An Observation

I saw this today:

The Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, N.C. will celebrate Halloween by burning Bibles that aren’t the King James Version, as well as music and books and anything else Pastor Marc Grizzard says is a satanic influence.

Among the authors whose books Grizzard plans to burn are well known ministers Rick Warren and Billy Graham because he says they have occasionally used Bibles other than the King James Version, which is the sole biblical source he considers infallible.

According to the church’s Web site, members will also burn “Satan's music such as country, rap, rock, pop, heavy metal, western, soft and easy, southern gospel, contemporary Christian, jazz, soul (and) oldies.

“We will also be burning Satan's popular books written by heretics like Billy Graham, Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, John McArthur, James Dobson, Charles Swindoll, John Piper, Chuck Colson, Tony Evans, Oral Roberts, Jimmy Swagart, Mark Driskol, Franklin Graham, Bill Bright, Tim Lahaye, Paula White, T.D. Jakes, Benny Hinn, Joyce Myers, Brian McLaren, Robert Schuller, Mother Teresa, The Pope, Rob Bell, Erwin McManus, Donald Miller, Shane Claiborne, Brennan Manning (and) William Young.

During the book burning, according to the Web site, barbecued chicken fried chicken and “all the sides” will be served.

After a while, I stepped away from the story. There are two observations here. First, dang, he has a point, if it ain't King James....it's ain't the truth. Second though.....and of a very serious nature...I felt barbecued chicken is the work of the devil and you should only be serving ribs or steak. Either way....I doubt that I'll be hanging out much with these guys.

WSJ Passes USA Today?

Within two weeks, the actual numbers will come out but an interesting story popped up that the number paper in America now, in subscriptions....is the Wall Street Journal. The USA Today team has lost a fair number of subscriptions over the past year.

The Wall Street Journal crowd has now amassed over 2 million subscriptions.

I never read the WSJ until I was almost 38 years old. I was in an airport somewhere in the states....looking for a national paper to read.....and this WSJ paper was near the cash register. I laughed....forked over the buck.....and spent two hours on the plane reading the paper. I sat there amazed....it actually was readable and contained half of the major national stories of significance.

The WSJ actually takes complicated business and political stories...and basically turns them into simplistic five minute articles that make sense.

Since that point, I've probably picked up two hundred copies of the WSJ. It's not a paper you can readily pick up on Ramstein.

The curious thing about the WSJ growing....is that they've taken up several causes over the past twelve months. The explanation over the universal health care packages? All laid out in detail by the WSJ.....and you can readily identify the problems with funding them. The stimulus packages? They were laid out in detail...and you came to realize the worthless value of the stimulus deal.

I suspect that as Fox News has grown over the past year.....the same path was taken by the WSJ and they've taken full advantage. Continued growth? Yes, without any doubt.