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A picture inflates the perceived truth of true and false claims. Trusting research over their guts, scientists in New Zealand and Canada examined the phenomenon Stephen Colbert, comedian and news satirist, calls "truthiness" -- the feeling that something is true. In four different experiments they discovered that people believe claims are true, regardless of whether they actually are true, when a decorative photograph appears alongside the claim.
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There are popular lies Christians believe that continues generation after generation. The problem with allowing these lies to remain unchecked is that what we think we believe. What we believe, we speak. What we speak, others believe...and the lies continue.
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Tolerance is not only a virtue in modern day culture but the minimum expected of those who are part of that culture. Perhaps it could be said that more than tolerance is both expected and demanded -- and that is approval. It is not enough to live and let live; it is generally assumed by many that nothing less than full and enthusiastic acceptance will do. So, for example, there are those who believe that anything less than the full and enthusiastic support of the GLBT agenda is not enough. I know of people and have acquaintances who have said bluntly that they believe that mere tolerance of their homosexuality is not enough. You cannot love me and not affirm who I am, as it was put to a friend of mine by his own brother. If you love me, you will be at my wedding and happy for me and stand with me, said a daughter of a friend when she introduced her lesbian lover. This may be one of the most visible areas testing our resolve but it is not the only one. You can transfer this same understanding of tolerance, the glorification of diversity, and the lack of any real objective truth to a whole host of issues and challenges. Indeed, the issue facing Christianity today is not simply where you stand but whether you stand at all. Liberal theology has raised questions in our mind about the truth, trustworthiness, and message of Scripture. Liberal psychology has just about explained away most sins so that they are mere matters of choices -- different choices -- made under unique circumstances. Liberal churches say the words of the creeds without necessarily meaning what is said. Liberalism has left us with nothing solid except tolerance, openness to that which is new and different, and a captivity to the moment that has forgotten history and refuses to pass on anything of substance to the future. Churches that presume to hold to their confessions are routinely labelled as narrow, rigid, uncaring, etc... Theologians who confess catholic doctrine are called repristination theologians who can only mimic what has already been said. People in the pew who expect that their pastors and teachers believe what they say are told to grow up and get with the times. So it is no wonder that we have taught our children that everything is negotiable, everything is open for debate, everything is subject to redefinition, and everything is what you think it to be. And many of them, including the children of Christians, have learned this only too well. Will we risk being labelled as narrow and judgmental for standing upon truth and for truth that remains the same and does not change? That is the dilemma facing us now more than ever. While some might express it in terms of the Spirit doing new things (in conflict even with the Word the Spirit said endures forever), others have simply abandoned explanation to accept what is as if it had always been. In Rome, in Wittenberg, in Geneva, and in Constantinople, the issue is the same. Do we accommodate culture or transcend it with the Truth that is Christ that endures forever? Do we change to keep up with what is relevant, where people are at, or what is new and different OR do we hold on to the catholic doctrine and practice that does not change? Do we use words as symbols or do we speak them for what they mean? Do we describe Scripture as mythology with eternal lessons or as fact and truth that is not affected by our faith or our unbelief? No, this is not a call to be rude or impolite or harsh. What we are being called to do and to say is that which is yesterday, today, and forever the same. Where Scripture is believed not simply as true historical record but as the performative and efficacious Word that does what it says. Where creed is confessed as the same living and powerful truth that once overcame an adversarial culture, extended a missionary presence beyond borders, and witnessed against heretic and heresy. Where liturgy is not merely the work of a people in remembrance but the means of grace for the God of time and history to enter the moment with His gracious gifts. Where mercy is not what we do but who we are as we see in Christ who is the mercy of God incarnate.. Where the nicest thing we can do is to proclaim Christ to those who do not know Him and infuse our children with the knowledge of their Savior's saving grace before they have a chance to choose, and where we are content with no one and no place where Christ remains unknown. If the price of tolerance is our conviction, then it is a price too high for us to pay.
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"Complicated": junk mail collage, digital. Want music? Click here: Daryl Hall, Oh Baby Baby. then click back on this blog tab or here to listen as you browse, or not? 2GN2S ... Lost Words from some Childhoods Mergatroyd! Do you remember that word? Heavens to Mergatroyd! The other day I overheard a not so elderly (let’s say 75) lady say something to her son about driving a Jalopy; and he looked at her quizzically and said, "What the heck is a Jalopy?" He had never heard of the word jalopy! She knew she was old ... But not that old. Well, I hope you are Hunky Dory after you read this and chuckle. A friend and I recently reminisced about some old expressions that have become obsolete, many because of the inexorable march of technology. These phrases included:Don't touch that dial, Carbon copy.You sound like a broken record, Hung out to dry. Back in the olden days we had a lot of moxie . We'd put on our best bib and tucker to straighten up and fly right. Heavens to Betsy! Gee whillikers! Jumping Jehosofat! Holy Moley! We were in like Flynn and living the life of Riley ; Back in the olden days, life used to be swell, but when's the last time anything was swell? Swell has gone the way of beehive hair-do, pageboys and spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes, and pedal pushers. Kilroy was here, but he isn't anymore. We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say, "Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!" or, "This is a fine kettle of fish!" We discover that the words we grew up with, the words that seemed omnipresent, like oxygen, have vanished with scarcely a notice from our tongues and our pens and our keyboards. Poof, go the words of our youth, the words we've left behind. We blink, and they're gone. Long gone: Pshaw, The milkman did it. Hey! It's your nickel. Don't forget to pull the chain. Knee high to a grasshopper. Well, Fiddlesticks! Going like sixty. I'll see you in the funny papers. Don't take any wooden nickels. Wake up and smell the roses. It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter has liver pills. This can be disturbing stuff! (Carter's Little Liver Pills are gone too!) Leaves us to wonder where Superman will find a phone booth? See ya later, alligator! Okidoki As mentioned yesterday, here, more of the old signs from the Sign Boneyard. The photos aren't great but they will give you an idea of what we saw. And, as we were leaving on the way to WW's car, I saw this beautiful tree from a distance, and then closer, and then closest. Any guesses on what kind? A beautiful video, Moths, here. Just because ... Boat-billed Heron Smiles for Saturday ... Thanks for coming by today ...
