more specifically, it upsets me when my niece posts something like this on her facebook:
"Obama is in "over his head". Looking at the photos of him and his family watching the returns come in Tues. night was very telling. He looked uncommonly nervous, ringing his hands before and after the networks called the election. No celebratory response, not even a smile. He' a novice and he knows it. BO was created by his party and they own him completely. He'll do what he's told, like the poster boy that he is. As for how it affects us as believers, it is clear that God is pulverizing His church into submission with one political disappointment after another. Watching the pagans put our dear Constitution through the shedder is hard, but politics is not our Savior. We serve King Jesus and Him only."
there is so much that is so wrong with this, it's almost impossible to react at all. i almost didn't post it, but by posting it i feel a little bit better about having seen it. it shouldn't bother me, but somehow it does. and you know, we pagans really should stop putting the constitution through the 'shedder.'
in other news, strangely related, i went back to churchill high school to see a production of arthur miller's THE CRUCIBLE on saturday night. though it is overdone to death, it is still a great play, easily applicable to many periods of history, because of people's unfortunate proclivity to demonize each other. besides all that, the students did it well.
we had a six-hour tech day for BOOTH yesterday. i enjoyed it. we got to see some of the sets and lights, and based on what i saw, it will be a pretty show. tonight we are dealing with costumes for the first time. i am playing a harsh, egocentric, delusional tyrant with a heart of pyrite. though i have some things in common with the character, it is an extremely challenging role for me... but i am having fun with it, and looking forward to performances.
when i'm in my car and i turn on my left turn signal, it doesn't turn off. this is a recent development.
my cat is stretched out on the couch next to me.
i bought a pizza last night. it was half pepperoni and half jalapeno/mushroom. it was pretty good, but what made it delicious was some hot sauce david made. we ate it while watching iron chef.
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I'm not sure we pagans have done anything to the constitution other than interpret it as best we can and apply it to our own lives. The same thing is done by christians in this country.
Does your niece really know what a pagan is anyway? And what does paganism have to do with politics?
We bear the burden of our family of birth. :)
indeed... i think 'pagan' is used in a very loose and incorrect way, meant to signify something bad or evil. it is too terrible to think about how ignorant these people are.
On a much lighter note I read that bit about your left turn signal in your car and then went on to read the next sentance as "my car is stretched out on the couch next to me" I thought you had slipped into poetry as a refuge from harsh reality.
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