This Week in God

Mother Jones magazine has devoted its whole issue to God and Country. It's been more than 200 years since the founding fathers established separation of church and state. Many seek to do away with that separation and will even try to establish God's kingdom right here in America.

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In Alabama there is a bill proposed that would put "God Bless America" on most every license plate across the great state. If you don't want that, then you would order specialty plates. Alabama is a "Bible" state, you know.

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In the UK, there is a film to be sent to 26,000 UK primary schools which teaches them the Christmas story including a lesson that "Jesus" is not a swear word. Not enough British children are attending church on Sunday.

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The Blessed Virgin is crying blood at a church outside Sacramento, California. Red stains appeared, were wiped away and then they reappeared a week later.

When I was a child, the large icon of Mary periodically wept at the beautiful Greek Orthodox church near my house. We kids would line up to get a glimpse of it and wonder if someone had attached a garden hose to the back of the icon.
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Today the Pope ushered in the Christmas season on this first day of Advent. He said, “We could say that Advent is the time when Christians should awaken in their hearts the hope that they can change the world, with the help of God.” Indeed.

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Speaking of Christmas, upside down Christmas trees are all the rage and flying off the shelves. I considered getting one, but I opted for a green metallic Dr Suessian tree I found on eBay.

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I just realized that I used the word Christmas a few times here. I am supposed to use the word "Holiday" instead so that I don't offend anyone. feh. It's typically ironic that in the effort to not offend anyone, so many people are offended. Those fringe liberals really piss me off. There are so many injustices in the world yet the debate about what to call a decorated tree should be the least of our problems. Take a prozak and call me in the morning, for gawd's sake. Christmas trees should be called just that.
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