Busy Day at Work
Not really. A couple of groups are checking out; we have a group checking in tomorrow. One of the “bigger, fancier” groups is in today–I spaced and wore jeans. Oops.
I’m moving over to Blogger from Xanga. I like the interface a little better, and when I finally get around to updating my personal Web site, I’ll be able to better integrate everything. Decided on “The Screed” as the name of the new blog. Don’t know why; I remember reading that somewhere once and it stuck. Have no clue what it means.
Does anyone know the keyboard shortcut for switching between tabs on Firefox for Mac? On Safari, it’s command-shift-arrow, but that doesn’t work in Firefox.
Interesting thread in one of the political forums I watch. The most amusing isn’t the conservative vs. liberal argument, instead it’s the complete faulty logic used by one of the posters:
I’d like to address this constant reference to “Blessed are the peacemakers”, as an attempt to further your anti-American and leftist views. Some take quotes from Sermon on the Mount, and make ethical mistakes with it. Deadissue, the Sermon on the Mount is a declaration of personal Christian ethics, not the rules corporations and states should be run by. If you read Romans Chapter 13, you will see how God says governments should be run: with justice,
mercy and grace.
First off, merely disagreeing with someone does not make them “anti-American,” and being “leftist” doesn’t cut the bill, either. Have we really degenerated so much as a society that civil, tactful, intelligable debate is lost? But I digress.
The poster is correct, that the Sermon on the Mount is a declaration of personal Christian ethics. However, at last check, corporations and states are also run by persons, and when those persons confess to be Christians, then they should run their corporations and states under the same ethics.
Moreover, governments being run by “justice, mercy and grace,” as the poster points out, are built upon the assumption that their leaders follow the same ethics as outlined in the Sermon on the Mount. Without those ethics being in place, the rest of the assumption falls apart.
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Daniel Ross-Jones serves as Minister for Youth & Young Adults at First Congregational Church of Palo Alto, United Church of Christ. Living in the San Francisco Bay Area for a time still measured in months, he is frequently getting lost and discovering treasures of a landscape very different from his Upper Midwestern roots. Green Jello Hotdish is a blog exploring the intersections of his days. 
