Covering some lazy myths …
I’ve often come across people who deny or push aside Christianity simply because they hold to what I call ‘lazy myths’. ‘Chrisitianity can’t be true, because …’ is the typical indicator that a lazy myth is about to surface.
I’m defining a lazy myth as: something someone accepts as true without the application of logic. That is, they’ve clung to a hazy objection of some sort, without fully investigating the ‘logic’ behind that objection.
(Of course, now the danger therein, of course, is that I’m sure my head has a good number of lazy myths tucked away that every now and then poke their little heads up to haunt me. I would hope I have the grace enough to deal with them as they are made known… Continue reading ...
Poem: A cross to share
Inspired by a very succinct, short post from Duane’s Mind.
A cross to share
hope from death –
such a queer remedy
to a learned mind
of the kind
that yelled and cursed him
to the tree
and even the poor,
the decrepit and blind,
the thief and the proud
took delight in the cat
as it ripped and tore at his flesh
yes! i cried,
after all, what man is this
who can pierce my heart
with only a glancing look?
more! someone else continued,
and the next lash
grappled for purchase
across his back and side,
then flung away with a lick of the lips
it wasn’t until later –
regrettably, much later –
that the irons of 10 inches
drove… Continue reading ...
Making Good Friday ‘Better’
The Reverend John Evans, based on comments he made in an article on Thursday 20 March, would have you believe that Good Friday should be done away with. Apparently, it is no longer relevant, having lost any meaning outside of the Christian community. Wow. Talk about insight. Fancy a significant day in the Christian calendar not having much significance to non-Christians! Give the guy a… Continue reading ...
Throw the babies out with the baptism water
We ought not attend church with the view of ‘what can I get from this?’. Such a view is okay initially, say when you are a new Christian and are still finding your feet – but this is a state of infancy that must be shed.
This state demonstrates a dependency on what the church service has to offer you – like a sense of belonging or a sense of support or just purely a social network. But God calls us to move away from this dependency – we are to be more than children. We are called to be men (and women).
A child, rightly, is dependent on its parents for a good deal of many things. However, a good parent also knows a child must learn… Continue reading ...
Last Roll of the Dice for Gary Gygax
Mr Gary Gygax died on Tuesday morning, 2nd March 2008.
My high-school friends (who are also my old Dungeons & Dragons playing co-horts) may know who Gary Gygax is. My church-going friends might not – though I know the odd one or two who may be able to cast their memory back to younger days. For those of you playing at home, Gary Gygax was the co-founder of the… Continue reading ...
Poem: Jesus on a skateboard
Something of a slightly different flavour today. Hope you enjoy.
Jesus on a skateboard
This morning
I saw Jesus on a skateboard
In the middle of a wave of bodies
Pouring out from the high, proud doors
At the front of the church
After Sunday worship
Perhaps they mistook him for Moses
For they (de)parted in a wide V
As soon as they saw him
Either way
They moved from him
As though he embodied something unholy -
Scarey and alien and unclean… Continue reading ...
I’ve got a bad karma about this …
Ok. So maybe I jinxed things with my last post regarding karma, but I couldn’t help but see the humour in what transpired on the way home from the office today. It happened again!
That is, bang on evening peak-hour, our public train system hit another snag – the second in the same day – and this one crippled trains heading into the underground loop. Which of course means that I, along with oh, maybe several hundred fellow, faithful, fee-paying patrons had to make our way down a few city blocks to Melbourne’s iconic Flinders Street Station in order to get crammed onto a train for the ride home.
What made the situation even more funny was the fact that the train I caught at Flinders Street… Continue reading ...
Next stop: Karma Central
It’s a subtle reference, to be sure. Unless you’re in the clutches of the menace that is Melbourne’s public transport system, you are probably blissfully unaware. Fare evasion is nothing new to any transport system, but in Melbourne’s beloved train, tram and bus network, Metlink believe it’s a big deal. A big enough deal to presume guilt on its patrons before innocence. A big enough deal to launch a quasi-spiritual campaign against the ticket evaders and freeloaders that must ‘surely be the reason’ for our failed and troubled transport system. A’la karmacentral.com.au.
Their whole campaign revolves around the simple notion that if you don’t buy a ticket or otherwise avoid paying your way on public transport, somewhere, somehow, something bad is going to happen to you. Their billboard… Continue reading ...
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