Posted on 09/16/2005 6:45:26 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
I am a redneck. The key factor of being a redneck is that though we are demeaned by the rest, while they are ranting, we are thinking, "Say what you want. I know I could kick your behind."
I am also a Baptist. I am confident in what I know, and I know I can find out what I don't know.
Welcome to FreeRepublic.
Thank you.
The really disturbing part is Americans of all creeds feel free to vent themselves against certain cultures and religions, yet one dare not say a word about others. Very selective criticism.
Ern...therein lies a problem. Far too many people are "uncomfortable" with religion, especially those other than their own.
"The really disturbing part is Americans of all creeds feel free to vent themselves against certain cultures and religions, yet one dare not say a word about others. Very selective criticism."
Agreed.
Didn't Mark Twain call the Mississippi River the "colon of North America"?
You hafta wonder about what lives at the exit of a colon.
(Did I really say that? How un-PC of me...bad EE, baaaad EE)
"We know one guy came in 1619."
Well, you got me beat by over a hundred years. My mother's mother's side of the family didn't arrive in St. Augustine until the mid-18th century.
Oh, but they picked a lovely area! Nothing against VA, but I love St. Augustine.
"People often ask why God allows these things to occur."
Helen Keller said, "We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world."
It seems to me that it must be necessary to God's purposes that we live in a world where bad things can happen to good people (from our perspective) for no apparent reason.
But then, our time here on Earth is so short in comparison to eternity...
Helen Keller also said, "I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
It seems to be my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were...well, small.
"I love St. Augustine."
You should have seen it -- and smelled it -- in the fifties.
I don't really know why the memory of those fragrances is so vivid after all these years. . .Maybe because I got my first whiff of the ocean down by the seawall.
My issue was the writer's use of the term "redneck" but that seems to have fell by the wayside.
They almost inevitably are wrong.
"The Big Easy is a Modern Day Sodom and Gomorrah"
Putting that on the sign wasn't the smartest thing I have ever seen.
Had this storm come up out of nowhere and smacked only New Orleans your argument might have a leg to stand on but since it whacked areas not particularly sinful like little towns in Mississippi and Alabama not known for their sinful activities it doesn't. Mississippi has maybe ONE abortion clinic and it is not widespread in Alabama either.
Trying to make this a message from God shows me that those who make this claim don't know much about him.
Nothing wrong with the sign to me. I get the point he's trying to say.
In fact that sign could probably go on a national tour and stop at each town on the map.
Change "the Big Easy" to "insert your town name here" and he's prob right on.
"THE BIG EASY IS THE MODERN DAY SODOM AND GOMORRAH."
Tell it to Lot, Jeremiah, St. John and Christ.
Lot was not a prophet. And it has been quite a while since the other successes you mentioned.
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