Last night I watched "The
Sky at Night". When Patrick died (that's "Sir
Patrick" to everyone else!!) there was a campaign to ensure
the programme kept going. In retrospect they show should have ended
with him. With a comet in the sky and space probes approaching Ceres
and Pluto, last night's show was entitled "What have UFOs
done for us". It wasted half an hour explaining in broad
outline that which anyone who has ever heard the word "astronomy"
already knows in great detail.
Imagine tuning in to what
you would imagine being a degree-level lecture and being told that
today we are going to do colouring-in...
I slept like a log and
awoke to find "Furry Face TM" had
done likewise. Over brekkie it seemed little had really changed in
the world. The only real thing of any interest was that people I've
never met were tweeting at me. I wish they weren't, and asked them
not to.
I then took "Furry
Face TM" for a walk. For a dog feigning
exhaustion he soon perked up when he saw his lead. We went up through
Bowens Field and round to Viccie Park where we scrapped with a few
other dogs, got given free dog poo bags, and generally had a mostly
uneventful walk (for once).
I came home to find I'd
been tweeted at again despite having asked people not to do so. It
seems that having been mentioned in a posting about a comet three
weeks ago I'm going to get messages about the thing in perpetuity.
Then someone who's never
actually been to the astro club started chipping in on postings on
the astro club's Facebook page that are nothing to do with them...
As I drove to work the
radio featured an interview with someone claiming to be a leading
light in the
evangelical alliance which Wikipedia says is an umbrella group
for evangelical Christians in the UK. This woman was being
interviewed to explain how she can reconcile being an active
Christian with being an active homosexual. Apparently this has been
done by studying scripture. It transpires that because God loves
people then being gay is OK. Even though scripture says it's not. To
quote God "Leviticus 18:22 You shall not lie with a man in
the same way you would lie with a woman, it is considered a sin and
surely both men should be put to death"
Don't get me wrong -
personally I think that God is wrong here, but how can those who are
taking the Bible to be true read this any other way than what it
says?
If you look into this
mopre deeply it's mentioned elsewhere in the Bible too. What winds me
up is that Christians are allowed to pick and choose which bits of
the Bible they want to accept, and are still taken seriously.
I got to work, did my
bit, and at lunch got to have a half-way decent saxophone practice.
It was cold, but there was no small dog shouting along.
And with work done I came
home again, and felt rather guilty as I ate my tea. Every bite was
watched by "Furry Face TM" but
he's now on a diet. He had none.... I feel awful.
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