tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post8267922582736476087..comments2024-02-19T04:50:58.170-08:00Comments on Shuck and Jive: The Bible In [or On] Your FaceJohn Shuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00798753206614838161noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-32601924625174801862009-12-14T19:40:26.497-08:002009-12-14T19:40:26.497-08:00Chris Hedges is the cat's pajamas...
Have a lo...Chris Hedges is the cat's pajamas...<br />Have a look:<br />http://vodpod.com/watch/1985253-one-on-one-chris-hedgesDavid R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13902714786448599023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-26069546726640374332009-12-09T08:21:26.924-08:002009-12-09T08:21:26.924-08:00Thanks, John. You might find his new book interest...Thanks, John. You might find his new book interesting as well, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=-Hb_mxZdxAQC&dq=inauthor:Chris+inauthor:Hedges&ei=QM4fS5nvA52QNeLB3csI&cd=9" rel="nofollow">Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle\</a>John Shuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00798753206614838161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-87998897121612824562009-12-09T07:02:27.570-08:002009-12-09T07:02:27.570-08:00Chris Hedges has been exploring the dark side of C...Chris Hedges has been exploring the dark side of Christian America in a book he wrote recently: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Fascists:_The_Christian_Right_and_the_War_on_America" rel="nofollow"><i>American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America</i></a>. He has written a lot of books and writes regularly at <a href="http://www.truthdig.com" rel="nofollow"><i>TruthDig</i></a>. He wrote WAR IS A FORCE THAT GIVES US MEANING and LOSING MOSES ON THE FREEWAY: THE 10 COMMANDMENTS IN AMERICA. Mary Lynn Gras led a great study of the latter book a couple of years back at FPC Utica.<br /><br />+ Love + John A Wilde + Whitesboro NY + <i><a href="http://johnawilde.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">The John A Wilde Blog</a> + We are intimately, intricately and infinitely connected by a matrix of unconditional, unlimited and uniting love which is miraculous, mysterious and marvelous.</i>Abundancetrekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02172605993275056084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-8795193020431021782009-12-08T16:38:10.118-08:002009-12-08T16:38:10.118-08:00I agree, John. Have you read Octavia Butler's...I agree, John. Have you read Octavia Butler's Parable books?<br /><br />Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents are set about 15-20 years from now. Very realistic.<br /><br />The Parable of the Talents shows the rise of "Christian America." Scary stuff.<br /><br />Real issues for me are energy, ecology, and most importantly how our society and world will function in light of change in access to resources and comforts. <br /><br />Ultimately, will we gather in little groups and fight to the death for resources or will find a way to work together and share?<br /><br />The first option looks likely but I am putting my Advent hope on door number 2.John Shuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00798753206614838161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-13460660576012122812009-12-08T13:52:05.406-08:002009-12-08T13:52:05.406-08:00I know we are having fun here and I appreciate tha...I know we are having fun here and I appreciate that but I am very concerned that half of our country is going one way and half the opposite and we better find common ground before we have Civil War. Does anyone else see it that way?<br /><br />Or, perhaps even worse, the plutocrats have us just where they want us, discussing anything but the real issues. I don't mean this blog and its readers but the general discourse of the nation. We are in a huge crisis and most people are simply going on like it's 1984.<br /><br />+ Love + John A Wilde + Whitesboro NY + <i><a href="http://johnawilde.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">The John A Wilde Blog</a> + We are intimately, intricately and infinitely connected by a matrix of unconditional, unlimited and uniting love which is miraculous, mysterious and marvelous.</i>Abundancetrekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02172605993275056084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-71167433367740241632009-12-08T12:17:45.601-08:002009-12-08T12:17:45.601-08:00"Better a symbol of his faith than a corporat...<i>"Better a symbol of his faith than a corporate logo she says. "</i><br /><br />That's just the problem! Thanks to folks like Tebow and TN Tranny, religion, Scripture, and all the rest of it HAS BECOME a sort of corporate logo. They call it "Branding" for a reason.Snadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04055786911610974637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-58054628551076846512009-12-08T12:07:28.674-08:002009-12-08T12:07:28.674-08:00A Facebook friend says I should lighten up on the ...A Facebook friend says I should lighten up on the poor guy. She sees what he is doing as sweet and amusing. Better a symbol of his faith than a corporate logo she says. <br /><br />OK. <br /><br />I will stop picking on the football players.John Shuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00798753206614838161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-51168838977177131722009-12-08T05:30:49.918-08:002009-12-08T05:30:49.918-08:00'Tennessee Transmission Tech with the "T&...'Tennessee Transmission Tech with the "T" in each word painted to look like they are the three crosses at Calvary. It makes me want to burn the place to the ground, yet people fall for it like water over a ledge.'<br /><br />Isn't this sort of like setting up shop in the temple to overcharge the folks who forgot to bring their own doves?<br /><br />There is a dentist up the street from me with great big evangelical advertisements all over his office signs.<br /><br />There's really no escape from it here in Sullivan Co.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-55937904088743215332009-12-07T09:08:32.952-08:002009-12-07T09:08:32.952-08:00One of my pet peeves is to see businesses using re...One of my pet peeves is to see businesses using religious symbols to sell their products or services. The little fish symbol is bad enough - touting all good Christians to spend their money here and not at heathen appliance repair stores, but a place here in town has them all topped. Tennessee Transmission Tech with the "T" in each word painted to look like they are the three crosses at Calvary. It makes me want to burn the place to the ground, yet people fall for it like water over a ledge.<br /><br />Go figure.Snadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04055786911610974637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-51908482258601823392009-12-07T07:57:13.084-08:002009-12-07T07:57:13.084-08:00Did any of you watch the movie "Magnolia"...Did any of you watch the movie "Magnolia" and observe its use of the subliminal Bible verse (Ex 8:2) posted in the background? It shows up at bus stops and on posters displayed at the game scene and a couple of other places.<br /><br />Most of the critics never caught it. Even the Wikipedia article about the movie does not mention the posted signs in the background.<br /><br />I thought it was a great inside joke. You had to be a Bible nerd watching the movie in order to catch it.Jodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15447125159108080797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-64934747275194212782009-12-07T07:07:19.929-08:002009-12-07T07:07:19.929-08:00"If there's money to be made, someone wil..."<i>If there's money to be made, someone will throw a cross on any piece of pathetic schlock...</i>"<br /><br />Or in earlier times, <i>turn</i> a piece of a cross <i>into</i> a piece of pathetic schlock! Something had to replace those relics I suppose...<br /><br />I don't see the superstition angle so much, proselytizing is where it's at I believe, and affirming one's commitment to "being a bold witness" in the world.Joshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17303885427565816487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-20654484387014192982009-12-07T06:57:32.259-08:002009-12-07T06:57:32.259-08:00"Can we make Christianity any more coarse?&qu..."Can we make Christianity any more coarse?"<br /><br />Of course we can. How about turning the crucifixion into a bumper sticker with a cutsie slogan: 2 pieces of wood + 3 nails = 4 given. <br /><br />If there's money to be made, someone will throw a cross on any piece of pathetic schlock and call it Christian. For example the crucifixion pot holders I saw in a Christian Bookstore a while back. Seriously. Crucifixion pot holders (they had silk-screened nails and stigmata on the hands.)Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16274395216929104919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-82399940390091606582009-12-06T22:08:20.251-08:002009-12-06T22:08:20.251-08:00Prophetic, perhaps?Prophetic, perhaps?Snadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04055786911610974637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-67145689312480521322009-12-06T20:08:42.713-08:002009-12-06T20:08:42.713-08:00I agree with Snad. There are all kinds of ways to...I agree with Snad. There are all kinds of ways to be more coarse. Just consider a passage from Joshua about the battle for Jericho and killing everyone in town!<br /><br />Of course from a Gators point of view the Crimson Tide deserves this after their defeat. And after all killing everyone in town would cause a crimson tide.Pastor Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10510081361292855641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-19681857539569842902009-12-06T17:17:39.842-08:002009-12-06T17:17:39.842-08:00I guess one could consider this a logical progress...I guess one could consider this a logical progression for football. After all, they've had the "Hail Mary" pass for about 35 years now.Snadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04055786911610974637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-47893529689361743592009-12-06T16:00:14.361-08:002009-12-06T16:00:14.361-08:00Ha! Oh that is funny!Ha! Oh that is funny!John Shuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00798753206614838161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-10317421660117857132009-12-06T15:58:43.238-08:002009-12-06T15:58:43.238-08:00Tim Tebow's eyeblack proslytizing was more hum...Tim Tebow's eyeblack proslytizing was more humorous at last week's game vs. Florida State.<br /><br />He had Hebrews 12:1-2 inscribed under his eyes.<br /><br />The announcers commented on it and looked up Hebrews 12:12 <br />"Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed."<br /><br />The announcers were pondering what he meant by all that. <br /><br />Later, some coach called in and said, "Oh, no, he is referring to Hebrews 12:1-2."<br /><br /> So the announcers corrected themselves and read the standard athlete verse "Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses (the stadium I guess), let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, etc., etc."<br /><br />I got a kick out of that.miT nosnhoJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09103210874230159019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-25080252814771628332009-12-06T15:54:10.243-08:002009-12-06T15:54:10.243-08:00Can we make it any more coarse, you ask? Certain;...Can we make it any more coarse, you ask? Certain;y! Maybe we should check to see what the butt-cheek tattoos sitting near those unwashed jock straps actually are.<br /><br />Your move.Snadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04055786911610974637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30648257.post-25156400783481844062009-12-06T14:25:09.826-08:002009-12-06T14:25:09.826-08:00Matthew 6:5Matthew 6:5jaycoles@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16299489611656202052noreply@blogger.com