Quotes 26 Jul

Because of this mobile device, you have now an absence 

of what I call leisurely reading.  You have a generation 

(whose) brains have been wired to look at short pieces 

with not long attention spans--part of a physiological 

change in your brain, literally. [...] 

Kids today want to buy vinyl records.  So you'll have 

hipster kids wanting to see paper soon. I don't think 

touching paper and reading will actually go away. 

There will be a need for leisurely reading and the 

tactile feel. 

--Patrick Soon-Shiong (1952-    ) 

      _TheGuardian.Com_ [July 21, 2018], 

      "The Billionaire Who Bought The LA Times: 

      'Hipsters Will Want Paper Soon'" 

If an atheist derides Christianity there’s no ‘phobia’ to wave at them in admonition. The comfort of having an invented phobia to protect you from your detractors is a privilege reserved for Western self-obliterationists’ chosen people. -- Aidan McCourt on Twitter 

Today, our little ones are exposed to every kind 

of perversion and danger with a click of a button-- 

be it TV, Internet, cell phones, or just a stroll 

through the local mall.  Today, the words of the 

weeping prophet Jeremiah cause a lump in my 

throat as I read them aloud.  Speaking of a sinful 

generation, the Lord said: 

"Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? 

     No, they have no shame at all; they do not even 

     know how to blush.  So they will fall among the 

     fallen; they will be brought down when I punish 

     them." --Jeremiah 6:15 NIV 

In an age where gay and lesbian experimentation is 

considered normal on campuses, when oral sex and 

every type of perversion imaginable is just winked 

at (kids call that "technical virginity" now), when 

sexual affairs before and after marriage are totally 

acceptable, our little ones are positioned to be an 

unblushable generation. 

Already they are becoming so familiar with sin that 

when they see immodest filth, they giggle when they 

should instead blush and turn away. 

--Jentezen Franklin (1962-    ) 

      _Fasting_ [2008], "For The Little Ones"

‘You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me. -  Calvin Coolidge

"Disillusionment with our local church is a good thing because it destroys our false expectations of perfection. The sooner we give up the illusion that a church must be perfect in order to love it, the sooner we quit pretending and start admitting we're all imperfect and need grace. This is the beginning of real community." Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Life Together