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Sean Penn, Are You Out There? Are You Done Milking The Public?

Published on February 23, 2009 in Just Having Fun!. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

            I am not sure why it has become the new intelligentsia cause to free the homosexual community of this curse that says they are not normal until they marry.  And we are all bigots if we do not agree with them and change 10,000 years of culture without a debate.

 

            On a number of occasions citizens of various states have voted on the question of whether to allow homosexuals to get married.  Every time so far the public has said no.  That includes Hawaii and California, two of the most liberal states in the Country. 

 

            The self-proclaimed leaders of this new movement, intellectual giants like Sean Penn and Brad Pitt, keep insisting that we are all bad if we do not believe like they do.  Brad Pitt aside, I am giving him a pass because Angelina and Jennifer seem to be getting ready for a good old fashioned paparazzi fueled feud, which by the way, I am looking forward to—even though Sean keeps telling me, at the press conference that seem to follow him around, that the paparazzi are bad.

 

            The good news is that last night Sean’s declaration did not come from Iran or Venezuela, rather it came from a country a little closer to home.  The free state of Hollywood.  You know, it is that place where reality is suspended.  People who can imitate other people can even come to believe that they are as smart as those they imitate.

 

            Of course, this rule does not apply to Ronald Reagan, because he did not toe their party line, and yes, I am using the term party in the same way McCarthy used it so well so long ago.

 

            If they love these foreign dictators so much, why don’t they go there and demand equal rights for the homosexuals?  Maybe the reason they are demanding it here is because they hate this country and know that such a radical move could destroy much of what we believe in.

 

            Of course, they have to speak well of Iran and Venezuela when they are there because if they say anything negative in those countries they could be killed for their seemingly intelligent statements.

 

            I did not watch the Oscars.  As my wife says, I did not see any of the movies that were nominated. 

 

            Remember when we went to the movies to be entertained and not preached to?  That was back when we went to church to be preached to and not entertained.  Maybe we have gotten everything mixed up and therein lay our problem.

 

            Next week I am calling all my friends together, it won’t be a large gathering, and they are going to give me an award.  I will buy a trophy to make it real.  We will roll out some red carpet and…oh, you get the picture.

 

            Oh, well, Sean, enjoy the trophy.

Bill Maher, Hero Of My Faith

Published on October 10, 2008 in The Bigger Picture. 1 Comment Tags: , , , .

            When the new “movie” by Bill came out I just ignored it, much like I do Bill’s entertainment show from the left coast.  Today I started rethinking my position on Bill Maher.  I would like to declare that Bill is now a hero of my Christian faith.  Do not get me wrong, he is not the only one—I am declaring every Hollywood nut case who declares war on Christianity a hero of the faith.

 

            I probably need to explain this quickly before you accuse me of heretical statements.

 

            Like everyone else I struggle with my faith.  I struggle with its value in everyday life.  I struggle with it in the dark days we all stumble through.  At the end of my struggle I always land on the side of turning to my faith to get through the good days and the bad days.

 

            If there is nothing to Christianity, if Christianity is merely a crutch the weak lean on, if Christianity is the foolish dream of old ladies and the weak minded, why do some people—claiming to be smart—dedicate so much of their energy trying to discredit it?

 

            Why would Bill Maher dedicate so much of his time to ridiculing Christianity?  The first answer makes the most sense, but it is not the best answer—there has to be more.  The first answer is that he is making a lot of money ridiculing Christianity in particular and religion in general.  We all do a lot of things for money.  Some of the things we do are good and some of those things are bad.

 

            The second and, I expect, more truthful answer is that Bill Maher hates God.  I am sure that Bill would claim that he only hates those who claim to speak for God, but just the little I have seen of Bill begs to differ with him.  His rants are not anti-the-people-of-God, they are anti-anything-to-do-with-God.  Furthermore, they are very angry rants.  Bill Maher is not casually sitting around thinking bad thoughts about God—he is angrily spewing his twisted opinions on everything Christians hold dear.

 

            The more time Bill Maher spends mocking God and claiming He does not exist, the more encouraged I am in my own faith.  After all, if God does not exist, why are people like Maher spending so much time arguing with Him or about Him?

 

            If there is no God who is the fool, the person who believes in a God that does not exist, or the person who dedicates their life to fighting a God that does not exist?  I think the answer is easy.  The real fool is the person who dedicates so much of their time fighting something they do not believe exists.

 

            I do not believe in Santa Claus, but I spend no time arguing with people that he does not exist.  I do not spend time trying to discredit the people who believe.  Santa has done a lot of evil in this world.  What about the harm to the poor who find themselves virtually ignored by this benevolent giver of gifts to all?  Because Christmas is not good to the poor does that make them bad children?  I think not, but that is what the legend of Santa tells them.

 

            Bill’s ranting against Christianity based on the evil some people do in the name of God is not justified.  That is like arguing against television because there is pornography on television.  It is like arguing against anything that does a lot of good based on the abuse that is also done.

 

            The solution is not to get rid of religion and Christianity.  The solution is to tell people like Bill Maher thank you for confirming my beliefs.  Bill, you really are a hero of my faith.  If you were not so adamant to fight my beliefs I might not be forced to examine them and see that the only person who truly understands is the person who clings to the beliefs of the ancient Christian faith.

 

            Thank you, Bill Maher, you alone prove the existence of God as far as I am concerned.

 

            Rant on brother, the fact that you do not believe is proof that God exists and that His grace is sufficient for us all.  One day you too will believe, the only question that remains is whether it will be in time to save your soul.

Stoned Again–Oliver Stone's Twisted View Of Everything

Published on October 7, 2008 in The Bigger Picture. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

            You have to love guys like Oliver Stone, and Michael Moore—they refuse to let truth or integrity get in their way when it comes to making “movies.”  Never mind the timing of their finished products—right before an election.  Never mind the topic—pretending to be reality based.  Oliver Stone has been doing his best Jerry Garcia on acid—most any day in Jerry’s life if the bios are to be believed—imitation.

 

            I am sure the new movie will be interesting.  At least to the stoned one’s credit he is not presenting this new movie as a documentary.  He is, however, claiming to have inside information on the Bush Administration and thus suggesting that his story is credible.  Who knows, maybe the DVD special features will finally prove that the Bush family was behind the Kennedy assassination.  Or maybe he can prove that the World Trade Center twin towers never existed—they were merely an illusion.

 

            The good news is that few people take Oliver or Michael seriously anymore.  They have their followers, their faithful—I am sure Charlie Sheen gets his call girls from Oliver’s black book.  Michael Douglas, whatever happened to him, probably thought he should play Bush; he was the last President after all.

 

            And now, we find out that the Chinese might be behind the funding of the movie.  Gee, do these guys know that the Soviet Union died and communism no longer holds its charm.  Of course, the charm of communism was only felt by those in power and the Elites in the West who thought that Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a false prophet.  Of course, these are the same people who claim that Ronald Reagan did not have anything to do with the end of the Soviet Union.  They are the ones who booed Solzhenitsyn at Harvard.

 

            Oh, if we could just return to the days of justice, when a man could be tried and convicted before he was shot, but after he had been tortured so badly that he was happy to be shot.

 

            One day there will be a museum for guys like Stone and Moore—it will have a room titled “The Idiots of Hollywood.”  Well, maybe it will be more than a room—it might take an entire state.  Maybe we should put it in the Midwest; that would force these clueless Hollywood folks to actually visit the real America.

Celebrity, the Great American Deception! Ode to Lindsey Lohan

Published on September 15, 2008 in The Bigger Picture. 2 Comments Tags: , , .

            I have had my fill of celebrities telling me what to believe.  So I have some questions for all the celebrities who want me to believe like they believe.

 

            Why should I listen to someone who is really good at reading lines someone smarter than them had to write?

 

            Why should I listen to someone whose only claim to fame is that they can become someone else on stage or in front of a camera?

 

            Why should I listen to someone who wastes more energy in a 5 star hotel suite in one night than most of us waste in a month?

 

            Why should I listen to a group of people who spend more time holding award shows to build up their self-image so that we will be impressed with them?

 

            Why should I hear about politics from someone who never received an education, even though they can play an educated person in the movies?

 

            Here is clue, if your claim to fame is that you look good on the front of a magazine cover, or you can pretend to be someone you are not, or you won an award from a group of people who do the above, maybe you should close your mouth and spend your money more quietly.

 

            Most of us have never been to Hollywood.  We are watching your movies to forget about the pains of life for a time.  We are not watching you because you are smart, or because we think you have anything of value to share.

 

            Entertain us for a time; then, enjoy your drug infested parties, sleep with whoever shows up.  But stop thinking you have anything of value to add to our lives beyond your art.

 

            Why should I care what celebrities think?

 

It is a simple answer; it seems to me that most celebrities cannot think.  Maybe those of us who wait to see what Hollywood has to say really are the stupid ones.