Monday, February 13, 2006

You Couldn't Make These Up
Stranger than fiction:

Cheney Accidentally Shoots Fellow Hunter
It leaves one speechless!
UPDATE: The Daily Show did a GREAT opening 10 minutes on this one.
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Then There's The Danger of Quoting the Bible

Here is a link to a church that has an interesting slogan. As Jordon Cooper pointed out, it isn't often you see a church quoting Satan.

[UPDATE: By now the link above to the UCC church in Limerick, PA will not show the controversial slogan. It seems as if this was the result of a hack into their website. The church wasn't quoting Satan, but someone thought it was funny. The rest of the post still holds true as to misquoting the Bible.]

Actually, I have heard people quote scripture passages that aren't in the spirit of scripture. One I remember was when a speaker quoted one of the (discredited) "comforters" of Job as if it was the word of God. In reality it was a statement that God disagreed with later in the same book. Or when we quote half a passage and not its continuation that takes it deeper.

One of my favorites was always the camp benediction we often used:
May the Lord watch between me and thee while we are absent one from the other.
--Genesis 31:49
Sounds neat, except in biblical context. There it is, in essence, a threat made my Laban to his son-in-law Jacob. Basically Laban is saying "I don't trust you so the Lord will watch over you when I can't."

But it always sounded so nice out of context. Who cares what it really meant, we were quoting scripture, weren't we?

1 comment:

Rev. Mike said...

Check out the follow-up at Benediction Blogs On. Apparently these folks had their site hacked.