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Sunday's Sundry Missives
- Check this painting out by rolling your cursor across the image. Not a great work of art by any means but, kind of interesting- although don't get too torqued up if you're not a religious person and miss the point. Found the little gem here.
- Story about the above 2 million dollar Bugatti turned Jon boat here. Too disturbing for a weak kneed sissy such as myself but, try to work your way through it if you dare. Oh, wow! PS- Look here for video of the Bugatti going into the drink.
- Too sad for words.
- Regardless of where I'm at or what's going on if I'm in the shower- the door to the house will locked.
- The first thing I said when I saw a picture of the Fort Hood murderer was,"He doesn't look too sharp." "What do you mean?" I was asked. "He doesn't look very bright- he looks like a dimwit." That exchange was the first thing I thought of when it came out he was a very mediocre student in medical school.
- Snap judgments: another one of my superpowers that must be used for good and not evil.
- My insurance agent is smokin' hot and I don't mean she was tragically set on fire by some moron burning their trash or she huffs Marlboro 100 cigarettes like there's no tomorrow for her lunch break.
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Time to maybe get some more insurance products. An umbrella policy perhaps? Or change from one type of policy to another? Any excuse for a meeting, right?
Ahem...As to your directive to view the portrait of Jesus holding the U.S. Constitution....
There is a very good reason the first 1/2 of the first sentence of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution clearly, in as plan terms as possible, states the government shall not endorse or prohibit religion...
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
The U.S. Consititution is NOT a document intended to reinforce or validate Jesus/Christianity. As a matter of fact, the first portion of the First Amendment makes it abundantly clear that religion has no place in politics and politics has no place in religion.
Values Christians readily declare as "Christian Values" are not the sole property or invention of Christianity. For centuries, prior to Christianity, there were millions of people who adhered to values the Christians attempt to ascribe as theirs. The U.S. Constitution, for the most part, attempted to make certain that all white adult males were granted the same opportunity and protection of and from the law as any other adult white male regardless of his religious/political/personal beliefs.
To be quite honest, I would hope Jesus would have been disgusted by the U.S. Constitution's determining that negros did not count as much as whites and that women and children were not considered anything more than the property of men.
It is intellectually dishonest to site that the authors of the U.S. Constitution based the Constitution on Christian ethics and not acknowledge the fact women, children and blacks were considered and treated as lesser beings than "free" white males, throughout the Constitution.
Allow me to make note, though I have a profound belief and knowledge of God, have been baptized and confirmed within the Catholic faith and Bat Mitzvahed within the Jewish faith, I do not ascribe to any of the religions created by men/mortals in an attempt to explain God. Also note, that nowhere within the U.S. Constitution does the word God or Jesus appear.
* Most mentally disturbed people look none-too-bright and Dr. Hasan is no different. As for Hasan being a mediocre medical student...Most doctors graduate medical school as mediocre or worse. It is impossible for more than 1/2 of medical students to graduate at above "average" without it being an indication that the "average" is not a true "average."
I think the picture is very interesting... thank you for sharing it with us.
OP- ha, yeah good one. Interestingly I have two appoinments with her next week! I could have combined them but, why?
Mz- my dear. I do love the way you think. Sometimes I think you're tooo smart for your own good (that came out god first- weird.)
G- Thanks glad you like it. Like I said it was not a great work of art and I mostly found it interesting to view as an expression of the artists feelings. Especially- since they were all not necessarily shared by myself. I assumed a lot of people would get hung up on the religious aspect, not seeing the kind of interesting viewpoints and I guess that's part of the nature of 'art'.
Wow. I was just going to make a comment on the Veyron, but MZ has kinda unleashed a volley on the Jesus/Constitution picture, so what the heck, I'll wade in...
I think the picture is interesting. I don't take it in a literal sense, and would hope that most would understand it in the context of the artist's desire to provoke thought. Stirring the pot a bit, I suppose.
As a Christian, I don't hold that my faith has a monopoly on moral living. In fact, faith/spirituality and morality are distinct issues. I know a good many irreligious people, objectivists even, whose morals and integrity are of the highest order. And conversely, Christians who are morally bankrupt, or at least deep in debt.
I don't disagree with MZ's argument regarding the separation clause, that the U.S. Constitution is not meant to uphold or promote Christianity - that much is very clear on its face.
That said, I am concerned with the current trend to expunge all forms of religious display, most notably Christian, from public life, when such is in no way an act of Congress making law or establishing religion, and in fact often abridges the free exercise thereof. While the Constitution is not a Biblically based document and should not be so construed, there are many who try to whitewash that, in the main, its framers were largely from Judeo-Christian background (yes, I'm also aware of the Deists), and it would be silly to assert that their thoughts were not to some degree informed by such values.
I could be a very moral person, with or without Christianity, but I choose Christianity as a way of living to grow spiritually and to maintain my moral values.
Now, about that Bugatti...
At one time, I probably would've been heartsick to see someone destroy such a vehicle (why did he run it for 15 minutes after it was in the water?).
But, these days, I look at it and say "Hey, it's a car."
Albeit a very expensive car...
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