John Wesley and Sauer Kraut

Were it not for John Wesley and all the Methodists, I would not have bought a big jar of sauerkraut today. On my best behavior at the church supper, eating things I would not touch at home, I tasted sauerkraut for the first time.  Not bad.  Thanks, John.  It's good that I was not raised Lutheran. I might have to try Lutefisk. Or Lefse.  But who knows, I might like it.  God works in mysterious ways.  That would be real mysterious.

The Grandest old Hoax

Isn't it time for the "Madelyn Murray O'Hair getting religious broadcasting off the air" hoax to make the rounds again?   It's been decades. Oops, I should not have said that.  Somebody will pick it up and get it going again. She's been dead for a long time but  wherever she is, she will be glad to know she is still famous.  Or infamous.

Church people ain't all bad

I like church people.  The ones I know personally are not ignorant fools or dangerous nut cases. They are pretty good people.

Been to heaven?

A commentator about the "I went to heaven" books came up with an interesting phrase.  "Bad heaven theology."
I would say it in more down-to-earth fashion.  "Goofy ideas about what happens when you die." The goofier they are, the more books and movie tickets they sell.  
Is that terribly cynical?  I suppose it is.  Let us hope cynics do not go to hell.

Fake Church Bells

How old and traditional can a feller get?  I am so old and traditional that I don't want to hear those electronic church bells played through big speakers.  If I can't have real bells I don't want no bells at all.

Heavenly Sports?

I suppose there are huge TV screens in heaven, bringing in a perfect picture of every sports channel on the planet. There are lots of fans who will just refuse to go if they can't take sports with them. Not me.  I hope there is a small room someplace, far removed from the crazed sports people.  Just big enough for the handful of us who don't get it about sports. I just want to play my harp, sing in the choir and flap my wings once in a while to be sure my angel license hasn't been revoked. 
As for what hell might be like, I do not want to think about that right now.

Good old King James.

I still like the old Thee and Thou language of the  King James version of the Bible.  Do I believe God reached down from heaven in 1611 and declared it the one, true, final and authorized version of Holy Scripture?  Of course not.