billion dollar "bail out" deal in the Senate?
5) Who debated each other on Thursday night?
One interview I saw online this week made me curious as to how people can sound so pompous while clearly showing their own lack of understanding. The man being interviewed confidently declared that believing in a specific God (apparently being agnostic is okay) is a sign of danger. God, according to this man, is not revealing Himself except for a few books used by different religions. The books disagree with each other, and the man being interviewed took special time to mock some stories in the Bible. He then went on to say that religion was okay for people in the past because they didn't know any better. For example, they "didn't know where babies came from." Ironically, it is the Bible (even from a purely secular reading) that shows how stupid this statement is. In the first book, God shows that Sarah understood that if Abram was to have a son, and it wasn't happening through her, then he needed to sleep with another woman. Later on, Judah loses a son because he refuses to father a son for his dead older brother. How does he refuse? Read Genesis to find out. It proves he had a pretty good idea of what would produce a child. The pagan fertility festivals were focused around sex. It seems like they had a pretty good understanding that sex led to babies.
But anyway, I just couldn't stand the boundless arrogance of this man who has his own TV show! Why is it that people choose to listen to such nonsense? I think the unfortunate answer is that most people are not checking up on the facts, but simply trusting a man who sounds very confident in his incredible (literally 'without credit') statements.
Oh well. It's time to focus on the Fall Holy Days and God's coming Kingdom, not the distractions of this world.
1) What happened to the 700 Billion dollar "bail out" deal on Monday?
2) What hurricane hit Canada early this week?
3) Where do some generals want to send more US troops?
4) What happend to the 700 Billion dollar "bail out" deal in the Senate?
5) Who debated each other on Thursday night?
One interview I saw online this week made me curious as to how people can sound so pompous while clearly showing their own lack of understanding. The man being interviewed confidently declared that believing in a specific God (apparently being agnostic is okay) is a sign of danger. God, according to this man, is not revealing Himself except for a few books used by different religions. The books disagree with each other, and the man being interviewed took special time to mock some stories in the Bible. He then went on to say that religion was okay for people in the past because they didn't know any better. For example, they "didn't know where babies came from." Ironically, it is the Bible (even from a purely secular reading) that shows how stupid this statement is. In the first book, God shows that Sarah understood that if Abram was to have a son, and it wasn't happening through her, then he needed to sleep with another woman. Later on, Judah loses a son because he refuses to father a son for his dead older brother. How does he refuse? Read Genesis to find out. It proves he had a pretty good idea of what would produce a child. The pagan fertility festivals were focused around sex. It seems like they had a pretty good understanding that sex led to babies.
But anyway, I just couldn't stand the boundless arrogance of this man who has his own TV show! Why is it that people choose to listen to such nonsense? I think the unfortunate answer is that most people are not checking up on the facts, but simply trusting a man who sounds very confident in his incredible (literally 'without credit') statements.
Oh well. It's time to focus on the Fall Holy Days and God's coming Kingdom, not the distractions of this world.
posted by Mark at 7:03 PM
2 Comments:
I still check this blog.
For the quiz:
1. It failed
2. Kyle
3. Overseas
4. It strikes back
5. some politicians
That's more vague than you intended, hu?
They were in the bronze age by the third generation.
Where *do* babies come from?
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