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Slimy, Yellowish Green? Whats' it?"Okay, ..what is green and yellow and goes 100 miles an hour in reverse?"
"Snot!"
Yep, that is right! Green Slimy Snot! That is the color I am in my extended family, beyond my own children. No white sheep here. You can sell the wool from white sheep and black sheep, but "...there ain't no market for green slimy snot-colored wool." You see, on that side of the family, which is basically all that is left of both sides of the family - and believe me, there is no worry on my mother's side of the family that their name won't carry on - the white sheep are a'plenty - the best white wool on the market. You see, they are all exclusively, right-wing Republican Christians. None of this green slime that I represent.
I like watching Bill Mauer, but he really has a hang-up when it comes to religion. On last week's show, his panel was made up of Craig Ferguson, Carly Fiorina, Fmr. Lt. Gov. Michael Steele (R-MD), and John Amaechi as part of the panel, and when Mauer came down hard on religion and people who believe in it, Carly Fiorina, humbly tried to defuse him.
"Ahhh," says Fiorina. "You don't really believe that."
While Mauer rampaged about the religions he has studied (which isn't much), Fiorina sort of dropped the subject. Moved on. The thing that Mauer doesn't understand is that George Bush has a lot to explain when it comes to his own booking reservations after his death and, thus, his own religion and his place in religious history. There is not a verse in The New Testament that supports George W. Bush's religion. There isn't a verse, not one, that supports the use of his language nor is there a verse which supports his war.
My youngest son decided after graduation from college to volunteer with the Washington D.C. Food Pantry program, that is sponsored by many of the churches in the area, ... religion. Now, I have to be honest about it, because I have absolutely no idea what his job was like, but he did many Power Point programs for various area churches around here and there and kept up a data base of information on who was being fed and how many. He would visit all of their locations and submit reports. (discplesx.com) It's too bad that Mauer doesn't take a month off and see what and how many different religions are making a difference in this world. I'm not sure I like Mauer's sense of humor, but I do like the fact that his show politically aligns with mine. I question whether he is making any difference whatsoever in life. I believe we all should make a difference, and if you believe in God, then you must believe that we are all children of God. With that, it means, we have a duty to help those who are needy.
My dominant side of the family is Republican-Repugnant. This R-R thing is kind of a religious off-shoot of the mental condition called "Delusions of Grandeur." God's choice is right-wing religion. None of this born-again stuff. The Bible is interpreted strictly, given that the interpretation is sensable. No playing with snakes or drinking poison. God hears our prayers before we even pray them, so we have no need for some unknown kind of trance-like language of angels condition. A large percentage of the religious right-wing, believe in speaking in unknown tongues and REAL miracles, where there has never been one verified.
Passage Romans 8:25-28:
25) But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
26) In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will. (NIV)
So, ... why do we need to have a personal prayer language? It's a bit goofy, to me, to think God expects us to have our own prayer language, when many Christians cannot talk. But, aside, from those, water baptism and Communion, "Where the Bible speaks, we speak. Where the Bible is silent, we are silent," is the mantra we live by, and I support that though, ... within wide parameters.
"Mom, what do Democrats look like," a nephew asked his mother. "Do they have horns and a forked tail?" Believe me, that anecdote was told in our presence because they knew we are not close to being Republican.
My uncle sent me a harrassing email after Bush was appointed president the first time. After I filleted him and left him in cyberspace plagued with deadly viruses, he backed off and stopped sending me the right wing, anti-Clinton, anti-Democratic spam. I'm down to about 5 a week. No Democratic spam; just the emails for which I signed. Even my own brother, who has 3 Masters Degrees, finds himself hanging on to Bush's shoe laces.
None would dare to define us as non-Christians, but they easily color us as yellowish, yucky green, mutated into some slimy substance that gets all over you and cannot be washed off. Since the slime is slick, those Pharisaical Christians step back and wait for us to slip-up. Dare not get your hands dirty by touching slimy believers. Sadly, they have yet to come to grips with the fact that Bush is a failure. Cheney is a failure. Rummy is a failure and Rice is a failure. The ilk of their kind can never be erased. Though Colon Powell will forever try to distance himself from this group of parasites, he shall never accomplish what could have been in his final biography. His name shall forever be intertwined with their Iraq failure. And there are many.
For fun, I am leaving a url, where you can enjoy a truly American experience!!
http://sassiespatriotism.blogspot.com/
