To Be Clear . . .
I am an evangelicalliberalnondenominationalprogressivedemocratrecoveringbaptist, follower of Jesus.
To be clear, in the preceding sentence, the mashup labels to the left of the commanotafullstop account for 00.0001% of what I believe and/or value.
To be clear, I did not vote for Obama in the last Presidential election, I voted for McCain because he was running on the “grumpy old man with a nutty, loose cannon sidekick” platform and it seemed like the movie made in the later years after his presidency would be a hoot and I also voted for Bush 43 both times and Clinton 42 both times but I don’t recall voting for Bush 41 because, while turning out to be a pleasant old man he’s about as uninspiring of a candidate as there ever was, and I know I didn’t vote for Reagan 40 simply because there was no way I could support someone who used that much Brylcreme while I do seem to recall voting for the Rev. Reggie Jackson during that time frame because he was entertaining to listen to . . . wait, that might have been the Rev. Jesse Jackson, I’m thinking of, but I will be voting for him this next election.
To be clear, the part on the right side of the commanotafullstop in the sentence way up above account for the other 99.9999% of what I believe and/or value.
To be clear, by follower of Jesus, I mean that I buy the entire package, the virgin birth, the son of God, the substitutionary sacrifice, the cross, the death, the kicking death’s ass resurrection, the physical appearance post resurrection, the feet leaving the ground ascension, the one day when he’s good and ready, feet touching the ground return, the kicking satan in the nuts and His restoration of this tiny little bit of His creation to it’s glory as described in the bible, especially the last part as described by John who was clearly doing ‘shrooms with whatever passed for that era’s equivalent of vodka and Red Bull on a who knows how long bender.
To be clear, I believe the bible is an accurate representation of everything that God wants us to know about Him, His story, His plan and whatever else He thinks is relevant to our life both here and in the here after and that there are a lot of parts He intentionally left out because we are too @%#&* simple minded to comprehend them in this dimension without our head popping like a watermelon tossed from the top of the Ed Sullivan Theatre ala David Letterman.
To be clear, I accept it with all it’s weird parts, hard to understand parts, seemingly contradictory parts, parts that I would have left out if it was up to me because I don’t agree with them, the parts that I’m glad he left in because I do agree with them, especially the parts where all the critical characters are so screwed up that I can relate to at least some part of the stupid, careless, selfless, egotistical, self serving things that they do and that there are no flawless bible “hero’s” and that makes it very relevant to me and my life and my #$%& up’s and that there are lots of bible “hero’s” that redeem themselves and their faith by doing the right thing thru being, well mostly, just by being obedient and humble.
To be clear, I am occasionally obedient and humble but all the other time I’m a recovering douche bag who struggles with narcism and various other not so pleasant characteristics and would not be even as obedient and humble as I am without the mercy, grace and strength I get from being a follower of Jesus.
To be clear, I’m done with all the run on sentences and the wordmashupsthataredifficultto read . . . at least for now.
I hope I’ve made myself clear.
Carry on.