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Writer’s Horoscope #5 – It’s Written in the Stars! — Hahaha.
Get Fuzzy on equine literary figures — Hahaha more.
Examining Individual Tumor Cells — Understanding the different populations of mutant cells in a cancer could mean more targeted treatments. Interesting. I was unaware of the concept of tumor heterogeneity. That’s one potential explanation for the slightly unusual etiology of my metastasis.
Life on Earth Arose Just Once — I’m not sure I track the conclusions here, but it’s interesting. Of course, there’s always stromatolites.
How Do Christians Become Conservative? — Interesting. He’s got a point. On the face of his own words, Jesus was a lot more interested in helping the poor than in limiting government or hating liberals.
Military bloggers take a nuanced approach to the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell debate — Hey. Nuance and sanity on a sensitive political topic. Hooray!
Laura Bush Supports Gay Marriage, Abortion — In Interview Former First Lady Splits With Husband on Same-Sex Marriage, Abortion. Why do conservative figures seem to only say and do the right, moral thing when it doesn’t matter any more?
In Northeast, raids break the peace — Why would an American, living the American dream, set out to attack the United States? Excellent question. Ask Timothy McVeigh, or Eric Rudolph, or any number of militia members and forced pregnancy enthusiasts. Oh, wait, CNN, you meant Arab-Americans, not white people. Sorry. My mistake.
?otD: Who is your favorite horse (of course)?
5/14/2010
Writing time yesterday: none (chemo)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 7.5 (so-so)
This morning’s weigh-in: 230.4
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 8/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy)
Currently (re)reading: Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
Posted: 5:41 am Fri May 14 2010 |
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May 14th, 2010 at 7:11 amI think Laura Bush’s silence on controversial matters is not a reflection of her politics, but rather a reflection of her upbringing. She wasn’t the President (not that her husband should have been) and I have a feeling that she felt that it would be improper for her to be out vigorously supporting positions in direct opposition to her husband’s. The more I learn of what she says she thinks, the more I feel that Laura Bush is about as centrist as they come. And, if we had a genuine centrist party in the US, she would probably belong to it.
Stephen Watkins
May 14th, 2010 at 7:54 amMike Lux’s article is right on, completely. It’s why Glen Beck’s drivel about leaving churches that preach “social justice” was so insulting. (This is especially so since he professes a religion has it’s own strain of social justice built into its theology, including a law that all members of the Church hold their property in common, aka communism.)
Myself, I used to think I was conservative, but over time I realized that my values were really more geared toward the concern and compassion for all manking that the biblical tradition most strongly supports – and I realized that conservative ideology was fundamentally opposed to those values.
It’s an interesting problem of the way Christianity is often taught today. There is a lot of focus on sin and the evils that we as individuals can do and how that offends God. The whole “offending God” thing is the same formula that is used to push various conservative agenda ideals. But a deeper reading of these texts, in my opinion, reveals that was offends God most is mistreating the poor and our fellow mankind (and womankind for that matter). There are ample hints that caring for other people can do a lot to put us in God’s good graces. In other words, the focus of religion ought not nor never have been so much what we shouldn’t do (i.e. sin), but what we should do. My church differentiates these as “sins of commission” versus “sins of ommission” and warns that it is the latter that is more likely to land us in spiritual hot water – i.e. the failure to do the things we’re supposed to like help the poor, sick and afflicted.
Sadly, that message is lost on the majority of my church’s members, who tend to fit the conservative mold rather than the christ-like mold.
strugglingwriter
May 14th, 2010 at 8:18 am“Why do conservative figures seem to only say and do the right, moral thing when it doesn’t matter any more?”
That’s exactly my take on it. She showed absolutely no courage saying that now. If she really believed it, she could’ve said it when her husband was President, even in his 2nd term. She’s just trying to sell books now.