Pam sleeps very soundly. This morning I had to wake her up not because her alarm didn't go off, but because she was sleeping right through it and had been for 15 minutes. Volume wasn't the problem. I am a very light sleeper, waking at the slightest noise and then unable to get back to sleep unless it's quiet.
Pam needs to be in her own bed or something very similar in order to sleep. The one exception is the car; if we're on the road for more than 20 minutes she's OUT. But she has to be comfortable in order to sleep. I can fall asleep anywhere. This summer on my way up to Seattle I pitched my bivy on the ground, rolled out my bag and fell right to sleep. Pad? We don't need no stinkin' pad! I kicked the pine cones away but that's all it took.
Makes me think of that childhood song, "Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean. And so between them both, you see, they licked the platter clean." (Do you now have that tune going through your head? You're welcome.)
Even a basic civilian GPS unit can get a car to within feet of a fixed point, and you know the military has the really good stuff. So why does commercial aviation still use radar?
I watched the Amanda Knox verdict live this afternoon. Hard not to feel her emotions at hearing the court's decision. But boy, did CNN do a lousy job at translating. Perhaps it was the court's translator, but if so they should have turned that down and had their own do it. Almost unintelligible. On the other hand, if we'd been able to see her hands....
Hank Williams Jr. should stick to singing and stay away from talking, at least in public and certainly on FOX News. He spoke his mind, which turns out to be the problem.
Most Christians have never heard of Dominion Theology, aka Reconstructionism and Theonomy, but that's about to change. The movement was pretty big 30 years ago and then died down about the time of the Gulf War. It's making a comeback and advocates include some pretty big names within contemporary theology, including C. Peter Wagner and John Hagee.
The movement comes in different forms with advocates both hard core and soft, but the basic premise is that the civil sections of the Mosaic Law still represent God's ideal for a righteous society and should form the basis for U.S. law. Thus, the goal of Dominionists is to reform our society to conform to OT structures and practices. If we're going to be slightly technical, they are Covenant in their theology and post-milennial in their eschatology. That means they think the OT applies with the same force today as then and Christ will come back to earth when his people have brought about conditions which align with his righteous character. Dominion Theology represents the extreme opposite of dispensationalism both in theory and practice.
The practical outcomes of Dominion Theology include a pretty aggressive approach to politics with an unashamed push for Mosaic standards of law and order. The phrase "separation of church and state" doesn't come up a lot in those circles. Nor do words like tolerance, compassion and pluralism. More than one observer has noted the parallels between Dominion Theology which pushes for a society reflecting OT guidelines and the Taliban which seeks to enforce Sharia law based on the Koran.
And the reason you're going to hear more about this in the weeks and months ahead? Certain Presidential candidates have fostered fairly close ties with some of these individuals and welcomed their endorsement. Seems rather problematic to me. We'll see where it goes from here. In the meantime, dispensationalism cleans up a whole lot of problems.
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