What's Your Team?

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

Modern war involves selling your soul to the nation state.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

Nothing can take away from your love.
No matter how hard we try to alienate you, you continue to dote.
No matter how far we think we stray from your ways, if we turn we find your loving eyes watching over us.
No matter how cruel life becomes for us and how we think you have abandoned us, when things improve for us, we might notice your wounds look like ours.
Nothing can take away from your love.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“All I said was, ‘Give to God what is God’s.’ What’s so revolutionary about that?”

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

D. Blog: Spring Training

Religion as Baseball
- Calvinists believe the game is fixed.
- Lutherans believe they can't win, but trust the Scorekeeper.
- Quakers won't swing.
- Unitarians can catch anything.
- Amish walk a lot.
- Pagans sacrifice.
- Jehovah's Witnesses are thrown out often.
- Televangelists get caught stealing.
- Episcopalians pass the plate.
- Evangelicals make pitches.
- Fundamentalists balk.
- Adventists have a seventh-inning stretch.
- Followers of Islam have stretches after innings 2, 4, 6, 8 and at the end of the game.
- Atheists refuse to have an Umpire.
- Jews think they wrote the rules of the game.
- Methodists have the game down to a science.
- Baptists want to play hardball.
- Hindus insist on playing again – a for different team next time.
- Agnostics watch from the sidelines.
- Buddhists in the stands remain relatively quiet when their team scores – one hand clapping makes little noise.
- Buddhists on the field won't catch flies.
- Premillennialists expect the game to be called soon on account of darkness.
- The Pope claims never to have committed an error.