The Great Separation

Encouraging Story of Faith and Sharing of Christ's Love.

Walking the talk. - Mark Ellis has a report for ASSIST News Service which I would recommend fellow Christians read. For me it was encouraging to see a report on how the Lord is working in a ministry in Asia.

The ministry is the Asian Rural Life Development Foundation (ARLDF).

Ellis begins:

On the island of Mindanao his cowboy boots and Texas drawl might seem exotic. Yet a heart as large as the Lone Star State is a valuable prerequisite for bringing food, health and dignity to the poorest of the poor in Asia.

“We’ve trained people from 94 different countries here,” says Ben Wolf, the Philippines director for the Asian Rural Life Development Foundation (ARLDF). Wolf helps oversee a 40-acre demonstration farm run by the Mindanao Baptist Rural Life Center, an affiliated organization. Each year, 20,000 visitors travel here to learn sustainable agricultural techniques and a broad range of skills for healthy Christian living.

Religion of the Jedi Opens Academy in Romania.

Does this qualify as a cult? - It certainly qualifies as an oddity for today.

Ananova™ reports:

A Star Wars acedemy that teaches about the religion of the Jedi, use of the light sabre and speaking in Wookiee has opened its doors in Romania.

Adrian Pavel, who runs the country's Star Wars Club, decided to found the Jedi Academy after getting so many questions from fellow fans on how they can be more like their heroes in the Star Wars films.

Well, I guess if we can have the cult of Scientologists we can have the cult of Jedism.

What a sad thing to me.

The Homosexual Agenda and Pedophilia.

One sin begets another. - Folk need to read this post, Self Incriminating Perverts: Sinking a Ship of Fools, from Vigilance Matters.

Marty provides a list of quotes linking the agenda of homosexuality with pedophilia.

He starts off with this one:

"How many gay men, I wonder, would have missed out on a valuable, liberating experience -- one that initiated them into their sexuality -- if it weren't for so-called molestation?" -- Carl Maves, writing in the May 5 1992 issue of The Advocate

And it only gets worse from there. Read it.

The Great Separation continues.

9 Year Attempts to Burn Church Down.

Don't try this at home kids. Or anywhere for that matter. - Here's a bit of an odd story.

The Marietta Times reports:

A disgruntled bible school student is accused of attempting to burn down his Franklin Street church Sunday.

Marietta Police said a 9-year-old student who had been asked to leave the Open Door Baptist Church, 301 Franklin St., returned to the church Sunday afternoon with a five-gallon can of gasoline.

He took the gas and poured a ring around the church building.

Someone called the police and the gas was never lit. I wonder what set him off? I also wonder where a nine year old gets the idea of using 5-gallons of gas to torch a building?

One of those Weeks.

No where to run, no where to hide. - Looks like it may be another one of those weeks.

The Eastern seaboard sure looks to be getting a pounding this year.

I guess we'll need to start hurricane preparedness again. I'm on the West Coast of Florida so one might think, "No Worries." But one needs to remember that these storms are unpredictable and devistating.

Blogging will likely appear lighter than normal this week. Just my prediction.

Burned Mosquitos, Sushi Eye Glasses, & AC Jackets.

Japanese Oddities for today. - These three oddities have a pattern: Japan.

So I thought I'd group them in one post.

The first is from Ananova™ and is a report of a man in Japan who gutted his parent's house with fire because he was trying to kill a mosquito.

What I find odd is that they guy was sleeping outside in his car. Why not inside?

Anyway, he got pestered by this lone mosquito, sprayed bug spray outside in the open in front of his parent's home to kill the blood sucker, and then started to light a cigarette.

You guessed it. There apparently was so much bug spray fumes that the air ignited and the house caught fire. Thankfully no one was seriously injured.

Unless you count the mosquito.

The second oddity is a set of eye glasses that double as chop sticks.

Bill Clinton Gives Political Speech in Church?

What happened to Separation of Church and State? - I guess that doesn't apply to the Democrats. It's more evidence of a, 'do as I say not as I do', mentality. Evident by the likes of Kerry with his whine over the Swifties.

Fair is fair when you have those who started the whole 527's in the likes of Soros and MoveOn.

Impeached President Clinton spent Sunday speaking from the pulpit in Manhattan's Riverside Church.

Devlin Barrett's AP report on Clinton is found on Newsday.com:

...speaking at Riverside Church in upper Manhattan, [President Clinton] said, "Politics and political involvement dictated by faith is not the exclusive province of the right wing."

The Democrats, Clinton argued, need to show their policies are also rooted in faith. "The religious right has tried to turn us all, in disagreeing with them, into two-dimensional cartoons," he said.

Speaking of Bush's religious beliefs, he said, "I believe President Bush is a good Christian. I believe that his faith in Jesus saved him. I believe it gave him new purpose and direction to his life.

"But that doesn't mean that he doesn't see through a glass darkly," Clinton said, quoting a biblical phrase for not seeing clearly.

"It doesn't mean that you can have a bunch of people acting on your behalf and pretending like you don't know them, to say that the seven people who were on John Kerry's Swift boat don't know what they're talking about when they say he deserves the Silver Star, the Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts," Clinton said.

I don't mind that the former President said what he said. He has that right even though he be wrong.

But the truth is that when you have a Republican speaking from a church pulpit on something even remotely political the Democrats cry foul. Their oft heralded cry is 'Separation of Church and State' in such incidents. Some even start pressing for the removal of the tax free status of the church where the speech was given. But why not when a Democrat is caught doing it?

It's yet another Democrat Double Standard. An egregious one at that.

Chocolate Bar a Day, Keeps Blood Flowing.

Ahhh, chocolate. - Ok. This bit of odd medical science news is for all you chocoholics out there.

Health Talk reports:

Eating dark chocolate may not leave you with the feeling of guilt anymore. Greek researchers say they have evidence that shows chocolate improves the function of blood vessels, which in turn helps prevent dangerous blood clots and can help to reduce heart disease.

Don't use this as an excuse to overdo it. It's noted that the potential for chocolate induced weight gain kind of kills the benefits found in eating the rich dark sweetness.

Boos for Kerry Daughters?

Know your audience. - I read about this last night on Drudge. Then I did something I almost never do, I tuned into MTV.

I caught the rerun of the MTV Awards. Specifically, I caught the said booing incident of Kerry's two daughters there to stump for their dad. It was funny seeing one of them try to 'shush' the crowd.

Drudge writes:

From the moment Alexandra and Vanessa started speaking, the boos outweighed anything close to cheers, and the reaction turned worse when the daughters asked the VIACOM youth to vote for their father. So shocked by the reaction, the taller of the two daughters tried to 'shhhhhh' her peers to no avail.

It didn't seem quite that loud to me, but one could argue that the mike for the two girls was the only thing on so hearing the crowd noise would be more difficult. One could still hear the boos.

Despite the interesting crowd reaction, I thought the MTV presentation of the Kerry Girls with the Bush Twins via satellite was pretty balanced. I guess it was an attempt to encourage youth to vote. Of course, the MTV crowd may not like how the youth use their vote, given the boos.

Ah, no. I couldn't make out any boos while the twins spoke.

Whoever's bright idea it was to let regular people into the MTV awards this year may be looking for a new job this morning. I feel fairly certain the MTV music industry wasn't happy about the boos.

What Say You?

Opinions, opinions. - Hey folks, I made a change to the website yesterday. To the left you should see four drop down lists.

They list the recent posts, the recent comments, the categories, and the past twenty weeks worth of archives.

I'll likely keep the categories and archives drop down list but I'm not certain about the postings and comments drop down list.

What do you think of it? Useful? Not so useful?

Still in the right column under the blogads is the original display of recent postings, comments, and categories.