I Read A Blog Today...

I visited a blog today that got my hackles up. As I am writing this I don't remember who the person was or what the website was but the content left an impression and drew out some of my ire. She was someone that I would refer to as a "Neo-Christian Organo-Hippie."

I have been watching this sort of persona develop and become fairly widespread among some branches of Christianity. What seems to happens is a blender effect that tries to mix and marry diametrically opposed philosophies. This phenomenon blends the "Green Movement" with an enlightened Christianity and a dash of the New Age. As far as I can see this mixture makes oil and water look compatible. Seriously people, you can make a vinagrette but eventually it will separate.

This particular blog exhibits one of the hallmarks of the N-C-O-H: elitism. Though they never come right out and say it, the implication is always that if you feed you children anything from a box, use plastic grocery bags, and don't buy all of your food directly from a farmer then somehow you are destroying the temple of the Holy Spirit, damning your children to a life of being fat and suffering from irreparable deadly diseases, and really can't possibly be a fit parent. If you have your children vaccinated you must not understand how sick it could make them. If you give birth in a hospital your starting that precious life out on completely the wrong foot.

- I don't pay twice as much for produce because it has a green organic sticker on it.
- I like plastic bags. They are handy. I keep some but the rest I usually throw away when I'm done with them.
- I vaccinate my children because Measles, Mumps, and Rubella really are dangerous. I don't use hand sanitizer because some germs are necessary for fighting disease.
- My kids watch TV but not a lot and not things that we find objectionable. Veggie Tales and 321 Penguins are cool. Disney, not cool.
- I thoroughly disagree with the claims of global warming and all that poppy-cock. You can read my posting about it if you scroll down the page.

I just get really fed up with people believing that they have all the answers and if we just did it their way we'd all be ok.

I have a lot of opinions. I'm aware of that. I'll gladly share them but I try hard, sometimes probably not hard enough, to keep from damaging other people. I'm open to discussion on most things, except one:

God is real. God is just. God requires that we believe in and receive the gift of Jesus' death and resurrection as payment for our sins in order to spend eternity with Him instead of in Hell. Yeah, I believe Hell is real too. Actually, you could just read the Bible and discover all the things that are non-negotiables for me.