Repentant Episcopals, sarcasm and vagueness.

The Episcopals repent of idolatry, but don’t deal with their core problems.

Good news—

I ranted about the Episcopal Church endorsing idolatry. Some Episcopal pastors with a connection to pagan churches had put together a liturgy encouraging worship of another god. In response to a whole lot of criticsm, they’ve recently repented and recanted their activities with the pagans.

The only down side to this is that the leadership of the church needs to take responsibility for its actions—and it hasn’t done so yet. Likely leadership will figure that since the pastors repented, the issue is over with. If only that were true.

And now, a brief moment of sarcasm: Yeah, right we’ll only be working on the yearbook for an hour.

I say “maybe” a lot because “yes” means you damn well better do it.

Speaking of which… I have no respect for flaky people. I got over being disappointed by them years ago; you’ve just gotta accept them as a regularly occurring part of life. There will always be people who say they’ll do something and they never follow through. Jesus even told a parable once featuring such a person.

I don’t care what their reasons are. I don’t care if a family member died, or the car exploded on the way to the campus, or whatever natural disaster prevented them from getting their acts together. Yeah, okay, sometimes such disasters happen. But when they do happen, reliable people get on the bloody phone to tell you they happen. Flakes don’t. I suppose I’ll be sorry that their moms exploded, but they suck.

Doesn’t anyone believe in taking their own word seriously? Sure, you have to be a little wary of other people, but when you say you’re gonna do something, shouldn’t you go a little out of your way to keep yourself from becoming another of the lying weasels infesting our planet?

This is why I tell people “Maybe” all the time. “Hey, Kent, can I ask you a favor?” “Maybe.” “Hey, Kent, you gonna be at the party tonight?” “Maybe.” “Hey, Kent, can I borrow your Monty Python and the Holy Grail DVD?” “Maybe.” You know why I say maybe all the time? Because “Yes” means something! (So does maybe; I don’t just use it as another word for no. I use “No” and sometimes “Heck no” for that.)

“Yes” means I’m gonna do my darndest to actually do it, or I’m gonna turn into one of those flakes that annoy me.

Let your yes be yes, your no be no, and your maybe be maybe. Anything other than that comes from evil.