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The Weepy Time Approaches
My dad told me today “When you come back, Shaelyn will be 7. She’ll be in 2nd grade. You’ll miss her first day of school.”
Shay is currently in preschool (and she’ll actually only be in first grade when I come back due to her September birthday), but the idea of coming back to a completely different person is just sad to me.
Dakota, 6 month old, barely a person Dakota will be nearly 3 when I come back. That assumes everything goes alright with her heart for 2 years.
Coming back to changed adults doesn’t seem so bad, but there’s so much growing and changing for my nieces to do. It just makes me sad.
I can just tell I’m going to start crying about missing everyone in the next week.
I think this every day…Authors Phil Zuckerman and Dan Cady wrote:
Jesus unambiguously preached mercy and forgiveness. These are supposed to be cardinal virtues of the Christian faith. And yet Evangelicals are the most supportive of the death penalty, draconian sentencing, punitive punishment over rehabilitation, and the governmental use of torture.
Jesus exhorted humans to be loving, peaceful, and non-violent. And yet Evangelicals are the group of Americans most supportive of easy-access weaponry, little-to-no regulation of handgun and semi-automatic gun ownership, not to mention the violent military invasion of various countries around the world.
Jesus was very clear that the pursuit of wealth was inimical to the Kingdom of God, that the rich are to be condemned, and that to be a follower of Him means to give one’s money to the poor. And yet Evangelicals are the most supportive of corporate greed and capitalistic excess, and they are the most opposed to institutional help for the nation’s poor - especially poor children.
They added:
They hate anything that smacks of ‘socialism’, even though that is essentially what their Savior preached. They despise food stamp programs, subsidies for schools, hospitals, job training - anything that might dare to help out those in need. Even though helping out those in need was exactly what Jesus urged humans to do. In short, Evangelicals are that segment of America which is the most pro-militaristic, pro-gun, and pro-corporate, while simultaneously claiming to be most ardent lovers of the of the Prince of Peace.
They concluded:
Of course, conservative Americans have every right to support corporate greed, militarism, gun possession, and the death penalty, and to oppose welfare, food stamps, health care for those in need, etc. - it is just strange and contradictory when they claim these positions as somehow ‘Christian’. They aren’t.
I wonder if Jesus doing a facepalm looks like Paul Revere doing a facepalm.
If Jesus was in a grave, he’d be rolling over.
Donald Trump and Sarah Palin eat pizza wrong — with a knife and fork. But we’d expect nothing less.
(via the New York Daily News)
THIS IS UNAMERICAN
