Monday, July 18, 2011

15 Reasons Why Beer Is Better Than Religion

So, here I am at Course of Study at Emory/Candlar in Atlanta, having deep discussions about theology, the Wesleyan Movement, doctrine and faith issues and I find it fascinating, challenging, insightful, stirring, inspiring, and, at times, a little confusing. I guess these classes are serving their purpose, right?

Anyway, I check out a YouTube clip that a friend brought my attention to of a current New Testament theologian, Marcus Borg, who I found interesting, insightful, not that I agreed with everything he had to say but he made some good points, nonetheless. In one of his introductions he made mention of the following list and, after some research, I post it here, with a few tweaks and additons. 

I mean to offend no one in posting this. I just found it insightful, challenging, fascinating... and funny!

PS: I couldn't help but think of my high school friend Mark as I read this, who has an amazing ability to find amazing and pleasing beers. So I have been told.

15 Reasons Why Beer Is Better Than Religion:

  1) They don't force beer on minors too young to think for themselves
  2) Beer doesn't tell you how or with whom to have sex
  3) No one will kill you for not drinking beer
  4) No one has ever been hanged, burned at the stake, or tortured for  
choosing the wrong kind of beer
  5) When you have a beer, you don't go knocking on people's door trying to

give it away
  6) There are laws saying that beer labels can't lie to you
  7) If you've devoted your life to beer, there are groups who will help you stop
  8) You can prove you have a beer
  9) Beer never caused a major war
10) You don't have to wait 2000 years for a second beer
11) You don't have to get dressed up to have a beer
12) No one expects you to believe that every word in a beer commercial is
literally true
13) Beer labels include a warning about the dangers of drinking beer
14) No one gives you wine and expects you to believe it's beer
15) Beer is easier to swallow

Saturday, July 09, 2011

A Quote About Discipleship

(Jesus) is something—someone—worth losing everything for. And if we walk away from the Jesus of the gospel, we walk away from eternal riches. The cost of nondiscipleship is profoundly greater for us than the cost of discipleship. For when we abandon the trinkets of this world and respond to the radical invitation of Jesus, we discover the infinite treasure of knowing and experiencing him.

- David Platt. Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream (p. 18).