Sunday School
"This country was not built by nervous nellies and Sunday school teachers but by bold marauders, dodgers, Sooners, buffalo hunters, forty-niners..."
--Garrison Keillor
I'm quoting Keillor out of context. And I'm using his words to make a different point than the one he set out to make in his letter published on Sunday, October 16, 2005 by the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
But speaking as someone who fits more comfortably into the second category than the first, I wonder when we'll take the country back - or at least get our voice better represented.
Bill Maher said on his October 7 2005 episode of HBO's Real Time: "George Bush does have a diverse Cabinet when it comes to race. They've done a pretty good job: Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, so forth. But, you know, I don't think race makes someone as diverse nowadays as how you think about religion. And there's no secular voice. There's no voice of me in this Cabinet."
Don't get me wrong; I think the message of Jesus is rock solid. He taught compassion and tolerance. His was a message of love and enlightenment.
If he were here today, who knows what means he might employ to spread his message.
A talk show? Nah, too corporate. He was a man of the people.
Maybe a rock band. What would Jesus call his band?
MC JC and the Dudez Divine ?
Three Days Later ?
Barabas' Last Laugh ?
50-Foot Jeebuz ?
Jesus Jive and His Bethlehem Five ?
Baby Jesus and Sinful Nuns of St. Valentine ?
Christ's teachings and Christianity are not the same thing. And even if they were, they don't belong in the Oval Office.
"Poor Jesus. Betrayed first by a kiss and then by a religion" --Tom Robbins
"If Jesus Christ could come back today and see all the things that have been done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up." -- Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Vote for Al Swearengen in 2008
--Garrison Keillor
I'm quoting Keillor out of context. And I'm using his words to make a different point than the one he set out to make in his letter published on Sunday, October 16, 2005 by the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
But speaking as someone who fits more comfortably into the second category than the first, I wonder when we'll take the country back - or at least get our voice better represented.
Bill Maher said on his October 7 2005 episode of HBO's Real Time: "George Bush does have a diverse Cabinet when it comes to race. They've done a pretty good job: Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, so forth. But, you know, I don't think race makes someone as diverse nowadays as how you think about religion. And there's no secular voice. There's no voice of me in this Cabinet."
Don't get me wrong; I think the message of Jesus is rock solid. He taught compassion and tolerance. His was a message of love and enlightenment.
If he were here today, who knows what means he might employ to spread his message.
A talk show? Nah, too corporate. He was a man of the people.
Maybe a rock band. What would Jesus call his band?
MC JC and the Dudez Divine ?
Three Days Later ?
Barabas' Last Laugh ?
50-Foot Jeebuz ?
Jesus Jive and His Bethlehem Five ?
Baby Jesus and Sinful Nuns of St. Valentine ?
Christ's teachings and Christianity are not the same thing. And even if they were, they don't belong in the Oval Office.
"Poor Jesus. Betrayed first by a kiss and then by a religion" --Tom Robbins
"If Jesus Christ could come back today and see all the things that have been done in his name, he'd never stop throwing up." -- Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Vote for Al Swearengen in 2008
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