Handling the Bible: A contrast

I have no doubt that in the next few days, we will learn who received Sarah Palin's first kiss and how many desks received her bubble gum in first grade. Considering Barack Obama's pastor received such media scrutiny, "it's only right" that Governor Palin's pastor, the Reverend Ed Kalnins, receive as deep an examination.

Do you know what they found? He believes that the world is going to face a horrible time and then Christ is going to come back to the earth (GASP)!

Folks don't get Christians because they don't get the Bible. David Gushee, a "Christian" ethicist at Mercer University in Atlanta, Georgia, said about Palin's biblical understanding of the Bible, "To me, it is highly relevant to someone who potentially has her hand on the nuclear button," he says. "If that is her worldview, I would want to know about that."

Oh, yeah! All of us who believe what it says in Revelation want to hasten Christ's return by nuking the world. Sarcasm aside, how is it that they always find the Christian ethicists who believe nothing of what the Bible says? And how is it that folks think your whacked when you expect God to fulfill the Revelation the same way that He fulfilled the rest of His prophecies (i.e. just like He says He will)?

On one side, the media thinks you're daft for holding to the word of God. On the other side of the ghastly coin, they love you to pieces of you say you're a Christian but disregard the majority of what is written.

The heretical head of the Episcopal Church in America, Katherine Jefforts Schori, received "sunshiney" treatment from the USA Today. While the Episcopal Church had been in tenuous straits for awhile as it drifted left in its ordination of women and views on abortion and marriage, Schori's eleveation to Presiding Bishop has begun a splintering of the denomination already in decline.

How heretical are her views?

She sees two strands of faith: One is "most concerned with atonement, that Jesus died for our sins and our most important task is to repent." But the other is "the more gracious strand," says the bishop who dresses like a sunrise.

It "is to talk about life, to claim the joy and the blessings for good that it offers, to look forward.

"God became human in order that we may become divine. That's our task."

You can mark my words that those churches that have separated themselves from the "bishop" will thrive (in the eyes of God).

Kalnins holds to the Bible and is seen as nutty as a jar of Jiff. Ms. Jefferts Schori does her best Eckhardt Tolle with God's word and is praised for her personalized vestments.

White has become black and black has become white.