Protest Weekend

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Today is April 20, and crowds of people are flocking downtown for numerous demonstrations on just about every available issue under the sun: the IMF and globalization, the Mideast conflict, the war in Afghanistan, military operations in Columbia, taxation without representation, and probably a few other causes which I missed.

Meanwhile, as rallyists gather for their march to the Capitol, clouds are gathering for a possible repeat of yesterday’s violent thunderstorms. Not a good day for outdoor demonstrations, I would think. As I told the guys at the office yesterday, either God supports globalization, or the CIA has developed secret weather control devices to activate during these rallies.

Add to that the vague terrorist threats against local banks, and you have the recipe for a fun Saturday huddled indoors, blogging news links all morning.

On the bright side, it looks like they won’t be drilling more holes in Alaska’s Arctic Wildlife Refuge. Personally, I think the money is better spent on researching a workable matter-antimatter warp drive.

Hail and Thunder

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Whoa, we have some pretty fierce weather outside right now. The windows are being pelted by grape-size pellets of hail and the thunder is one long continuous rumble.

I wonder how those protesters are doing.

Update: Now it’s bright and warm and sunny again.

Reformed Baptist scoffed at?

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Why do conservative Reformed Christians view the concept of a “Reformed Baptist” with scorn? Is there some quintessence of being Reformed which the Baptist denomination is missing? I’m sincerely curious: what is it about Baptists that makes an oxymoron out of “Reformed Baptist?”

Plane crash in Milan

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A Piper tourist plane has undergone uncontrolled contact with the Pirelli Bulding in Milan. Accident or terrorist attack? I’m leaning more towards “accident” right now, seeing as how the pilot radioed in about technical problems before crashing.

Mozilla and Baptism Cult

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Currently typing this entry with Mozilla 0.9.9. Hmmm. It’s not wrapping the textarea field. How annoying.

And I have also been email and guestbook-spammed by New Life Mission, and if I’m reading their “born of water and the spirit” blurbs correctly, they seem to believe in the heresy that baptism is a necessary step in the process of salvation.

Thank God we know better. True salvation is from Christ alone, and not by immersion in water.