(Please excuse my lack of lucidity, I'm quite ill and drugged up the wazoo and still I'm stuck at work. Yay.) With much interest I've read the conversation occuring on KFC's thread here , specifically concerning the Hindu prayer offered in the United States Senate floor. For those of you who haven't seen exactly how it went down, I'm giving you YouTube goodness (or badness?) here. Watch it. I know that I've already asked the question "Does God or country come first...

I recently read a letter in the Reader's Forum of a local newspaper, The Salt Lake Tribune . The author of this particular piece was specifically talking about Mitt Romney, criticizing him for saying that he and his family are patriotic when his sons, rather than serve in the military (which I guess, according to the author, is the only true way to be a patriot), served as missionaries for the LDS church for two years. He further stated that "country should be placed before God". That d...

I have sat here, watching a televangelist on TV. There is nothing holy, Christlike, or Godly in his talk. For an hour now, he has spoken about “sowing a thousand dollar seed” and that if the 300 people that God has chosen will give their 1000 dollars, they will be made millionaires. Of course, they have to put a disclaimer on the bottom that says “Miracles are blessings of God and Inspiration Ministries cannot guarantee miracles.” Except that's not what the guy is saying – he's promisin...

I sat here in my little teller cubbyhole at work, hearing the words repeat over and over, in the inane, vacuous, insipid song - "I Can Only Imagine". It's a "cute" little song that deals with what it would be like to see Jesus again and what you would do. While I guess the sentiment is okay, I found myself wanting to throw the company-supplied radio across the room, out the door, out onto Fairfield Road and under the eardrum-saving wheels of a passing truck. Why? Because it's pop mu...

I don't know how many of you are familiar with the state of Utah, but if there's one thing Utah has going for it, it's lots of Mormons. They make up over half the population of the state, after all. Now, that's not a bad thing, don't get me wrong - I do happen to be one myself, so I can't go hating on the population of which I am a part - but it does lend itself to a lot of closed-mindedness. Currently up on "the Hill", where the State Capitol building is, there is a bill that a Sen. Butta...