Soap Box

Read this interesting article about a controversial Tim Tebow ad, supposed to air during the Super Bowl:

http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ap-tebow-superbowlad&prov=ap&type=lgns

Terry O’Neill, the president of the National Organization for Women, said she had respect for the private choices made by women such as Pam Tebow but condemned the planned ad as “extraordinarily offensive and demeaning.” “That’s not being respectful of other people’s lives,” O’Neill said. “It is offensive to hold one way out as being a superior way over everybody else’s.” Seriously? Did she really just say that out loud? I guess she did. I mean, I suppose that I knew that people actually thought that way, but really... Hmm... Aren't Terry O'Neill, the rest of the N.O.W (which, by the way, I neither want nor need any representation they claim to offer) and many other organizations/people pointing the finger at Christians for being intolerant while all in the same breath screaming out their own intolerance? I mean, really what they want is for no one to claim to know truth. They are intolerant of the truth. Isn't claiming that there is no certain way to God and no absolute truth a truth claim in and of itself? Yes. It is. Why is celebrating life a point of offense for people? When God said "don't murder," t'was very clear that it was not something that He was leaving as a gray area for us to ponder or figure out what was wrong/right for each of us to do. He didn't leave any room for question. He said "don't." We can spend our time being offended if people call us out about not aligning ourselves with truth, but at the end of the day, we are offended by God and not man. And let me just say that I don't think that God wrongly offends anyone. If we are offended by His word, let us beg Him to change us to agree with Him about the issue instead of pitching a fit about having our feelings hurt... I'll be climbing down off of the soapbox now. =)