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$500 Dollar Cash Prize By Cleo I’ve been accused of being sacrilegious, but I really don’t think I am…it’s just that I’m sponsoring a Jesus Christ look alike contest…or at least I would if I had $500 to throw around. Recently I’ve noticed an inordinate number of students her at school sporting longish hair and full beards. Clearly, since this is a conservative Christian kind of a place, they can’t all be pinkos. My theory is, they’re trying to look like J.C. Himself…admittedly a young Aryan (and in at least a coupla cases, really hot) Jesus, but still… My longstanding dislike of male facial hair aside, maybe this is some bizarre metaphor. (I’m Cleo, after all. Everything looks like a metaphor to me.) Many Christians run around trying to “look like Jesus.” I know I do. We’re all asking ourselves WWJD? How can we make our lives most visibly appealing to the Christians around us so they’ll think we’re “just like Jesus?” Christlikeness –a radical revitalization of every aspect of our lives to conform to God--is to be highly praised. On the other hand, faking it, keeping up appearances for the sake of the opinions of fellow Christians is bullshit. We’re trying to look like Jesus…when we should try to be like Jesus…for His sake and not for the sake of public opinion. A Call to Discrimination by Cpt. Willard Gee, I found another thing that pisses me off. It really doesn't take much at 3:30 A.M., let alone any other time of the day. It's also no surprise that this thing is presently the embraced doctrine of the country. Getting pissed about it wouldn't be fun otherwise. It is the doctrine of acceptance. Obviously, the title is offensive and misleading. It wouldn't get your attention if it weren't. I do not mean to say that we should not love everyone as a brother or sister. I think we should. The main reason being that the rest of humanity is in the same shitty situation as you: a loser in terrible, terrible need of redemption. By that logic, yes, love everyone, but one does not need to embrace any portion of another's doctrine if it disagrees with his own. The call to acceptance is not a new danger. It really just exemplifies the human tendency to cower in the face of confrontation. It is bad now and has always been for two main reasons: the first logical and the second Biblical. Christians giving even the slightest creedence to another doctrine is logically inconsistent. You can not give credit to contradictory opinions and beliefs without first compromising your |
own. You should notice that I said "contradictory." This means that perhaps the hippie philosophy of love is not bad in itself, but their approach to love of self without Providence is false. The Mormon emphasis on stability in Families is not abhored, but their ignorance of God's omniscience is a serious offense indeed. In this case, you are faced with two options. Either 1) your belief is so strong that it cannot be compromised and you must blatantly disagree on the point debated or 2) your belief changes and you agree with the other party.
Biblically, it is a mistake to conform to the philosophies of a lost outside world. Perhaps the best illustration of this is the Old Testament nation of Israel. God commanded them to be uncompromising in their devotion to Him; many times through their cultural uniqueness. In a way, God was commanding them to discriminate. I pray that I have even an iota of the zeal David had when he said, "Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he taunts the army of the Living God?" This also leads to asenine criticism of people who are merely being sincere. Such is the case in a recent article I read in the Atlantic concerning C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia. It was argued that Lewis was discriminating against Muslims by depicting his fictional land of Calormen as evil and referring to them as "darkies." No one seemed to think that perhaps Lewis was trying to illustrate a spiritual point from an Old Testament perspective. Calormen most likely does not represent people with dark skin, but rather a portion of humanity with a flawed worldview. It is a shame when hypocrisy becomes the status quo. I can assure you that Writing on the Stall will continue to operate off of the pious discrimination of foul-mouthed punks even if we are the only source of it. Until we get bored, then we'll probably all join the army. We have no Idea who Eric Stone is, but anyone with a mindless, fanatical devotion to a laughable science fiction production is a friend of ours. I bet he buys women's panties just to sniff em' now and then. Sad. 
Evidently, this is Eric with the girl who played Tabitha on Bewitched. Hmmmmmmm, she must be getting a lot of work. |
