[Dr. Eckleburg]

Ping to the second part of this eight-part series.

Let's keep it nice.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Thanks for posting this. I needed to hear some of it. Even though I'm not Christian.

Bless.

[Gamecock]

A few years ago, a Christian company in Florida began marketing “Jesus the Doll,” a doll the makers claim will “help children discover Jesus.” For $29.95, the doll promises to “provide solace for the elderly and the infirm, for those in recovery programs, and those in emotional duress.” The real Lord is just too ethereal. “It’s hard to hug air,” the company notes. They planned to follow this doll with the release of “God the Doll,” a two-foot rag-doll with white hair and a long beard, completely machine washable, of course.

We are far too sophisticated for Golden Calves, but suckers for tacky stuffed idols.

Think this is a bit overboard? Here is a companion thread: Precious Moments in American Religion.

[jboot]

Nice, that one is a keeper. Especially the scripture references. I always need them and don't have them.

[Terabitten]

Don’t tell someone who is suffering that God had nothing to do with his or her suffering.

In August 2001, I stood in a pit on a hillside in the former Yugoslavia. The pit was about fifty yards long, fifteen feed deep, and about the width of a bulldozer blade.

That pit was filled with bodies - victims of the massacre at Srebrenica. That moment, standing there in that stinking pit, changed my life forever.

God was there in that mass grave. He wept with me. Every day since then, I've asked Him for His forgiveness for what I saw. Every day since then, He's forgiven me for it.