That Baptist Ain't Right: The Flu is not Fun

Thursday, January 31, 2008

The Flu is not Fun

Really not fun.

Today I am supposed to be in Atlanta at the New Baptist Covenant but that ain't happening. Instead, I am contemplating my existence somewhere between this world & the next, the bedroom & . . . & . . . somewhere else. It looks like another dimension. Not sure what it is. Remember the TV show Quantum Leap? I feel kinda like Sam Beckett after he leaps into a new place. No clue where or how or who. I do know I'm here, I just don't know where the heck "here" is right now.

I know my head is pounding.

Really not fun.

I did manage to call Cedric Harmon from Americans United & tell him that I wasn't going to be there. I think I was supposed to call Stephen Fox, too, but I can't find his number. I had it. I put it somewhere for safe keeping. Now . . . my mind is not working too well. I know I had it somewhere. I was hoping to have a meal with Dr. Prescott from Oklahoma's Mainstream Baptist. And then there was the meeting with a few from Baptist Life that I was looking forward to attending. (Forgive my not putting in the links but frankly I don't give a rip.)

It says here in my calendar I was to see some of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship folks. And I had planned to stop by the American Baptist Convention booth & talk in person with those I've converesed with online. I have a few seminary friends who ended up in the North American Baptist Conference (a good group) & I was so hoping to see them.

My eyes feel like sandpaper is running across 'em.

Really not fun.

I think it's the flu. My wife says it is just a cold. I know better. Its the flu at least. Maybe even the Plague. I haven't felt this poorly since a certain girl tore my heart out & stomped on it about 30 years ago. (But I'm all over that now.)

My throat is killing me.

Really not fun.

So I am missing one of the most historic meetings ever for Baptists. Why? Because one of your kids gave my kid The Bug. And my kid brought it home. Then that bug got in my air at my house & invaded my nostrils & attacked my immune system.

I'm highly ticked off.

Really not fun.

So whomever it was that allowed their kid to go to school & infect my kid so in turn could infect me . . . a pox on you!

I guess that means Baptists will endure without me. Hopefully, none of those folks will hire any Methodists to enforce a contract on my life. Of course, that would end my misery.

Did I mention I feel like crap?

2 comments:

Big Daddy Weave said...: I'm sorry you got sick.

I won't rub it in - but the Celebration was incredible.

Cedric Harmon. I haven't heard that name in a long time. But back when I was a graduating senior at UGA, I applied for an internship with Americans United and interviewed with Mr. Harmon. I think he found my application fascinating because of my senior seminar paper on Baptist hero, Fred Shuttlesworth. I never had the opportunity to intern with AU though because the next day Rep. John Lewis called and offered me a job.; February 3, 2008 at 2:22 AM
texasinafrica said...: It was amazing. Two words for next time: flu shot. Hope you're feeling better.; February 4, 2008 at 1:23 PM

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"The notion of a Christian commonwealth should be exploded forever. ... Government should protect every man in thinking and speaking freely, and see that one does not abuse another. The liberty I contend for is more than toleration. The very idea of toleration is despicable; it supposes that some have a pre-eminence above the rest to grant indulgence, whereas all should be equally free, Jews, Turks, Pagans and Christians."
--- John Leland, Colonial Virginia Baptist, "A Chronicle of His Time in Virginia," as cited in Forrest Church, The Separation of Church and State, 92 (2004).

"Religious matters are to be separated from the jurisdiction of the state, not because they are beneath the interests of the state but, quite to the contrary, because they are too high and holy and thus are beyond the competence of the state."
--- Isaac Backus, New England Colonial Baptist, An Appeal to the Public for Religious Liberty, 1773.

" 'The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live and fear breeds repression. Too often, sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to freedom of the mind are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-Communism. Today, it's the cloak of anti-terrorism.' [Adlai] Stevenson also remarked, 'It's far easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.' "
--- Adlai Stevenson as quoted by TV lawyer Alan Shore on Boston Legal in the courtroom scene "Stick It."

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. . . Our government. . . teaches the whole people by its example. . . If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy."
--- Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. United States in the dissenting opinion, later vindicated in Katz v. United States.

"When fascism comes to America, it will be draped in the flag and carrying a bible."
--- Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here, 1935. (Common spurious attribution, but an oh-so-true statement.)

“Hope has two beautiful daughters: their names are anger and courage. Anger that things are the way they are. Courage to make them the way they ought to be.”
--- St Augustine.

"To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you are wasting the time you spend thinking deeply. One of the rewards to deep thought is the hot glow of anger at discovering a wrong, but if anger is taboo, thought will starve to death."
---Jules Henry, Culture Against Man, 1963.

"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."
--- George Carlin (1937-2008) .

"Honesty is not something you flirt with — you should be married to it."
--- Table Top at Joe's Crab House, Aurora, CO.

"It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't."

--- Martin Van Buren.

"The Religious Right is a reminder as to why we have the 1st Amendment --- people can't resist forcing their religious interpretations onto others if others won't willingly acquiesce."
--- TBAR, 07/04/08.

"I'd rather have an honest Atheist in power than a corrupt Christian."
--- Ed Edwards, 09/01/08

“Government has no more to do with the religious opinions of men than it has with the principles of mathematics. Let every man speak freely without fear, maintain the principles that he believes, worship according to his own faith, either one God, three Gods, no God or twenty Gods; and let government protect him in so doing, i.e., see that he meets with no personal abuse, or loss of property, for his religious opinions....”
--- John Leland, Colonial Virginia Baptist minister and religious liberty advocate, The Rights of Conscience Inalienable, 1791 pamphlet.

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