So I’m listening to the One’s acceptance speech…
And this is what keeps running through the back of my mind…
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P.S. What’s he so angry about? He just won? Why can’t he smile?
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by on 11.4.08
on polemics
I am feeling USA election anxiety today. My loved ones are voting in a state that will likely overwhelmingly support my preferred candidate. Would that their votes could count in a battleground, but such is not the case. We’ll know tonight how it all pans out.
As therapy for my election anxiety, I thought I might do a little meditation on polemics. My postings here could be characterized as polemical, eh?
Dictionary.com gives me these definitions under ‘polemic‘:
–noun
1. a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
2. a person who argues in opposition to another; controversialist.–adjective
3. Also, po·lem·i·cal. of or pertaining to a polemic; controversial.
Ah, yes, that would be me!
And why would the subjects I post about move me to be polemical? Why wouldn’t I, as a pastor, be more devotional and less polemical? Or maybe, much more devotional? Here is why:
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