Quick Random Thoughts

Unfortunately, my time is being eaten up by kids and a really intense quarter of nursing school. But, I keep filing little things into my brain that I want to blog about. So, here are a few quick thoughts I've had....I wish I had time to expand on some of them, but I don't right now.

1) As I was taking my son to Taekwondo a few weeks ago, I noticed a signboard for a church that read:

The Problem with Peace & Prosperity

Yes, peace is a HUGE problem in this world right now. We need to keep these wars going so that we never have peace...I guess that's the Christian way. If I didn't value my Sunday mornings as much as I do, I would have attended the service just to hear what this pastor had to say.

2) My bil brought up good vs evil and we had a nice discussion. Basically, we have polar opposite opinions on this subject...he sees everything as black and white and I tried to bring up some examples of when things aren't so black and white. As the conversation progressed, he told my husband and I that he is nothing without god and he he couldn't have done anything that he's done on his own.
How sad!! I told him that I felt that was a very sad outlook on life. I know that I've been the one to make all of my accomplishments and I am proud of myself for what I've done. He then told me I was very prideful....which he meant as an insult, but I told him thank you for the compliment. I am proud of myself and I have every right to be!

3) My sil told my son that he needs to "obey" her....grrrrr. I do not like the word obey and I have NEVER told my kids to obey me. Honestly, when I hear obey, I think of people blindly following what they are told to do...no questions allowed.
My son didn't mention this until we were back home, so I didn't get a chance to talk to her about it at the time. However, I did explain that it is always OK to ask questions when someone asks you to do something. If that person doesn't have an acceptable answer, it may not be a good thing to do. I reiterated that he can ALWAYS come and get me or respectfully tell an adult no if he feels he is being asked to do something wrong.

4) I listened to another sermon by my in-laws pastor and was sickened by it. Here are some basic points:
Be crazy for Christ...the more people tell you you're crazy the better. I wonder if he feels the same way about those "crazy" Muslim's blowing themselves up for their god??

He spent many years as an atheist. He was angry at god and ran from him....forgive me if I'm wrong but the definition of atheist is "the absence of a belief in a god" How can you be mad at something you don't believe in ? Hmmm.

People who believe evolution call Creationists crazy but they're the crazy ones because there is not proof for evolution.....OK bud, I think you're a little confused on this. Evolution has TONS of evidence (talkorigins.org) creationism has none, zero, zilch. That is why we think you're crazy...you believe in modern medicine which uses the same science that was used in the discovery of evolution, but one is just plain crazy because it doesn't jive with what you believe.

And finally, my favorite....don't save money for retirement, give it to my church so we can build an 8million dollar building!!!!!!

How can people sit through this shit...I would have walked out half way through or been caught laughing out loud!

And those are my random thoughts that I've been itching to write about :)