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Sunday Sermonette: 10 Safety Tips For Going Back To Church
byVanderleunonJuly 19, 2020
Well, folks, unless you live in Communist countries like China or California, you can probably go back to church now. Playing hooky was fun while it lasted, but it’s time to get out of our pajamas and head back into church. But the deadly coronavirus is out there. We won’t have to worry about dying once it’s gone, but as long as it’s still here, we need to put safety over other, lesser things like liberty, life, property, and worship.
So here are ten great ways to stay safe when you go back to church:
1) Avoid sticking your entire face into the communion goblet.We recommend using separate straws for each person.
2) Replace side hugs with more sanitary “air hugs.” More sanitary AND holier.
3) Make sure your kids don’t eat the frosting off the donuts and then put them back. Kids are known to do this, but wait until the pandemic is over.
4) Wear pants. This one’s easy to forget after months on lockdown. Especially important if you’re the pastor…
Talk amongst yourselves. Scott Adams said he was going to ban people on his Twitter account who disagreed with the science of wearing the mask. He uses a word that doesn’t mean what he thinks it means, or perhaps the science He is talking about isn’t preventative, but more coercive. We will see.
But this video. Think it too conspiratorial. The Churchians seem to think so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV_aVZsFsgI
PA CatJuly 19, 2020, 3:11 PM
I’d add an 11th safety tip for Roman Catholics: make sure your church has some kind of security setup (cameras, a member who is a LEO, whatever) to prevent (or at least minimize) desecration. A church near the apartment where I used to live was vandalized in midweek: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/satanic-symbol-painted-at-church-in-parish-where-knights-of-columbus-began-17819
I’m a member of a different parish/different denomination, but I once attended a funeral in that church, and I’m heartsick to think of its being desecrated in that way.
In any case, I doubt the criminals who are responsible for these attacks are going to stop with the Roman Catholics.
Kevin in PAJuly 19, 2020, 3:20 PM
yeah, the pants thing is difficult to remember.
And Jewel, re; the video – ….Always for the “Greater Good”.
Globalism = Communism – Islam shares much in common with the communist doctrine and dogma. The globalists will use any vehicle to attain their ends.
Their ends are to have the mass of humanity under their control, as in they are the masters and everyone else is a serf on their global plantation. Debt plays a huge part in this. Ignorance of history, of economics and of natural law contribute as well.
JewelJuly 19, 2020, 4:46 PM
I find it unnerving how cowed people became overnight. Because I quit watching news and stopped listening to talk radio, my frame of mind might be less poisoned, but the Christians seem the most likely to capitulate to the Clipboard Stasis and Karens. Almost TOO eager to help. A good priest I know is completely unquestioning of the Deep State and Deeper Church, and wouldn’t entertain any of the possibilities presented in That video, in what I thought was a quiet and reasonable tone. He thought it all right wing conspiracy quackery. I fear, that when the Burning Looting Murderers come around to my Big Bad Gothic church and make us take a knee for Black Jesus or else, the greater good bishops will publicly apologize for the “See what we made them do to us” destruction. I still haven’t heard from any bishops or even the Pauxp about the burning of Nantes Cathedral. That too, was a See what you made me do to your nice Church.
MargotJuly 20, 2020, 9:12 AM
I’m nearly 74 years old. I have a long-time friend who is, she used to refer to herself as Mexican, now she’s Hispanic. She’s five years older than I. I have known her since I was 19 years old. She has bought the Black Lives Matter BS hook, line and sinker. She thinks all white people are racists, hates the police and hates our President Trump with a disturbingly wild passion. The last time I talked to her, she was so wound up with hatred, I could hardly speak. She has become a useful idiot of the left.
WDSJuly 20, 2020, 11:17 AM
2) Replace side hugs with more sanitary “air hugs
Aww crap. Is this like that jazz hands and elbow bumps stuff? Sheesh….
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Who Am I? by Carl Sandburg
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
Duty, Beauty, Liberty, Country, Honor, Family, Faith — Plus a few simple easy to follow rules for guys
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
Thinkers thought about it
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
Many’s the road I have walked upon
Many’s the hour between dusk and dawn
Many’s the time
Many’s the mile
I see it all now
Through the eyes of a child
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
And close your eyes
Leave it all for a while
Leave the world
And your worries behind
You will build on whatever is real
And wake up each day
To a new waking dream
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
Well, folks, unless you live in Communist countries like China or California, you can probably go back to church now. Playing hooky was fun while it lasted, but it’s time to get out of our pajamas and head back into church. But the deadly coronavirus is out there. We won’t have to worry about dying once it’s gone, but as long as it’s still here, we need to put safety over other, lesser things like liberty, life, property, and worship.
Gerard Van der Leun
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Talk amongst yourselves. Scott Adams said he was going to ban people on his Twitter account who disagreed with the science of wearing the mask. He uses a word that doesn’t mean what he thinks it means, or perhaps the science He is talking about isn’t preventative, but more coercive. We will see.
But this video. Think it too conspiratorial. The Churchians seem to think so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV_aVZsFsgI
I’d add an 11th safety tip for Roman Catholics: make sure your church has some kind of security setup (cameras, a member who is a LEO, whatever) to prevent (or at least minimize) desecration. A church near the apartment where I used to live was vandalized in midweek:
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/satanic-symbol-painted-at-church-in-parish-where-knights-of-columbus-began-17819
I’m a member of a different parish/different denomination, but I once attended a funeral in that church, and I’m heartsick to think of its being desecrated in that way.
In any case, I doubt the criminals who are responsible for these attacks are going to stop with the Roman Catholics.
yeah, the pants thing is difficult to remember.
And Jewel, re; the video – ….Always for the “Greater Good”.
Globalism = Communism – Islam shares much in common with the communist doctrine and dogma. The globalists will use any vehicle to attain their ends.
Their ends are to have the mass of humanity under their control, as in they are the masters and everyone else is a serf on their global plantation. Debt plays a huge part in this. Ignorance of history, of economics and of natural law contribute as well.
I find it unnerving how cowed people became overnight. Because I quit watching news and stopped listening to talk radio, my frame of mind might be less poisoned, but the Christians seem the most likely to capitulate to the Clipboard Stasis and Karens. Almost TOO eager to help. A good priest I know is completely unquestioning of the Deep State and Deeper Church, and wouldn’t entertain any of the possibilities presented in That video, in what I thought was a quiet and reasonable tone. He thought it all right wing conspiracy quackery. I fear, that when the Burning Looting Murderers come around to my Big Bad Gothic church and make us take a knee for Black Jesus or else, the greater good bishops will publicly apologize for the “See what we made them do to us” destruction. I still haven’t heard from any bishops or even the Pauxp about the burning of Nantes Cathedral. That too, was a See what you made me do to your nice Church.
I’m nearly 74 years old. I have a long-time friend who is, she used to refer to herself as Mexican, now she’s Hispanic. She’s five years older than I. I have known her since I was 19 years old. She has bought the Black Lives Matter BS hook, line and sinker. She thinks all white people are racists, hates the police and hates our President Trump with a disturbingly wild passion. The last time I talked to her, she was so wound up with hatred, I could hardly speak. She has become a useful idiot of the left.
2) Replace side hugs with more sanitary “air hugs
Aww crap. Is this like that jazz hands and elbow bumps stuff? Sheesh….