Someone Needs to Spank Her

I am sure by now everyone has heard about the lawyer that has proposed a law banning spanking of young children. If not you can google it. I wanted to chime in on some of my thoughts here. First, why do we keep making laws we can't, or don't, enforce. I mean unless you are dumb enough to admit to spanking your kid, or unfortunate enough to get caught on camera, it will be a your word against mine issue. Do we really want a jury or judge deciding if some neighbor that hates us, or our dumb kids trying to get even, are lying about us. We already have abuse laws, and DHS can't even keep up with those properly. Which brings me to my next point. Money. As in your MONEY collected through TAXES. If this law goes though in CA it will only spread, and eventually your state will make you pay to enforce it. (If they enforce it.) Let's look at some of the the expenses that come to mind: court cost of attorneys, court cost of juries, court cost of judges, build new prisons (we already don't have room for all those horrible weed smokers), pay law enforcement officers at the new prisons, new DHS employees (their work loads will explode), housing for the kids forever (parents will be found unfit to raise them), pay for anything and everything related to raising these kids. So do you really care if a kid gets a spanking or swat every now and then compared to not having their parents, and your increased tax dollars? Seriously, someone try to convince me this is a good plan.

Rage Against the Machine Reunion:
Not Just Another Bomb Track.

If you are a massive Rage fan, like myself, then you may alreadyknow about their reunion gig. Record label insiders leaked today that the news is way bigger than a reunion gig. After 3 albums it looks like Audioslave is done, and Rage is planning to announce a more permanent reunion at Coachella. God please let this be true.

Did I Say Something All That Offensive?

This is an excerpt from a discussion with a friend. It was two friends, but what I had to say has made one mad enough to no longer want to talk to me. What basically caused the conflict was me making a statement to the affect of most people have a political motivation (you could substitute power for political) in their actions, and that I would even extend that to the canonization of the Bible. So here is some of my response back to the one's questions.

I was trying to say I didn't think any theological idea was so set in stone that the community of God shouldn't be able to discuss and debate it. I feel like with the canonization of scripture, and everyone having there own bible, we have lost a sense of the fluidness of God. Everyone thinks they have Him pegged, but I think once we fit God in a round hole we no longer have a grasp on anything but an intellectual idol. I was reacting to your idea of just voting by scripture. Which I see as being voting by your interpritation of scripture. (Which we all do.) I have just been reacting badly to anything that sounds like someone thinks they hold a solidified view of God or his written word. Not that you do or don't. I just read your comment that way.

One example would be stealing. Seems simple by a litereal read, but.... When you actual look at the hebrew words used it is not. The words in hebrew apply specifically to taking of a persons livelyhood or means of living. Not taking someones basketball left outside. Unless they happen to be a professional basketball player. Not that I think our english rendering, and westernisd (greek/roman) view of the scripture is bad. I use it as an example of how we often think the Bible is so straight forward, and it is not.

I forget if you said you were or had read Velvet Elvis, but I love Rob Bell's statement, "God spoke, and the rest is commentary. Right." We have forgotten, or don't care, to engage in the discussion of who God is anymore. We want our theological statements in bullet points that can be screamed back and forth.

I will tell you something crazy. I have begun to wonder if Billy Graham has done more harm or good for the Kingdom. Does getting people to an altar with no life change even matter. How often did Christ focus on personnal sin, and who was that with? Legalistic religious folk. Generally he just said come hang out with me, and start doing what I do. I feel like I have been so focused on the cross, and personnal sin, I have totally missed Jesus.