Amen! To Change.

I fancy myself to be open to change where it's appropriate; but, religious matters are very complex and deep-seated and must be approached very carefully.

For example, I suggested to the preacher that no one voices approval and agreement with a vocal, Amen! like in times past. And not wanting to be the kind that grouses without making some positive offering of a solution, I told him that sometime soon I was going to make it a point to sit up in my pew, raise my arm high in gesture, and shout out a hardy "You The Man!"

Civilian Death Count

CNN reports in it's scroll, "Lebonon says 82 civilian deaths this week". FOX fills its crawl space with an Israeli outcry concerning the kidnapping of 2 of its soldiers and the unprovoked missle attacks. They hit me first! one yelps, while the other whines that they were minding their own business when this big bully pushed them with their big American fighter jets.

If it wasn't so deadly, if it wasn't so endless, if it wasn't so senseless we could just spank these little brats. But we've let them go too long. Boot camp won't scare them at this stage, a probated sentence won't shake them to their core and set them back on the right track. They're too old now...no longer the little train that could; now they're the runaway train that would. Would what? Would rather stay off the track careening wildly through civilized societies hurting, maming, destroying everything in their path; wherever that is leading. Who are they? Radical extremists? Well, extremists for certain; but radical? No, not in my opinion. There is nothing new or transforming in a positive way about these cruel and lawless criminals. They are simply unattended children who have grown into religous fanatics who never learned the golden rule and don't care about the golden rule.

After-thought...
These murderers, these pervayers of racial hatred march through the news reels in ridiculous postures like a formation of frenzied Meerkats driven by some animalistic instinctive impulse to satisfy a bloodlust that no sane person can understand. But I know CNN will explain it to us, and explain it to us, and explain it to us, and explain it to us, and explain it to...