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23rd
April
2007
Ben Witherington: CHRISTIANS AND GUN CONTROL: AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME?
I’ve refrained from commenting on the terrible massacre in the US last week thus far – what more is there to say really? I spent half of Thursday evening when I was sick stuck in front of Fox News watching the home videos of Cho being played endlessly – despite their mostly solemn faces the journos seemed to be lapping it up.
Here in Australia very few people have guns and gun ownership is not a big political issue – and when it was an issue back in the 90s after the Port Arthur killings our government moved swiftly to tighten up gun laws and hundreds of thousands of weapons were turned in. So all this makes it hard for us to appreciate just what a hot potato this issue is over in the US. I don’t necessarily see gun control as being a religious issue – it just sounds like plain common sense to me – however in the above article theologian Ben Witherington makes a strong scripturally based case in favour of stricter gun control. Thought provoking and well worth reading.
Categories : Christianity, News |
23rd
April
2007
So it’s the start of yet another week. We had a pretty good weekend. My illness that I had on Thursday and Friday resolved fairly quickly and by Saturday I was fine – I put it down to the fact that I dosed myself on just about every drug I could find on Thursday! Spent a lot of time outdoors on the weekend, had some meals in our patio while the weather is still good, went for bike rides and visit to parks, swam in the pool. And then on Sunday afternoon we got some decent rain as well so had some nice inside time with the rain pelting down on the roof.
Spoke to the insurance company today and was told that repairs have been authorised for our car. Still haven’t heard from the repairer though and I imagine it will be quite a while before we get the car back. And when that happens I’m planning to probably trade it in and get a new model, since I’m not sure I want to hang onto a car that has that much damage to it, no matter how good a job they do on the repairs.
This week is a split week since Wednesday is ANZAC day – for anyone overseas who doesn’t know, ANZAC day is the holiday in Australia and New Zealand where we honour our soldiers who have fought and died in the various wars over the last century or so. It specifically commemorates the landing of our forces on April 25, 1915 in Gallipoli, Turkey in 1915. I’ve always found it somewhat fitting that our national memorial day for the armed forces commemorates what was ultimately a great defeat at Gallipoli. It’s a good thing that Australia honours our soldiers no matter whether they won or lost… One of the traditions for ANZAC day is eating ANZAC biscuits, which are these yummy oatmeal biscuits. Jen and the boys made up a batch on the weekend and they didn’t last long at all.
Categories : Australia, Personal |
