Angelus's Assessments

There comes a time of year when people tend to go one of two extreme ways. They either get super happy feel-good warm and fuzzy, wishing peace on earth and all that, or they tend to turn into giant green monsters that will breathe fire upon all Wal-Marts until they get the best deal for their little kids' Christmas, er, excuse me... holiday presents. Unfortunately, our mass marketing gurus who overwhelm us from, oh... before Halloween through December, tell us things like "Christmas costs less...

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Thanksgiving is over. Well, the holiday is, though hopefully one's state of being thankful for blessings is never over. My last post here talked about being thankful and hopeful. Now I think I see a pattern in our holiday schedule arise out of that.

Thanksgiving is usually the official start of "the holiday season", which is secular-speak for Christmas-time. Of course, there are other holidays of other faiths, but as I am a Christian, my concern in this blog is of Christian...

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I am thankful to God for a lot of things. My wife. My job. My house. My family. My friends. My car. Food. Liquid refreshment. Pets (I'm coming around on the yappy dog who needs to pee every ten minutes). I'm thankful the Dallas Cowboys were able to rediscover their offense for at least one game Thursday. And, of course, I'm thankful for my church, the ELCA, and even its recent decision regarding human sexuality.

The reason I am thankful for that last one is quite simple. It has forced...

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*For quite some time now, I have heard and read from many people of Lutheran Synods, particularly the LCMS and WELS, that members of my synod (ELCA), and the Synod itself, are not confessional. Sometimes, I wonder if this is a good thing. Other times, I wonder if there is simply different interpretations of the Confessions. So, I went and looked up the Augsburg Confession and read through the sections dealing with where the main differences tend to lie. As it turns out, on the subject of who can...

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Recently, some, uh... very nice people... have told me my avatar and signature on here are anti-Christ and that somehow, since I referenced that it was from a TV show which was fiction, I now believe Christ was fiction...

Does this make sense to anyone? I can understand people being confused by the signature banner and questioning it, but telling me I think Christ is fiction because of it? Something just seems wrong...

As I love to say now, that's just the feces that...

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