Monday Morning Scattershooting
Monday Morning Scattershooting while
wondering, If these “blast points are too accurate for Sandpeople” and “Only
Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise” (I have seen Stormtroppers shoot and
they couldn't hit a main character in 3 movies, even slow moving androids) how
bad of a shot are Sandpeople?
It
seems everyone is talking about the Supreme Court decision on same sex marriage.
It got me thinking about the main
argument I hear, even sadly among Christian, of the need to re define
marriage. Basically, that it is unfair
to not extend family and spousal benefits to those that have non traditional unions. So we need to re define marriage
so as not to cause harm to people. Since we now expect our health care and
retirement benefits to come from the government or employers, people can be kept
from necessary services since they are not technically “married”. So government needs to make a new definition
to help people.
I not going to get into that except to say,
why is it that we have become so dependent on the government and others to take
care of us? Once we began thinking that
the state defined marriage, we also let it control it. I see that thinking among the atheist, since
to them the highest judge sits on the Supreme Court. But to the Christian, the highest judge sits
on his throne in heaven. It’s his
judgment that will matter most.
Our newest false god that is worshiped is
society. It give your health (care),
tell you what is right and wrong (laws), keep you happy (entertainment), and
give you blessing (state aid, benefits, welfare). We worship (look at how these issues take over
our lives) and sacrifice (taxes, work for, donate to the political cause) in
order to be in its good favor. When we
don’t do what it says, it will change the weather (global warming), take away
our children (indoctrination) or punish us (lawsuits).
I remember when Abram saved Lot he was
offered by the King of Sodom great blessing, but refused them. The reason Abram
said to the king of Sodom was , "I
have sworn to the LORD God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth that I will
not take a thread or a sandal thong or anything that is yours, for fear you
would say, 'I have made Abram rich.'(Genesis 14:22-23) I wonder if the
people of God should think the same way about things our world wants to offer
us. We need to keep them and us from
thinking that good things in our lives are because of the government, or the
employer, or by our society. They come from God and we need to remember
that.
That’s just a stereotype. Normally that means what the person is saying
is an untrue generalization. Stereotypes
are used to categorize a group of people. We dismiss them because we say they are untrue.
But for a stereotype to come into common
use it has to have some truth in it.
Preachers are all rich handsome fellows,
isn’t a common stereotype[*]
because it isn’t typical enough to catch on. I was reading Titus 1:12-13 when I
thought about this. It says, “One of themselves, a prophet of their own,
said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons." This testimony is true. For this reason
reprove them severely so that they may be sound in the faith”. Here the stereotype for a Cretan was a lazy,
lying, base person. The bigger problem was
it was true! Christians today get stereotyped.
Some of it is unfair but some of it is
true. Preachers, youth ministers, elders,
preacher’s kids all have stereotypes. Maybe
instead of complaining about it, we work to make sure they are not true. Don’t
be the know it all preacher, don’t be the unprofessional youth minister, don’t
be the out of touch elder or the wild preacher’s kid. Be something different.
Act in such a way that it makes the stereotype obsolete.
Finally, never
trust a mathematician with a graph, they’re always plotting something
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