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Don't you just love that expression? I do. Anyway, this Sunday a very pleasant lady who attends our church whom I do not know personally made a joke during the service, the implication of which was that Democrats are "less Christian" than Republicans. Right off my husband looks at me and silently pleads for me to just let it go. I held my tongue-- I knew I would only come across as humorless if I contradict a joke infront of others. But on the way out the door I made a point of making sure everyone knew I was offended. I don't know the numbers; it may be true that Republicans attend church in higher numbers than Democrats. It wouldn't surprise me if that were the case. But to somehow believe that being a Republican makes one a better Christian? Are there people in the world so uneducated and narrow minded as to believe that? It doesn't even matter whether or not I am a Democrat or a Republican. (I vote both ways, often. Neither party represents by beliefs particulary well.) In my Bible, it says the way to Him is through his son, my Lord Jesus Christ who died on the Cross for ALL ours sins (I don't remember Him excluding Democrats) and not through George Bush. Shouldn't a person have the right to believe that? End of soap-box. Anyway, I wasn't all that terribly offended-- just frustrated with something that should be kept out of the service-- and I kind of hope the woman who made the remark (who has very likely heard about my reaction by now) doesn't feel badly about upsetting someone. I haven't had much time to blog lately. I have done my annual "end of the school year" inventory of our progress, and figured out where we have done well, and where I need to step it up to meet our goals. Spanish: we've come very far but there are some gaps that need filling in. Music: we're doing well in piano playing, but our classical studies about the composers has fallen off badly. Math: No problems, ahead of the goal. Science: right on target. Engish: literature got pushed aside, but we did well in writing and penmanship. Geography: we're doing very well, 9 year old now knows and can locate all 50 states, the Great Lakes, and many countries and regions of the world, as well as interpreting population statistics and reading coordinates. One other thing that happened in our schooling: my 6 year old was working in his phonics workbook on adding the "ing" ending to verbs. The book had the sentence: "The mommy was rush to her job." He was supposed to add "ing" to the verb. He stops dead in his tracks, and I asked him what the problem was. He said, "The sentence doesn't make sense. How could a mommy have a job?" I laughed a long time about that one! |
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