Comments on: More Cowbell Award IV

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 17:40:46 +0000

There is a sure-fire method of getting oneself off of these fellows’ mailing lists.

One day, I got an (unsolicited) newsletter from Texe Marrs. (For those who don’t know, Marrs is an “evangelist” whose penchant for conspiracy theories makes Art Bell look like the Amazing Randi.) I sent back the reply envelope with the following note -

“Do not call conspiracy everything that these people call conspiracy;
do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it. The LORD Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, He is the one you are to fear, He is the one you are to dread. - Isaiah 8:12-13 (Please remove me from your mailing list.)”

It worked like a charm. ;-}

By: joel hunter

joel hunter — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:38:34 +0000

…if someone can track down the company making all those guillotines being supplied to the U.S. Government, I want to buy their stock because they’re going to make a killing.

Hahaha, you made a pun!

Seriously though, Dan, I have it on good authority that it ain’t paranoia if they really are out to get you…

By: Ben Finger

Ben Finger — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 04:08:34 +0000

This post made me smile.

By: AlieraKieron

AlieraKieron — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:30:00 +0000

Dan,
Thanks for the response! I’ll take a look.
I absolutely agree with your warning - but then I think any ‘faith’ without the walk is inherently empty.
I was raised in the Methodist Church, and attended regularly until I was fourteen. 14 years later I’m heading back, and while I still remember my most basic ‘catechism’ a lot of the talk in the godblogosphere goes right over my head.
Then again, seeing a lot of the anger and squabbling related, I wonder if I’m better off. The Christian equivolent of the “beginners mind” as it were?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:41:00 +0000

Alierakieron,
I guess Dan is warning you of the heresy of antinomianism…
Francisco