Confessions of a Recovering Pharisee

[Cleveland Leader]

Peekaboo Pole Dancing, the company behind Carmen Electra’s pole dancing kit, announced a few weeks ago that they were seeking a partner to license a pole dancing game for the Nintendo Wii. Since then people around the world have been asking the same question: “Why?”

MTV caught up with the Peekaboo people, and spoke with a company rep who said:

“Peekaboo will be all about fun and fitness for a new generation. Peekaboo wants to make the fitness benefits of aerobic pole dancing accessible to millions of Wii users. The goal is to encourage men and women of all shapes and sizes to improve their pole dancing skills while having fun, toning up and burning calories. Ultimately Peekaboo and AT New Media want to do for pole dancing what ‘Guitar Hero‘ did for rock n roll!”

As for the pole peripheral development, the game’s ESRB rating and how the game would actually work (we imagine you’d need hands on the pole as well as on controllers), he declined to disclose those details. Kay did claim that the company is already in talks with developers and publishers for the Wii title, though they “will still entertain other third parties.”

Peekaboo also said that they were looking for a mobile phone partner to bring a similar game to mobile devices.

Source here.

[From me]

What’s next?  How about just Wii for prostitution?  Why not a game to teach the art of strip tease?  Why not just virtual sex?  Even unbelievers should see the dangers of something this stupid.  But I doubt it.

What do you think?

I’m a well educated man.  I’m pretty technical and creative.  I just spent a week developing a new website for our church and I couldn’t get it to work.  You know what I did?  I misspelled the city I live in in the domain name!  Oh my, what an idiot!

[USA TODAY]

Dana Jacobson, co-host of ESPN2’s First Take, will remain off-air until Monday for comments at a social event she now says were “foolish and insensitive.”

Jacobson spoke at a roast of ESPN’s Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic in Atlantic City Jan. 1. Onstage there, according to The Press of Atlantic City, she was “swilling vodka” and “cursing like a sailor” and made “an absolute fool of herself” as the crowd booed.

That prompted her current one-week suspension. Says ESPN spokesman Mike Soltys: “She’s been disciplined.”

Ironically, the Orlando Sentinel says Jacobson was one of those who defended Golf Channel’s Kelly Tilghman when she was being criticized for using the word “lynch” in reference to Tiger Woods.

Read about it here.

[From me]

Apparently she dropped a few “F” Bombs about Notre Dame and Jesus. Why is she only getting a one-week suspension when Jimmy the Greek and Rush Limbaugh get fired for just expressing their opinions. Now their opinions were misguided and I don’t agree with them. But they didn’t use profanity. They didn’t say things about someone’s religion. Why weren’t they suspended for only one-week? No, they were fired. There is a double standard.

Jacobson offended the Catholic church for sure. But as a Protestant Christian I’m offended too. I’ll bet she would have been fired had she said the same about Muhammad, Buddha or made a racial slur.  Should she be fired?  I don’t know.  I would rather give her a second chance.

But, where is the consistency?

What do you think?

[HT] bryan allain

[These are my thoughts and not those of Campus Crusade or my parents]

 Here are the facts about religion and chaplains in the military:

1. In the military, there are Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish, Islamic  etc chaplains.
2. Each chaplain is free to share his faith beliefs all he wants within the military guidelines given him. They are not muzzled.
3. Each chaplain is responsible for providing for the spiritual needs of all the soldiers under him or her. Therefore they provide and announce:

• On Sundays, on many bases, there are different services available for Roman Catholic and Islamic and for any chaplain who chose to provide his.
• Buses pick up some to go off post to Synagogues, Mormon temples, Greek Orthodox etc.
• Even Wiccans can meet as a group as long as the meeting is open to anyone.
• No one is compelled to attend any meeting but can attend any if they choose.

4. Any chaplain can use volunteers to teach classes on Sunday morning as long as that volunteer teaches under his or her supervision.

• Chaplains can recruit their volunteers from the community.

5. All belief groups want to share their beliefs to the world. In the America, they are free to do this as long as they do it by the rules.

For some reason those who are not followers of Jesus have problems with Christian groups ministering to the military.  Here is what I want to know:

• I want to know if there are Pagan, Wiccan,  Buddhists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jewish and other groups who send missionaries to the military who raise their own financial support?
• Are their atheist groups who raise their own financial support to assist the military in their emotional and educational needs?
• Show me where the Military Ministry of Campus Crusade has violated the Constitution?   The Separation of Church and State was to protect the Church from the State not the other way around.
• What harm is being done to our military?
• Do those who have a beef really care about the military personnel or are they trying to make a political statement?

These are questions I want answered.  I’m tired of being called a “right-winged bigot” and a “fundamentalist” and every form of profanity in the book.  Personally I’m ready for the US to leave Iraq but I support or military and our leaders.  I’m a follower of Jesus who wants to fulfill the calling God has given me.  I follow the laws and I’m tolerant of other’s beliefs.  It’s time the “other” beliefs showed a little tolerance of Christ followers too.

What do you think?

I kept noticing a lot of traffic in the last few days from people going to a story I wrote about Evangelist Paula White. I couldn’t figure out why until I found out that this week she and her husband Randy filed for divorce.

Read about it here.

Through personal challenges (Randy’s 29-year-old daughter reportedly was diagnosed with a mature brain tumor) and their callings taking them in obtuse directions (Paula, an evangelist, conference host, T.V. host and author is away frequently), the glue in their marriage dissolved.

Every time one of these high profile marriages falter it always bothers me. My wife always reminds me that it is hard to keep a marriage going when the couple is apart. I hate to hear about anyone’s marriage falling apart. This is sad.

What do you think?