Freedom's just another word...for Chocolate from God
Americans love freedom. Looooooove it. I mean, everyone on the planet loves freedom, and those living in the few countries where freedom is pretty much restricted to the rich and powerful, they love it, too, especially since they don't have it.
Americans also like to live in the delusion that nobody really has as much freedom as Americans do. That's because Americans don't get out much. I was born and lived in Texas, which is great, but overseas for Texans is like, Oklahoma, and Texans aren't big fans of OK. Sooners. Yuck. Then there are the rest of the states, which, for Texans, are forgettable except for Colorado, which actually is the only place Texas wishes it was. I live in Colorado, and when I tell Texans that it wishes it were Colorado, they go all starry-eyed and say, yeeeessss, and then ask, Do you suppose Colorado is for sale?
Anyway, the rest of the world outside of Texas and Colorado is like outer space for most Texans, and the rest of the world for most Americans is also outer space-y. Who cares? And, if they have some vague, liberal, socialistic form of what they try to call freedom, it's not nearly as good as our American freedom that came straight from God. American freedom is the BEST.
Here's the thing. We love freedom too much. We love it more than we love Jesus.
Whoa! I hear you saying. I do NOT! That's just sick and wrong. Freedom is from God and it's awesome, but I still love him more.
So there's some things you need to know.
First, freedom is a fine thing. But so is Chocolate Decadence Cake from Whole Foods. Once a year I get some on my birthday, and maybe by the time that my next birthday rolls around I might have lost the weight I gained from the previous cake. I should have shared more of my cake and eaten less of it.
Freedom is like anything else that we humans have access to. Some of it is great. Too much of it can be dangerous. And we should have shared more of it with others. And really. Worshipping Chocolate Decadence Cake (which we'll abbreviate to CDC, not to be confused with the Center for Disease Control) would be a very bad thing. Refusing to share it with others - very bad. I'd blimp up like Goodyear and eventually I would be talking to the Center for Disease Control, but not in a good way.
And as much as I am fond of CDC, it's not from God. I say this as a guy who used to eat Lindor bars in Switzerland at my desk, which I would buy 2 dozen at a time (the blue wrapper kind, which have now morphed into the black wrapper kind) and I called them Chocolate From God. Nobody ever argued with me about it, either. If there is Chocolate From God, it's blue/black wrapper Lindor bars. Made in Kilchberg, btw. If they're not made in Kilchberg, it is a false god. I went to high school in Kilchberg, so I am an authority.
I digress. Neither CDC nor Lindor bars are from God, so there's that yin/yang thing going on, some good, some bad, some capacity for misuse.
Freedom is not from God, so there's that yin/yang thing going on, some good, some bad, some capacity for misuse.
So pay attention.
(My books are available for purchase at www.lulu.com/spotlight/andyfletch42 and www.lulu.com/spotlight/andyfletch)(The former is books on American Christianity, the latter is books on 20th and 21st century physics and cosmology and really, they're all very cool. IMHO.)
Americans also like to live in the delusion that nobody really has as much freedom as Americans do. That's because Americans don't get out much. I was born and lived in Texas, which is great, but overseas for Texans is like, Oklahoma, and Texans aren't big fans of OK. Sooners. Yuck. Then there are the rest of the states, which, for Texans, are forgettable except for Colorado, which actually is the only place Texas wishes it was. I live in Colorado, and when I tell Texans that it wishes it were Colorado, they go all starry-eyed and say, yeeeessss, and then ask, Do you suppose Colorado is for sale?
Anyway, the rest of the world outside of Texas and Colorado is like outer space for most Texans, and the rest of the world for most Americans is also outer space-y. Who cares? And, if they have some vague, liberal, socialistic form of what they try to call freedom, it's not nearly as good as our American freedom that came straight from God. American freedom is the BEST.
Here's the thing. We love freedom too much. We love it more than we love Jesus.
Whoa! I hear you saying. I do NOT! That's just sick and wrong. Freedom is from God and it's awesome, but I still love him more.
So there's some things you need to know.
First, freedom is a fine thing. But so is Chocolate Decadence Cake from Whole Foods. Once a year I get some on my birthday, and maybe by the time that my next birthday rolls around I might have lost the weight I gained from the previous cake. I should have shared more of my cake and eaten less of it.
Freedom is like anything else that we humans have access to. Some of it is great. Too much of it can be dangerous. And we should have shared more of it with others. And really. Worshipping Chocolate Decadence Cake (which we'll abbreviate to CDC, not to be confused with the Center for Disease Control) would be a very bad thing. Refusing to share it with others - very bad. I'd blimp up like Goodyear and eventually I would be talking to the Center for Disease Control, but not in a good way.
And as much as I am fond of CDC, it's not from God. I say this as a guy who used to eat Lindor bars in Switzerland at my desk, which I would buy 2 dozen at a time (the blue wrapper kind, which have now morphed into the black wrapper kind) and I called them Chocolate From God. Nobody ever argued with me about it, either. If there is Chocolate From God, it's blue/black wrapper Lindor bars. Made in Kilchberg, btw. If they're not made in Kilchberg, it is a false god. I went to high school in Kilchberg, so I am an authority.
I digress. Neither CDC nor Lindor bars are from God, so there's that yin/yang thing going on, some good, some bad, some capacity for misuse.
Freedom is not from God, so there's that yin/yang thing going on, some good, some bad, some capacity for misuse.
So pay attention.
(My books are available for purchase at www.lulu.com/spotlight/andyfletch42 and www.lulu.com/spotlight/andyfletch)(The former is books on American Christianity, the latter is books on 20th and 21st century physics and cosmology and really, they're all very cool. IMHO.)
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