Matthew 6:1 Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

I find that verse useful in debate.

Actually, it seems weird to me, too, because of the whole Ten Commandments, Thou Shalt Not Steal thing. The idea that one is a Christian implies that one at least pays lip service to those tenets.

According to one flavor of Christianity, Christians are not perfect, just forgiven.

At which point I remind myself of the many Christians who don't use their faith as an excuse to be dicks, several of whom are on this board.

Eh, people. Whatcha gonna do? I'm sorry some of them messed with a Buffista's finances, though.

It's using stolen credit card to buy anything at a Christian Center I find peculiar. This is perhaps colored by my reading the Golden Calf episode today.

Well, so I didn't know there were things called "Christian Centers" and I thought it was wild that the person bought something there and THEN bought a shit-ton of Legos. Oh well.

Folks, I ran errands today (mostly related to Beau's b-day) and trying to buy him a b-day card at Hallmark was challenging. Is it just me or have the cards gotten worse at Hallmarks? They are just terrible: bad sentiments, half the cards play music. it just all bullshit.

Actually, it seems weird to me, too, because of the whole Ten Commandments, Thou Shalt Not Steal thing. The idea that one is a Christian implies that one at least pays lip service to those tenets.

According to one flavor of Christianity, Christians are not perfect, just forgiven.

Well, I didn't say Christianity = perfect. But I figure it means they at least *try* to not steal shit. At least some of the time.

have the cards gotten worse at Hallmarks?

CVS has the worst cards in the world. Kroger, oddly, has pretty good ones.

Well, I didn't say Christianity = perfect. But I figure it means they at least *try* to not steal shit. At least some of the time.

Yeah, the people who like to live by the saying I quoted are often the ones I'd prefer had never heard it.

I was gonna say that I haven't given anyone a card in a long time (because I am a bad person who forgets to give cards) so I wouldn't know, but I did look for a card for my MiL's birthday. I can't really complain that I didn't find anything appropriate, that's a tough one.

Relatedly,

do people send Easter cards? I didn't know that you send cards for Easter.

I think my grandmothers used to send us Easter cards? I'm not sure. My one grandmother was very religious, and the other really liked sending greeting cards, so that's no guarantee that it's a normal practice.

Do they even try and find the people who commit the credit card fraud? The charges on my card seemed to be quite tightly clustered, and $1500 is an annoying amount of money, fuck it.

Jilli, that RDJ is great! I love him and his sexy facial hair.

I am so damned beat. Totally overshot my mark when it came to consuming resources, but at least my hair is short again, the Christmas cake delivered, the produce side of my groceries done, and a Dwayne Johnson movie seen. I do have enough leftovers to not do the bulk of the menu planning and meat buying until Monday.

I keep zoning out. Or falling asleep, I guess. I don't feel sleepy, but I am realising intermittently that my eyes were closed, and my mind had wandered far from what I had been looking at--this happened three times during the matinee too. No doubt that's a cue to lie down. I should just brew up one of the new teas I bought.