Thursday, January 3, 2008

Hate makes me sick

I stayed home from work today because Stephanie is coming to visit! I wanted to make sure that the house was clean and I could spend a good part of the day with her. Since I've been fooling around with my broken laptop for the past several days, I figured I'd take the time to deal with the HP Service people. I think that two fried hard drives in a week is a little more than coincidence, but whatever. I swear, I can't keep a laptop.

After I finished my call (and they told me they'll send me one more hard drive before they'll try to service the whole thing), I determined that it was time for breakfast. Yay for leftover homemade pecan waffles to make me happy again.

As I sat down to eat, I came across a TV show on HBO called Friends of God: A Roadtrip. I watched it, spellbound. I actually even cried a tear or two during certain parts because I was so disturbed. After the show was over, the first thing I wanted to do was pray...pray for the people the documentary highlighted.

Preaching bigotry and hate? Preaching politics? I was particularly disturbed by the last few scenes of a Battlecry concert with rock music and teenagers jumping up and down as scenes of war with the hint of crusade flashed across the arena.

Please don't tell me that it is wrong to want equality and allow for the basic civil rights of others but it isn't wrong to worship in a drive-thru church, go to Biblical Mini-Golf, and declare WAR against those without Christian values?

I'm sure Jesus, the King of Peace, would be proud.

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