Snake Oil Season

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

Those who believe power means control do not know love.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

If you didn’t exist, I’d have to invent you – but I’m just not that creative.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:


“You poor beggars. Blessed are ye, for in years to come, your ragged, holey, dirty clothing shall be fashionable.”

[Maybe He knew, but He didn’t say this.]

D. Blog: Word for the Week

“Discombobulate”

From answers.com:

To cause to be unclear in mind or intent: addle, befuddle, bewilder, confound, confuse, dizzy, fuddle, jumble, mix up, muddle, mystify, perplex, puzzle. Informal: throw. Idioms: make one's head reel/swim/whirl.

Online Etymology Dictionary:

discombobulate

1834, Amer.Eng., fanciful coinage of a type popular then (originally discombobricate).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper

[Another source ties the origin to snake oil salesmen of the Old West. Hmm, sounds familiar, doesn’t it?]