The United Methodist Church is now telling us to "find your own path." However, God demands that we find His path.
I love to be pampered and mollycoddled. Unfortunately, very few people are willing to treat me that way.
The reason there are difficult, long, and expensive ways to do some things is because the easy, short, and cheap ways to do them rarely work.
I'm not all that concerned with stuff like fighting global warming and funding the arts. Other people will take care of those things. I'm more concerned about stuff that other people won't take care of -- like my retirement savings, for example.
My version of Christianity focuses more on how making the right (and wrong) choices affects us in the here and now and not so much on some future rewards and punishment.
If minors can be tried as adults for crimes they commit, why shouldn't they have the option to be treated as adults in other ways? If we were truly consistent, we would also allow a 16-year-old, for example, to say the following when initially denied a purchase at a liquor store: "No, no, no, you don't understand. I want to buy this as an adult!"
Three little words at the bottom of the TV screen that can negate the contents of an entire infomercial: "Results not typical."
I were a bank teller, there's no way I would give a potential robber any money just because he handed me a letter stating that he had a gun. I would threaten to start reading it out loud unless he showed me the gun.
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