Here I Go Again....Groundhogs!

Since I live a bit south of the famous Groundhog, Phil, he simply had to make my blog.

Today we will find out his latest prediction for the whole winter thing. Six more cold weeks? Early spring coming?

I simply don't get the idea of it, it seems mean. Imagine being  yanked out of your safe, cozy home, early in the morning, into a bright light, with people standing around cheering.

Oh....wait a minute....I guess I was! Guess we all were, once anyway. I digress.

Of course he sees his shadow, how could he not with all the flashbulbs going off and all. And of course we will have six more weeks of winter, check the calender.

But the best part.....spring is coming. Mother Nature is getting ready to wake up, forget about the groundhog.

He's a rat!....Don't believe him!  I Never did!

What? He said what?

Pat speaks.

Pat Robertson must have foot in mouth disease, or suffer from dementia, unless he is just plain insane. In my opinion his ideas and teaching are extremely wrong.

While some believers may trust in an angry, vengeful God, I think most do not. What God would punish innocent people in Haiti for things supposedly done generations ago?

I know there are places in the old testament about God's wrath some will reference in an attempt to prove this concept valid.

But this is a negative God, not one of love. This god's love is extremely conditional.  This god believes in the concept of "the sins of our father", sort of a negative way of paying it forward. This god wants us to live in fear, pass judgments, punish offenders mercilessly including entire extended families.

How are these ideas different that those of the extremists we are to be so afraid of.