Observations on a Rainy Sunday Afternoon Before Football
I will probably go to a movie rather than watch the Super Bowl, since I have no use for football. My son and I visited the Hunter Museum, which is free on the first Sunday of the month. I cannot say enough good things about the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, and I saw some new pieces of the collection.
I am a big disturbed to find out that someone I had long admired is anti-semitic--or was. Martin Luther. He developed shocking and disconcerting views as he aged. Perhaps a result of his mental illness and depression, but nonetheless wrong and possibly influential in the wrong way. This is definitely an experience of cognitive dissonance. Having been acculturated in fundamentalism/evangelicalism, which reveres the Jews (although in a particular way), I find anti-semitism very distressful.
Our pastor pointed out last week that the Lord Prayer says, "Out Father, . . . give us . . . lead us . . . deliver us . . . . " Not My Father, give me, lead me. This is a paradigm shift.
Finally, I may go attend another biopic. Biopics are "based on a true story," but they aren't true stories. We so want them to be, but they aren't.
I am a big disturbed to find out that someone I had long admired is anti-semitic--or was. Martin Luther. He developed shocking and disconcerting views as he aged. Perhaps a result of his mental illness and depression, but nonetheless wrong and possibly influential in the wrong way. This is definitely an experience of cognitive dissonance. Having been acculturated in fundamentalism/evangelicalism, which reveres the Jews (although in a particular way), I find anti-semitism very distressful.
Our pastor pointed out last week that the Lord Prayer says, "Out Father, . . . give us . . . lead us . . . deliver us . . . . " Not My Father, give me, lead me. This is a paradigm shift.
Finally, I may go attend another biopic. Biopics are "based on a true story," but they aren't true stories. We so want them to be, but they aren't.
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