Friday, September 10, 2010

Oxford Baby!



Oxford baby!
i love this little town
especially on a cloudy day
Jack and i are going for a long walk
might walk to town, around town, to the park,
might even walk out in the country
check on the horses.
i drove late last night,
listened to talk radio for a while.
do you think Father told a guy to burn the Koran?
the only thing Father ever burned was the alter before the prophets of Baal,
oh yea, and Sodom and Gomorrah..
but i don't recall any of the apostles burning anything..
there is not much precedent for this in the history of following Jesus,
at least not in any way we deem righteous, right, or holy..
Methodist and Baptist burned Tom Sawyer because they thought it bad for kids,
they felt it taught kids to question authority..
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemons) asked the person in charge of burning his books,
"Would you find the passages in Tom Sawyer you oppose and put them on the board?"
Twain then said he would find some passages from the bible and put them on the board as well..
after the man read the Bible passages he refused to put them up.
He said they were too offensive for children...

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