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So this post does not strike you as odd, I am the admin here and yes I am a Reverend as well so with that said today I was looking through the bible to prepare a reading for a wedding this weekend. While I read it made me think of some of the past posts I have made like the recent one about the state of the world today. I cannot help but to constantly wonder what causes a human to think they are doing God’s work by killing. Killing in the name of God they say so proudly. Now correct me if I am wrong but is pride not one of the greatest of sins? Anyway what I found was this little passage in the bible that makes my beliefs ever more prominent.

1 CORINTHIANS 13:4-8a

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude.
Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
Love never ends.

What this says to me is that God is the one who has shown and given us all love, it tells me that He is not a spiteful, arrogant or resentful God. We “men

Recently my uncle Kenny D. Shaw asked me to take a look at his upcoming children’s book and after sitting with one of my daughters and reading it from cover to cover we both decided it was surely a great book and looked forward to its upcoming release. It is now about a month later and the book is finally here as with an optional cd to accompany the book.

The idea for the book originated from a poem written by a Donald L. Slater. Donald came to my uncle Kenny and asked him to record the poem. The outcome of the recording was so uplifting to the two men that they decided they could play their part in making the world a better place by writing a children’s book with beautiful pictures of gods creations on display and the words from the poem. All of this and a cd to go along with it for families to use as a tool to instill love and togetherness into their children before mainstream music and media gets their claws into them.

You can find out more about the book titled It’s a brand new day and purchase it by visiting It’s a brand new day.net

Well this is only one opinion of many but I have to comment on this. Saddam Hussein, a man of great disgust to me and to many others I am more than sure. He was hanged to death tonight. Are we out of our damn minds? With this gesture that was made in his hanging we have made it very clear. Not only are we just as bad as Saddam Hussein but we are worse as a people. This disgusts me to no end. How are we any better than he? We publicly murdered this man, a real human being. Despite what he has done he was still a human. He had a name, a family, and even if I do not like to admit it I am sure he had friends. He was born of 2 parents. Not only did we publicly murder him but also people rejoiced at his death.

Let me ask a few questions here.
Would we hang a prisoner or would we use a more humane method such as lethal injection?
I am lead to believe that we would use the needle.
How long has Saddam Hussein been in custody and was he still a threat to anyone after his capture?
I think not. Not unless our prison system is lacking which in the case of such a fowl person as Saddam Hussein I think that we would have made absolute sure he would never get out.
Do you feel better to know that now that Saddam Hussein is dead others will follow?
Do we not realize that an eye for an eye only results in everyone becoming blind?

I don’t know. All I can say is I hope that the world learns a great lesson from this. The first one all of your parents should have taught you long ago. Two wrongs do not make a right. The other lesson I hope we all learn is that in order for the violence and hate to end the bigger man has to be just that. You may think I am out of line or hate me for this post but I really do not care. I speak from experience here. I once had a beautiful wife and someone that I once called a friend killed her. I hated him for this for the longest time and I even had the greatest of opportunity to kill him and many would say it was within my right. Well I gave him one look. This worthless used up excuse for a human and I then raised my eyes up and what did I see. His children. What kind of man would I be if I took their fathers life away to satisfy my feelings of hatred and need for closure? The fact that life was lost is enough for me to say that no more shall be. There is only one being that has the right to give and take life. That is God! The one we as a great nation live under. So please think on that a bit. We are not here to have war or to kill. We are here to live, love and die naturally and that is all. Remember the one guarantee you have in life is that it will come to it’s own end without help and when that time comes you will have to answer for your every decision you made in life.

Here we are in 2006, big media has infiltrated all of our homes. I have noticed a huge shift in what gets airplay. Has anyone else noticed that God has been bleeped out of some songs. One in particular is Panic at the disco – I write sins not tragedies. The word God is silenced. Why is this. Is it now against the law to say God on the air? I hear words like whore, bitch, fagot, references to hardcore drugs and how cool it is to sell them. What the heck is going on? So yes in this song maybe it is about how the word is used.

Well does it really matter with all the garbage that spills out the speakers already. I live in the United States. One Nation under what? God I thought. I also thought freedom of speech was a God given right. This is not something that any constitution, person or country can infringe on. If you don’t like it do you not have the option to just not listen? Switch the dial! Maybe the am band is more appropriate for you. I mean really my child gets to listen to Black eyed peas – my humps, Eric Clapton – Cocain, Kelis – Milkshake. Are these songs any less offensive?

What is the message we are bringing to our children with this? I threw my radio out! No it is not because I have a problem with what I hear, I am capable of changing it if it is offensive. It is that I have a problem with what I don’t hear. This is our “freedom” or may I should say was.