Whoa yeah

DELIRIUM TREMOLOS
Ray Wylie Hubbard

Philo

Alright, Jack.

"That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans."

-- Clive Staples (Jack) Lewis

Too bad BP didn't read The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."

- Douglas Adams

My Cousin Harry.

"I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell."

-- Harry S Truman

Fair warning.

Complete with dangling preposition.

This Week's R.I.P.

LENA HORN
Lena Horn

Tops

I don't know what to say.

National Day of Prayer

Today is the National Day of Prayer. The Christian Right and the Secular Left are going at it, tooth and nail.

But what does The Authority have to say about such things?

Matthew 6:1-15 (New International Version)


"Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

"So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

"This, then, is how you should pray:
" 'Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.' For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

'Nuff said.

This is not the Church, although it is the church.

"Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening."

-- Barbara Tober