t the 1992 Democratic National Convention, Bill Clinton made an unexpected foray into the realm of interpretive exegesis, with this rendition of 1 Corinthians 2:9 -- Clinton said, "In the words of the Bible, `Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which can be accomplished by working together.'"
Ah, that's what's important -- working together. But we are surprised that he neglected the central message of Romans 9, which is, of course, the importance of having a nationalized health care system.
The Presbyterian Church (USA) is one step closer to ordaining a lesbian as a pastor. A church-wide decision on this may come as early as October.
We have often wondered what the blind who have been led into a ditch by the blind do after they get there. Now we know.
The copy for a recent advertisement for a Christian band read this way -- "One Bad Pig/Blow the House Down! They're loose again! And this time it's LIVE, unbridled mayhem. In their most daring release yet, One Bad Pig begs the question, why just shake the house, when you can blow the house down?! On stage screaming, stomping, slam dancing, stage diving, pleading and praying. It's the absolute wildest Christian concert ever recorded, and we've captured every wallowing, squealing moment on video!"
Yahoo!
A recent ad for the New Oxford Review states that, among other things, they "probe the wisdom offered not only by the Bible and Church fathers, but also by such giants as St. Francis, Aquinas, Dante, Kierkegaard, Newman, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Bonhoeffer, Barth, Niebuhr, Gandhi, Buber, Auden, Eliot, Silone, Maritain, Merton, Schumacher, Thomas More, Dorothy Day, C.S. Lewis, Martin Luther King, Flannery O'Connor, Mother Teresa, and Archbishops Romero and Tutu.
We are not sure that we would even want to make an omelette this way.
The Christian Statesman reports that Steven Schlissel, a minister in the Christian Reformed Church, has been deposed in response to Schlissel's opposition to the liberalism stampede in the CRC.
Tolerance triumphs again!
A medical doctor we know informs us that he had to quit doing urinalysis tests in his office. This was because OSHA had informed him that he had to purchase some expensive equipment in order to dispose of the urine.
The toilet could no longer be used because the urine from the samples was a "toxic substance." Failure to meet these standards would result in a $30,000 fine.
We wonder if we could get someone to declare bureaucracy a toxic substance.
U.S. News and World Report reports on how the education establishment, not content with our current levels of schooled illiterates, is pushing to turn ignorance into a virtue. The movement is called the whole-language movement, and is seeking to get the kiddos even farther away from the learning of phonics than they are now. Students are encouraged to just do it -- for example, students would be praised for writing, "i wt to the ntrl hstre muzem wnr sw sm butfl rks and gms." One advocate of this triumphal ignorance stated that teaching phonics amounts to the "memorization of nonsense."
The ABC's are only nonsense to those who don't know what they mean. Pedogogical stupidity is almost at its zenith.
As we went to press, voters in Colorado and Oregon had not yet decided on whether or not to remove special civil protections for sodomites and lesbians. A rollback of "gay rights" is on the ballot in both states, and if God is merciful, such measures will start showing up elsewhere as well. U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder of Colorado has accused supporters of these measures of "preaching hatred."
But, of course, if ethics are relative, then what is wrong with preaching hatred? Maybe we are born this way. Maybe our fundamentalism is genetic. Maybe gay-bashers need to come out of the closet and form support groups.
Complaints about the political attacks on Hillary Clinton have surfaced. It is considered despicable that a candidate for high office would attack, or allow others to attack, the wife of his opponent. The response to this is that this is a traditional rule, formed back in the days before libertines threw the traditional family into the blender. If Hilllary seeks to stand independently of her husband, there should be no surprise if she is independently attacked.
So we think that if Hillary can't stand the heat, she should get back in the kitchen.
And for more on the education front, Forbes magazine reports that the Japanese are quietly marketing here mathematics "cram schools" where American students can actually learn the subject!
Does the NEA want us to put a tarriff on this?
