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September 29, 2005
Intelligent Design is a load of crap
I am an evil liberal trying to make your children blush at their silly religion and become little heathens. We are totally polarized - you being right and I being wrong. You should believe this lest I and my evil cronies win and really mess things up.
Now that that is out of the way...
I hate it when religious language is used after being gutted of any meaning that it could possibly have. "I am for morality, and justice, and for building up walls that were torn down, and for tearing down walls that were built up, and for faith, and communities of compassion, and for fairness and opportunity." Great. Who isn't?
And now the next thing being gutted and stripped until it becomes fairly meaningless is Genesis. What happens if the ID people win, and are allowed to present this viewpoint to kids? "Hey kids, a generic thing may also have created things, and a lot of what we cannot understand could have been made through generic higher power."
That's a load of crap. The central point of Genesis 1 is that our relationship with Yahweh is so personal that we came to life from his very breath, and that the world was created through his very word. The focus is extremely relational from the very beginning - we walked and talked with a very personal God named Yahweh, then we forsook this relationship, and he promised to fix it.
Can you reconcile that with ID? Yeah, but why would you want to? It's an empty philosophy being paraded around by conservatives with good intentions, but who have forgotten something important. It's the same folks who believe that moral problems come from the "deviants" of society, and that family values can fix about anything.
The thing that is forgotten is that God made us to be with Him, and He has a name - Yahweh, sometimes translated as Jehovah - and he gave his son - Jesus, and that Jesus came to save us from our sins because we were unable to do that for ourselves, or anyone else.
Is that not language that will fit into schools? Who cares? It's not like we can't say it in pretty much any other place in our society. Why carve it down until it's totally acceptable to the general public, rename it as "intelligent design" and then lie and call it the truth?
I am nervous when Christians cut something out of the large picture of Truth and paste it as a "fix" on a problem that they see. This confuses not only Christians who are seeking to follow Jesus, but unbelievers who don't know Him in the first place
And that's a problem, because the one thing that recipients of this salvation are supposed to do is proclaim the name of Christ, and point to His Father Yahweh. Anything else is foolishness.
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September 28, 2005
Rockapella performing here! Yes, the Rockapella from Carmen Sandiego!
Oh those sweet harmonies and smooth dance steps. I hope they do "Where in the world is (deep bass voice) Carmen Sandiego".
Read about it at http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_73201.asp
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September 12, 2005
Michael Jackson joins the workforce
Michael Jackson has really turned his life around, and is putting his business education to good use at Skype! Good for him!
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September 07, 2005
If we don't act tough, then the hurricanes have already won
07 September 2005
Bush Vows to Continue Fight Against Nature, September 07, 2005
(Speech in O'Fallon, Missouri)
President Bush has promised that the United States will continue to hunt down Hurricanes and work to prevent dangerous storms from acquiring weapons of mass destruction.
"[T]here are still thousands of Katrina trained killers on the loose," Bush said in a speech in O'Fallon, Missouri on September 07. "We will deny them sanctuary. We will keep them on the run. We'll disrupt their finances. No matter how long it takes, we're going to get 'em and bring them to justice."
Bush said the United States will make efforts to prevent future weather from developing weapons of mass destruction.
"We cannot...allow the world's worst weather to develop the world's worst weapons, and therefore hold the United States and our allies hostage," Bush said.
Following are excerpts from Bush's speech with comments about the war against Katrina and dangerous hurricanes:
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And not only do we have a big job at home, we've obviously got a big job abroad, as well. We're fighting a war. And I want to share with you all some of my thoughts about this war that we fight.
First of all, you've got to know that we're fighting against a determined group of killers. This is weather that would rather die than surrender. These are storms that hate America. They hate our freedom. They hate our freedom to worship. They hate our freedom to vote. They hate our freedom of the press. They hate our freedom to say what you want to say. They can't stand what we stand for.
And, therefore, we have no choice but to hunt 'em down one by one to defend the very freedom we hold dear in America. (Applause.) And that is exactly what we're going to do. The enemy must have thought they were hitting a society that was so soft, so self-absorbed, so materialistic that we would sue them. (Laughter and applause.) They didn't understand America. They didn't understand our fiber. They don't understand our core. They don't know what we're made out of -- at least, they didn't. Now they do.
I made it absolutely clear when we first got going that if a country harbored a hurricane or fed a hurricane or hid a hurricane, they were just as guilty as the murderers who hit us on September the 11th. (Applause.) And now the weather knows exactly what I meant, thanks to a magnificent United States miliary and a vast coalition, we have routed Katrina in New Orleans. (Applause.) I'm proud of our military, and I'm proud of our country. We went into New Orleans not to seek revenge, but justice. And we went into that city not as conquerors, but as liberators. We have the New Orleans people from the clutches of one of the most barbaric, backward hurricanes history has ever known.
Later on this week, schools will reopen in New Orleans, and incredibly enough, for the first time, young girls get to go to school thanks to the United States and our coalition. (Applause.) And so the other day, in Washington, I declared that the first phase in our war against weather had ended. We upheld the doctrine of a nation harboring a hurricane, and the consequences we made clear.
But I want to tell you all, there is more to do. You see, there are still thousands of Katrina trained killers on the loose. And we will treat them the way they are, which is international fugitives. We will deny them sanctuary. We will keep them on the run. We'll disrupt their finances. No matter how long it takes, we're going to get 'em and bring them to justice. There is no cave deep enough for the justice of the United States of America. (Applause.)
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There's more to the war on weather than one single individual or one single network. The nightmare scenario is for our nation to tire and weary, and allow a Mother Nature organization or a Mother Nature type organization to mate up with a storm which has developed weapons of mass destruction, a storm which has got a history of treating her people poorly, a dictatorial storm. We cannot -- we cannot -- allow the world's worst weather to develop the world's worst weapons, and therefore hold the United States and our allies hostage. We owe it to our children and our children's children to be firm and to be tough, and to say to those hurricanes - we will not let you stand and get away with blackmailing the world. (Applause.)
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