Where’s the line?

Pre 9/11 I never watched or listened to the news. Never. I simply didn’t care. Now every day I read the news online and watch some on TV, and every day I see and hear stories that are so far out there that they don’t even register as being real. Just in the last couple weeks I’ve read about atrocities in the Congo, a dad throwing a baby in a dryer, a man trying to abduct a child in Michigan, and today they found nine heads on the side of the road in Iraq.

Do I really live in such a world? Do I really need to know these things are going on? I’d love to go back to not even knowing this is going on, but I know that isn’t the right thing to do either. Where do you draw the line between being oblivious, sticking your head in the sand, and knowing too much information?

Filed under: Contemplation, Crap, News

Load of Crap

Study: Prayer doesn’t affect heart patients
Thursday, March 30, 2006; Posted: 2:26 p.m. EST (19:26 GMT)
NEW YORK (AP) — In the largest study of its kind, researchers found that having people pray for heart bypass surgery patients had no effect on their recovery. In fact, patients who knew they were being prayed for had a slightly higher rate of complications.

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Filed under: Crap, News

Christian Swear Words

I was listening to a radio program the other day and they were discussing the “Christian” swear words that we use. First they started off by having people call in and spill the beans on all the words they use, then they dove into whether or not it was right for us to use those words. Overall it was an interesting hour of discussion and thought it would make for a good post. So let’s jump into both questions:

1. What Christian swear words do you use?

2. Should we be using those words? Why or Why Not?

(My list of biggest offenders would probably be Dang, Dang-it, Jeez, Crap, Dad Gum It, Fart Knocker)

Filed under: Christian Life, Crap, Questions, Swearing