First--let me post that I really don't care too much for my job right now. Between my alleged white supremacy and what can best be described as a wholly irrational boss relative to a different matter--I am a man beaten down. Next week is spring break, and I'm lookin' forward to our trip to AR.

So with that said, let me offer you all this bit of internet crack.

And regarding those vid clips--I watched them both, but found the guest to be... well, annoying. As were the hosts, but we're focusing on the guest. While we all can certainly identify with his content--I am simply not impressed by a person that bitches and moans at reality without offering a viable alternative. And if you've got a viable alternative to a potentially broken model (example: the church), don't just talk or whine about it; do it. Create it. See if it's actually a viable (and better) alternative. Sitting in the back of the classroom and being disruptive by shouting out negative comments doesn't help anything. Yes, the church is flawed. Yes, humans (who happen to believe in the saving grace of Jesus Christ) are flawed. Yes, our perspectives of God and Christ are flawed. But to take on the rebel persona to dogmatically state these points just rubs me as high-school-aged maturity; he is no better than those in which he criticizes. I may have appreciated him at age 19; I do not at age...whatever I am now. 32 or 33 I guess.

So I wonder how much of this guy's message is lost in its presentation. Yes--the picture-perfect pre-packaged and polished religious model is not only flawed...it's inaccurate and likely counterproductive to the great commission. And there's little question in my mind that those who subscribe to such a model, do so for personal (i.e., psychological) reasons--and those reasons may not be Christ-centered. But his arguments would have been so much stronger had he simply acted his age. And that, I guess, is what bugged me. Instead, he seems proud of the fact that this was "His only time being invited on the show!!! Ever!!! Oh look at me, I'm such a Rebel!!!"

And to a certain extent, I'm currently struggling with similar concepts described by the self-proclaimed anti-establishment anti-authority rebel for God. A good example might be Bill Mallonee, as I really don't seem to get the same enjoyment from his music as I might have had in the past. (Prior to learning to his new marital status.) Is this my Amy Grant vs. the satanist? Or is it that I seemingly lost the refuge that I thought I once had? I would opine that his rebellion has tunneled his perspective.

P.S. My cell phone shattered last night; won't be waiting for the iPhone, because all I want is a phone.