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songofjoy02My body aches. I thought it was just normal aching (because it started with my back and leg--where I injured my back while ice skating, where I broke my leg in an ATV accident, and at the site of the screws used to fix my leg), but now it feels like it's in my whole body. I guess I'm succumbing to whatever everyone else has been getting. At first, it was pneumonia, but I think it's something else now. Maybe it will go away tonight....I'm very hopeful.;-) Maybe I should sleep on a bed and that would make all my aches and pains go away. Or maybe I should take ibuprofen...strange thought.;-) I hate taking medicine.
Well, I finished Randy Alcorn's book, and it was excellent. For any of you who are interested in reading about "The Pill," he has two appendixes with an excellent summarization of what he wrote in one book. He came at it from the perspective of one who did not wish to believe what he found to be true...so if that's objective enough for you all...;-)
What he wrote in general about abortion really aroused my anger. It was interesting to be reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer's stuff at the same time--reading about the Holocaust during World War II, then reading about the quiet Holocaust that is going on now. Both those things were emotionally moving. Another thing that was angering was that he was CENSORED in what he included in the book. He tried to obtain pictures (paying the normal rate) of unborn children (just unborn children, mind you) and was denied access because of his antiabortion stance. That was somewhat of a recurring theme throughout the book--not about censorship of him, but about censorship of anything that could influence the public against abortion.
But the double standard has been present for a while. It's okay to teach evolution in schools, even though it really fits more under the heading of religion (especially when you consider all the humanism it has encouraged people in, which also ends up being taught--perhaps by default). We must exercise tolerance for other religious groups, but Christians...are a different matter all together. This is, in one way, hard to understand--it's not as if we live in the age of the Crusades. But I know that there are "weapons of hell" endeavoring to hurt the church.
That reminds me of the spiritual warfare that really is going on. I think I may have mentioned this before, though, so I'll stop here. My headache is getting worse. G'night!=)
Well, I finished Randy Alcorn's book, and it was excellent. For any of you who are interested in reading about "The Pill," he has two appendixes with an excellent summarization of what he wrote in one book. He came at it from the perspective of one who did not wish to believe what he found to be true...so if that's objective enough for you all...;-)
What he wrote in general about abortion really aroused my anger. It was interesting to be reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer's stuff at the same time--reading about the Holocaust during World War II, then reading about the quiet Holocaust that is going on now. Both those things were emotionally moving. Another thing that was angering was that he was CENSORED in what he included in the book. He tried to obtain pictures (paying the normal rate) of unborn children (just unborn children, mind you) and was denied access because of his antiabortion stance. That was somewhat of a recurring theme throughout the book--not about censorship of him, but about censorship of anything that could influence the public against abortion.
But the double standard has been present for a while. It's okay to teach evolution in schools, even though it really fits more under the heading of religion (especially when you consider all the humanism it has encouraged people in, which also ends up being taught--perhaps by default). We must exercise tolerance for other religious groups, but Christians...are a different matter all together. This is, in one way, hard to understand--it's not as if we live in the age of the Crusades. But I know that there are "weapons of hell" endeavoring to hurt the church.
That reminds me of the spiritual warfare that really is going on. I think I may have mentioned this before, though, so I'll stop here. My headache is getting worse. G'night!=)
