LAUGHTER AND LIGHT

I’m not sure what I think of blogging, it takes time perhaps more than I have.

Last night I attempted to watch bush’s speech, I only lasted a minute though because I found it so disturbing. I know that I must speak out against this regime and work for change, yet I wonder how to do that without becoming corrupt myself. Jesus told us to love everyone; I find that very hard with bush. I look at the sermon on the mount and wonder how and where Christianity lost it, but when I call bush names and malign him am I living it?????NO I like what Anne Lamott said, about bush, in Her book Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith;

“Maybe I can’t exactly forgive him right now, in the sense of canceling my resentment and judgment. But maybe I can acknowledge what is true spiritually; that he gets to come to the table and eat too; that I would not let him starve.”

By the way it is a wonderful book.

Jesus didn't exactly say nice things about or to the religious right of his day...

You scored as Emergent/Postmodern. You are Emergent/Postmodern in your theology. You feel alienated from older forms of church, you don't think they connect to modern culture very well. No one knows the whole truth about God, and we have much to learn from each other, and so learning takes place in dialogue. Evangelism should take place in relationships rather than through crusades and altar-calls. People are interested in spirituality and want to ask questions, so the church should help them to do this.

What's your theological worldview?
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Emergent/Postmodern 86% Roman Catholic 68% Neo orthodox 68% Classical Liberal 54% Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan 46% Modern Liberal 43% Charismatic/Pentecostal 32% Reformed Evangelical 11% Fundamentalist 4% What's your theological worldview?

You Are 29 Years Old

29 Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

I grew up angry, my mother was screwed up, my father absent. I was alone, alone and really pissed off. When I was seven someone took me to a kids club to get me "saved" I asked the teacher if kids whose parents didn't let them hear about Jesus would go to hell. Her reply; "Well of course you can't get to heaven with out Jesus." That was the end of Christianity for me. My screwed up family was Catholic so we were going to hell in a handbasket anyway, I decided that I didn't want anything to do with God, and avoided christians like the plague. Many years and spiritual practices later I "got saved". I spent a number of years trying to convice myself that I was wrong about everything that I thought was right.

Over the years, I went to Church, Bible Study, then to Bible College where I learned a different interpretation of the bible. It was in bible college thatI began to question inerrancy. Who's interpretation is without error? My favorite teacher although quite a fundie had the heart of Jesus, and even though I now disagree with much, if not all of her theology, I see Jesus in her life and actions. As I have walked away from fundamentalism, I am learning to love the ones who call me a heretic. I can tell you I am not there, but I am learning on the journey.

Jesus was a rebel, he was considered a heretic by the religious right of his day. He hung out with the tax collectors, the prostitutes, healed gentiles, spoke with women, allowed unclean women to touch him. All the time the robed jerry falwells and pat robertson walking around pointing out how wrong he was... "Why he obviously was given power by Satan himself to cast out demons. He broke the law by healing on the Sabbath, this man is a subversive we must get rid of him" "I know lets get the government to kill him." Can't you see it? If Jesus were here today he'd be locked up perhaps at Guantanamo Bay, or somewhere in texas awaiting a lethal injection.

I've always been a bit of a rebel. As a Fundi, I was told to be submissive, that rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. I suppressed a part of me for over 15 years, and in the process lost myself. A dear friend of mine used to always pray that I would stop trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. That friend was a prophet, he didn't know what he meant, I didn't know what he meant. He died in March, I never got to tell him I figured it out. He was also a musician, we disagreed on much yet I know he would be thrilled that I figured it out.

So I'm a rebel, I go against the flow. I am who God created me to be no more no less. I prayed that God would make me more like Jesus. God did, the father/mother of all made me a rebel, I was given an analytical mind, and the ability to cut through the crap. I pray that the other rebels who are lost in a religious system will find their voices and begin to speak out! That they will not care if they are called heathen or heretics, but speak out like the Rebel Jesus.

Mom! Hurry hide Sponge Bob the religious right are after him. They've aready torn off a leg 

Until today, I thought that I was quite computer savvy Ha! My 13 year old does a much better job linking than I do. I did manage to get one link to work "theocracy watch". I attempted to link the grace pages and sacred space the / is the grace pages, sacred space just isn't there. In the infamous words of Miss Scarlett O'Hara "I'll think about it tomorow.