05:24 am - QotD
The Gathering: "The next generation of believers seems to be making social justice issues such as poverty, disease, orphans, clean water, etc. a real priority. What do you think about that?"
Franklin Graham (son of Billy Graham): "None of that is our mandate. Jesus never said, 'I want you to go out and alleviate the poor in the world.' ...So many churches and so many pastors today are going directions Jesus never told us to go into. He said, 'you'll always have the poor with you.'"
-- interview, September, 2009
"Dr. Graham seems to have forgotten about Matthew 25:31-45." -- Louis @ Blogger, 2009-12-18
"Right, it's official. They have a different Jesus to the
one everyone else knows about." --
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ironed_orchid,
2009-12-20
To those celebrating the second most important holiday of my faith today (as opposed to doing so on the Julian calendar), and to everyone celebrating a secularized be-with-family day or the even more secular Conspicuous Consumption Day: Merry Christmas! To my friends not celebrating today (or celebrating Chinese-food-and-a-movie day), I wish a happy and peaceful day upon you too, and hey, at least the incessant Christmas Muzak is nearly finished for the year, eh?