Friday - God & Janis Joplin

Today on my drive into work, I was thinking about how the people you love are often the same people you want to strangle with your bare hands.* Because you care about them, they have the power to drive you over the edge the way a person you are indifferent to just can't.

I suppose this is an open letter to someone I care about, but I advise her to skip it. I advise the rest of you to skip it, too, because I'm going to talk about a touchy issue I usually avoid here - religion. I am religious, for the record. I was raised in a Christian denomination that falls under the category of "moderate," meaning we are not literalists, and believe that the Christian Bible was written by men about God and that it is open for to interpretation and debate. There is a large misconception among non-Christians that the word Christian also implies right-wing and conservative, in large part because right-wing, conservative Christians like to say this and everyone just takes them at their word. A lot of us who worship under the umbrella of Christianity know this isn't true, but since we aren't shouting and waiving signs and voting Republican en mass, no one pays attention to us.

( Dialing For Dollars )