Christ Animated

Though these are far from exhaustive, these five "statements" are truths that have shaped my life, and continue to do so. I share them with you, for whatever that's worth. > Today is the only day we have been given (yesterday is gone, & tomorrow hasn't arrived) - so live in it, for the Lord! > Can you do anything about another person's attitude? Not really. But you can do something about your own. > People are not basically good. All people are basically evil, until God changes them. According to the Bible, no one can do things that are intrinsically, everlastingly good unless God's Holy Spirit lives within them. So love people to the Lord. > No one should expect lost people to act like they are saved. Expect lost people to act like lost people. Expect saved people to act like saved people. > You should always be the first to ask forgiveness, and the first to offer it.

I can't stand it. I am so weary of seeing article after article, book after book, from intellectual snobs who make and remake the same claim and accusation. The only thing that changes (moderately) is the accuser and the accused. Authors claim J. R. R. Tolkien was not an original author because he owes so much of his mythology to actual mythology. Others claim the same about C. S. Lewis, J. K. Rowling, etc. To answer as with as deep intellectual enthusiasm as I can muster at the moment, "Duh." Of course Tolkien owes much of his mythology to actual mythology. He was a professor of such, for Pete's sake. By the same claim, the author of the book making the accusation can be accused of only being able to publish said book because of what Tolkien did. Plagiarist! Liar! Thief! Any book written about lovers in New York borrows from every other story told about lovers and set in New York. Gasp! Any spy novel borrows ideas from actual events and the authors of sp