Notes from Bentucky

There's this little village in a southeastern Washington river valley that is like so many others...so many others that are hidden jewels. Benton City has garnered the name "Bentucky" because it is considered backwards by the raised noses of the near-by communities. We like it that way. It's "Back Home in ol Bentucky" to the strings of mandolins, banjos, fiddles, dulcimers, guitars and the like. Take off your cufflinks and other puffery and join us!

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Friday, February 17, 2006

Is Nothing Sacred? (or "Bountiful Clerics")


Ain't it exciting watching the news lately? A Moslem cleric has put a $1M bounty on a cartoonist! Good grief....is nothing sacred?!

I was thinking that it's time for Lutheran pastors, Catholic priests and Jewish rabbis to put bounties on Moslem clerics. Now there's a worthy goal for a Sunday (Saturday) worship serivice collection. Can't you just see the reader board on the markee or the goal thermometer showing the growing donations? It certainly makes better use of donated money than building church buildings. Puts new meaning to bountiful religion. don't know that it's what God intended bountiful to mean, but then, who cares anymore? Religion is just a political vehicle to most anyway.