Dig the zany hijinx of those rascals from the Religion of Peace®. (Do I seem to be belaboring the point? Yes, I suppose I do.)

I just finished reading State of Fear by the late Michael Crichton (October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008). This is definitely recommended reading. I want to share one short excerpt from the book. Crichton was not a Christian, but, at one point, managed to invoke the name of Jesus accurately, which is more than I can say for the majority of the WWJD crowd.

   One of the leading characters is holding forth on the billions spent “researching” and combating the fiction of global warming. He complains that all that money could be spent on genuine humanitarian causes, such as AIDS in Africa. “In another world,” he says, “it would be a criminal waste.”

At the very least, we are talking about a moral outrage. Thus we can expect our religious leaders and our great humanitarian figures to cry out against this waste and the needless deaths around the world that result. But do any religious leaders speak out? No. quite the contrary, they join the chorus. They promote ‘What Would Jesus Drive?’ As if they have forgotten what Jesus would drive is the false prophets and fear mongers out of the temple.”

—Michael Crichton, State of Fear (HarperCollins, 2004), 457.

Of course, fair and balanced as I am, I offer you this alternate viewpoint.

This ( 7:54) may or may not be fair and balanced, but if you don’t think it’s funny, you’re just wrong.

If you think the election of Barack Obama marks an historic milestone in the fight against racism, think again ( 7:54, HT: Biblical Christianity).

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” [George Santayana]. Regarding socialized medicine, we’ve been here before, and I don’t mean Hillarycare. Listen to a voice from the past — fourty-eight years past — explain how it works ( 10:06, HT: The Constructive Curmudgeon).

This post, which is just a conversation starter from one pastor to others, reminded me of how big a job our pastors have, and how much they need our support and prayers.