Pursuing Holiness

I loved this video, and a big hat tip to Defiant Infidel who emailed me a copy, which led me to Google Video for a convenient online version. It’s funny just on it’s own, and obviously has a good message about the health benefits of having a bit of exercise, but it’s also not a bad statement on how so many people live their lives. Including me, at times.

I recently got into a long, drawn out conversation at Hot Air with a someone who seemed to be a college kid, defending Jesse Jackson Al Sharpton Charlie Rangel’s statements that (to paraphrase) only poor minority kids with no good options ever join the military. Eventually he accused me of “projecting things that I didn’t say, and then me trying to clear that up instead of a debate” and while I think it’s fair to say I was picking some nits, I also think his own words did an excellent job of convicting him and that I wasn’t “projecting” anything. I think it was just pretty uncomfortable for it to be pointed out just exactly how his liberal outlook translates to normal English. The final example in the series - his response to my statement that anyone who didn’t know they had options besides the military to pay for college was too stupid to enlist.

They’re not “too stupid” to know other options…they just aren’t given those options, or at least not nearly as clearly as someone in a higher socio-economic position.

How does that not say that poor people are more stupid than rich people again? Needing to have something explained to you more “clearly” than it is explained to someone else? Well, nothing like being stuck on stupid, just like these folks are stuck in the video. Waiting to be rescued instead of acting on their own behalf. Waiting to be notified of college funding options instead of investigating. This is not restricted to the left. The right upholds Rick Warren in spite of the fact that he’s praising Syria, and including an abortion supporter in his AIDS conference. The left says the right is not compassionate - every election season there are accusations about the mean conservatives starving the poor - in spite of the fact that conservatives are more generous than liberals. It’s just that we like to spend our own money, and not everyone else’s. Except Trent “damn tired” Lott, that is, who we just elevated into another leadership position. He has taxpayer funds to spare. Far too many Christians are waiting for a political savior, when we know that one will never come. Far too many Americans are content to be fed enemy propaganda by the MSM instead of finding out the truth.

Of all the things there are a shortage of in the world, we do still have idiocy in abundance. So enjoy the video!

written by Laura