Musings of a madman

It's getting late, but I've come across some rich reads over the last few days that I wanted to get in your hands. Away we go!

• The Three-letter word. I have been teaching on events during the end-times in my church's adult Sunday school class, and one key principle during this time will be God's focus on national Israel, a final plea that they might turn toward their Messiah. With great interest, I read this article in the Jerusalem Post. In it, Emanuel Feldman laments over how Israel has evicted God from the public square, how they have evicted God from their lives. He states,

  "But there seems to be a certain self-consciousness about God on the part of our politicians, our intellectual elite, our media personalities, our cultural spokesmen - a certain anxiety and unease about the public use of His name. They are going well beyond the letter of the law in the second commandment, Thou shalt not utter the name of God in vain. Not only are they not uttering God's name in vain; they are not uttering God's name, period."

• Education without its Source. In an attempt to be unoffensive to any by not permitting God in the public school, we offend those who desire God and His influence in that setting. This troubling truth was recognized also in the Jerusalem Post by columnist David Benkof (here). A great read. He knocks away any distractions and avers:

  "RIGHT NOW, if you're secular and want to educate your children with your values, you can do it for free. But if you're religious, you have to pay thousands of dollars to do it... What's worse, you still have to pay the government an annual fee - sometimes based on the value of your property - to educate other people's children with values you don't agree with."

He tackles it from an observant Jew in Israel. Change it to Christian in America and you get the same deal.

• NBC draws the line. Well, it's nice to know they have some standards. It's just sad that their standards turn good and bad on their heads. Remember that video I linked a few posts ago? Here it is, in case you missed it. That's what NBC won't run. We will no doubt be subjected to entendres (single and double) and blatant garbage all in the name of advertisement. But lauding that President Obama is here because of a decision his mother made crosses their established ethical lines?!? You can read their linguistic gymnastics here.
  

That's all for tonight. Just wanted to keep you in the loop.