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Merry Christmas everyone! This year, the choice if yours when it comes to the Nativity service; whether you have it today or tomorrow, here is the homily. I recommend having a service today, and a brief time of praise and thanksgiving tomorrow before the festivities begin. I am of the firm opinion that "doing Church" shouldn't get in the way of celebrating with family, for those very celebrations are a way of worshiping God and expressing our gratitude for Him. So while it may be good to have a formal service, let's keep it brief and get to rejoicing!
My answer: Imagine an entire generation gets taught to play chicken on the railroad tracks and eat moldy bread and drink curdled milk and to snort asbestos whenever they get a cold. Every time someone says "hey, don't do that," the teachers rise up to scream at that guy and shut him down, so now a bunch of this generation gets horrified because they're getting sick and getting hit by trains.
That's my generation. We are this way because we were taught to be this way. Zoomers have the benefit of watching us live up to it and get burned; they get to learn from the mistakes we were told to make.
If I ruled the world, I would simply disband google.
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SuperLutheran (kicky half)I'd be 100% on board with general anticlericalism if we were also anti-laity. The laity by and large love, support, defend and celebrate bad ministers while punishing, condemning, avoiding and ignoring good ministers. The laity set up the perverse incentive; even when Paul Tillich's plan to pervert the churches through subterfuge became a more-or-less open movement, the laity happily went along with the project.
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. -2 Timothy 4:3-4, speaking of our wonderful laity who are clearly never at fault because it's those dastardly pastors lmao
If we're going to be "anti-" types of people, all target are legitimate. Or maybe we could be pro-good stuff more than we are anti-bad stuff.
I remember helping someone move houses during one of my pastoral internships. The 62 year old head pastor that asked for my help was there, and he outpaced all of us younger guys in the work party. When I asked him how he was so spry for his age, he told me point blank: "Well, if you're worth your salt as a pastor you'll be helping people physically all the time. Start pumping iron kid." I took his words to heart and it's been one of the best things for ministry.
Women are great at ruminating on how they want people treating them, and they excel at putting themselves in other women's shoes; "if I were a former pornwhore, I would want people giving me hope and acceptance." Of course, this rumination often gets spun into interesting exceptions when people they know are in the mix: "if I were a former pornwhore, I would want people giving me hope and acceptance. But not if I were Rebecca, that slag deserves everything she gets." Hypocrisy is very common here, held in secret.
Men, on the other hand, can get stuck on the "do unto others" part: "We should castigate former pornwhores." Our instinct is to lay down the rules of action without asking ourselves whether we want the same thing happening to us. "We should castigate pornwhores... Hey, why is everyone castigating my girlfriend for her past indiscretions???" Also hypocritical, but different in the sense that we're surprised when our rules are used on us.
The silliness of mankind is found either in our solipsism (women) or believing ourselves to be above even our own rules (men). When the occasional debate happens over former pornwhores, we find ourselves unable to examine the circumstances *as they are* lest we find ourselves repenting of our hypocrisy. We point to the pornwhore and shriek so that we don't have to ask what we ourselves are doing.
I believe every young woman should have to read through the thousands of comments and arguments where this sort of thing happens. Every time. She should be made to wade through all the nonsense, and then it'll be clear to her that she should never do porn, lest she be made the center of yet another stupid online debate.
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SuperLutheran (kicky half)OK this guy thinks this means S.Korea is pwn'd or whatever, but can I just say that this kind of history beats the hell out of America's recent presidential history? Going backwards: Biden - didn't do anything the people wanted, got away scot free. Trump - didn't do anything the people wanted, got away scot free. Obama - didn't do anything the people wanted, got away scot free. Bush - didn't do anything the people wanted, got away scot free. Clinton - didn't do anything the people wanted, got away scot free. Bush - didn't do anything the people wanted, got away scot free. Reagan - didn't do anything the people wanted, got away scot free. Carter - didn't do anything the people wanted, got away scot free. Ford - didn't do anything the people wanted, got away scot free. Nixon - didn't do anything the people wanted, got away scot free. LBJ - didn't do anything the people wanted, got away scot free. Kennedy - didn't do anything the people wanted, got away scot free. Eisenhower - didn't do anything the people wanted, got away scot free. Truman - didn't do anything the people wanted, got away scot free. FDR - didn't do anything the people wanted, got away scot free. Hoover - was actually pretty cool Coolidge - didn't do anything the people wanted, got away scot free. Harding - didn't do anything the people wanted, got away scot free. Wilson - didn't do anything the people wanted, got away scot free. Taft - fat and didn't do anything the people wanted, got away scot free. Roosevelt - was actually pretty cool McKinley - assassinated.