If You Enjoy It, God Hates It

God doesn't know your phone number, does he?

Usually fundys have to blather on about feminazis, abortion or the evils of universal health care to make me foam at the mouth, but these two asshats got me with a dog. A really cute dog.

We are getting rid of our dog, Jake. Before you jump to conclusions about
why we're getting rid of him, let me tell you why.

It's not because we don't love him, it's not because we can't handle having
a dog, it's not because it's too stressful, it's not even because we can't play
with him, it's simply because we feel that the Lord is telling us to do this.
Why? We know one reason is because Jake can be a distraction to us. It takes
time and effort to have a dog, time that really isn't producing fruit that's
worth it. Sure, he's fun! We LOVE spending time with him and training him, but
ultimately it's not going to produce fruit that will last for eternity. We can't
train a dog to win souls for the lost or pray out the plan of God! :) Too
bad!

No, but you could take responsibility for the animal that bonded with you, the animal that trusts you and loves you.





First of all, that flippant little "too bad" at the end makes me think they didn't really like the dog all that much. If you look at the pictures of Jake, you'll see that he is a Chocolate Lab. Labs are the sweetest of dogs, but they are fairly large, high energy, very playful and require a lot of patient, consistent training. I personally think these people have a dog they can't handle and are passing off their decision to dump the poor dear as "god's will".





However, suppose they truly don't want to give up their precious Jake? Suppose, despite evidence to the contrary, that they are heartbroken over being "forced" to give up their dog? What does that tell you about their god?





Oh my, is that an extra second you have there- PRAY! Do you have to pee so much? You're wasting time that could be used to pray. Sleeping is for atheists, you should be praying! Are you enjoying that? You shouldn't be enjoying things- you've got god! Is there anything else you enjoy, perhaps books or music or pretty clothes? Give that up, too! There is nothing of yours god does not require- he demands it all!





Yeesh, what a bleak life that must be. I sincerely hope they're just immature dog dumpers, because the alternative is pathetic.

Random Monday

1. Climate Change: It's 60 degrees outside (15C). I live in Pennsylvania, and it's January. That's about 30 degrees higher than it should be. (Highest normal temperature in PA for January: 32F/0C.) And just so everyone will get sick, the high for tomorrow is indeed 32.

2. The Weather (Wo)Man: In the Northeastern United States, winter is cold and snowy. It regularly gets well below freezing, and it regularly snows. If you so much as mention a snowfall of less than 6" (15.24cm), you will be forever known as that nervous person who is afraid of snow. So why does every single weather(wo)man treat 1/2" of snow as the first stage of the apocalypse?

3. Extreme Makeover Home Edition. My MIL loves this show. If you've never seen it, a bunch of terminally cheerful people replace a falling down home for free. I think it's exploitive of the poor/suffering, and a wonderful example of drive by charity (Here's a bunch of stuff- your life is all fixed now!). At this point, however, I am wondering when we will see the apex of pathetisad.

You see, the first season of the show, they picked poor families whose homes were falling down around them. Apparently, however, simply being so poor that you can't maintain your home, so that it becomes actively dangerous, just isn't enough. You need to deserve all this charity, so the recipients became increasingly pathetisad as seasons went by. Nowadays, you not only have to have an unbelievably sad present, you also need a pathetisad past and you have to give outrageously to charity- generally in terms of time, because none of these people have money.

So far, I've seen family with child dying of cancer who started a charity for other children with cancer. (The family got a nice house, the child died.) I've also seen Native American family living in a trailer without electricity with a wheelchair using family member. Last night, the featured family member was a Jamaican woman who, as a child, walked 8 miles to school and 8 miles back barefoot.

Then, for some reason, I had to listen to Ashanti blabbering on about how fixing this woman's house, and doing cosmetic work to other houses in the neighborhood, would teach the entire world to sing. Or something.

I figure we'll hit the apex of pathetisad sometime late this season, and then hopefully they'll end the show on a high note. Or, low note. It's a little hard to say.

4. Mass Effect 2: I actually don't need to say anything.



The music, btw, is Heart of Courage by Two Steps From Hell. It owns me.