100 years ago this morning… as of just a few minutes ago… Titanic slipped under the North Atlantic, taking more than 1500 souls with her. This tragedy speaks volumes to us even today — bringing about systemic change in her time, but is a call for us to never assume that our technological genius is greater than our arrogance and negligence.
Because arrogance and negligence will kill us every time.
Truth in Action Ministries (the religious group started by D. James Kennedy as Coral Ridge Ministries) posted a video this week that used the iceberg that Titanic hit in 1912 as an analogy for how the “radical homosexual agenda” will sink American society. The short film features a small army of anti-gay activists and preachers, all presenting a sordid picture of American culture of those horrible gays get their way and are able to claim equality.
Watch highlights from the video and read my full analysis after the jump.
I believe.
I believe in the resurrection. I believe in the power of God to not only show His love by emptying Himself into the form of a man, give us the ultimate victory over death, hell and the grave. I believe in the grace of God to empower all of us to walk in a faith we can’t fully explain, a Lord so majestic we can’t comprehend, in a universe we can only describe as unfathomable.
As the “culture war” rages in American politics, those on the far right behave as they are the Rightobots, charged to wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of the Deceptigays. Every time a Deceptigay rears their rainbow-colored heads, the Rightobots launch a full-scale attack with the sheer goal of wiping their great enemy off the map before the Deceptigays take control of the world to do God knows what with it… and force all Rightobots to accept Deceptigay rule. Or something.
As the fundamentalist culture grows in America and throughout the world, it becomes more evident that it becomes increasingly more detached from the society it hopes to impact. Such separation — whether deliberate or not — is a clear indicator of how such groups have created an elitist mindset. Sadly, it is an attitude that is often bereft of the temperance of reason or compassion.
Abortion. It’s a word that divides our country even nearly 40 years after a Supreme Court decision that made it legal throughout the country. Today, instead of waning, the debate has reached a fever pitch with new “personhood” amendments and laws being pushed throughout the country.
I’ll just go right ahead and say it. The right wing never ceases to shock me with its level of collective ignorance and complete lack of even a basic grasp of reality. The latest example is a stunning trumped-up “controversy” over a requirement that all employers include contraception coverage as part of their medical insurance plans.
The “controversy” in this case is that churches and church-related businesses are demanding to be exempt from the requirement. The policy primarily applies to religious colleges, hospitals, and other groups owned and operated by churches. In fact, churches have always been exempt.
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Don’t just talk about equality, talk about LIFE
Conversation. It’s something we all do. Whether we engage in a conversation about what we want to eat at a fast food joint or about the latest gossip over coffee, it’s all a part of our great human experience. Yet despite being a nation of blabbermouths and yakkity yokels over everything from politics to religion to the gossip mill, there are some conversations that rarely happen — if ever. But they need to.