I had a little breakthrough in my Understanding The Bible class a little more than a year ago when an especially avid student asked me if it was the end of the world. If memory serves, we’d covered some of Micah, Amos, and Isaiah and we were headed for Jesus of Nazareth as attested to in the Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. I was profoundly moved and struck anew by the strange, fragile space of allegedly higher education, the hope and expectation we still bring to it, and the tender spot much-younger-than-me people in America find themselves in. I wrote out a long response which I ended up sharing in class. I shared a version of the response with the people on Facebook who’ve been designated as my friends, and, in time, it became clear that I had something
Just one of many inconsistencies in a man who says he lives by a moral center dictated by his religious beliefs. Our pro-life governor is pushing a Permitless Carry bill thru the legislature that he is committed to sign as soon as it hits his desk, giving anyone the opportunity to carry a concealed weapon in public without a permit which the conservative republicans declare is dictated by the 2nd amendment and all-mighty God. This means that they could fall thru one of the many loopholes regarding a background check and indeed have gun without any confirmation of criminal background or mental illness, and be able to carry this weapon without any training or safety education. All law enforcement agencies in the state as well as local authorities, business owners, gun instructors, military, 90% of Tennesseans which includes republicans and gun owners. Statistically this will mean more gun violence, more gun deaths, more police in harms way. It makes no sense at all why this is somehow deemed such an emergency to pass when we have people in food lines, being thrown out of housing, and our jails filled with unjust incarcerations and a vast majority do not want it. This bill could actually pass the entire assembly this week and be signed by our pro-life governor, so please get on the phone and make your voices heard!
I am no longer an ICU nurse, but I was for a number of years when I was younger. Even I cannot imagine the stress and strain the local ICU staffs (and those across the country) have been under for the past 12 months. The ICU is an incredibly stressful environment under the best of circumstances. What really makes me mad (aside from all the other obvious reasons that Mr. Lee’s behavior can be criticized) is that people who disregard the masking and distancing and partying restrictions are just blatantly disrespecting our “frontline workers” by saying, well, “I’ll take my chances, this thing is almost gone, we need to open up our businesses.” And what he and they are actually doing is ensuring that the virus spreads farther and wider, more people become ill than need to, and the hospital beds will fill up as a result. Have we not tortured them enough?? And, if MR. Lee or any of his associates or loved ones DO become ill as a result of the careless disregard of the guidelines, they will receive the best treatment available, without any hesitation on the part of the medical staff, should they require their care. They will not be banned from receiving care or turned away b/c of their careless behavior. It just makes my head want to explode.
I agree with you, David. I wish that Bill Lee was as good a Governor as the man I heard wonderful things about when he was just Bill Lee.
Terrible behavior and terrible legislature wrapped in a Christianity says little good about his faith. I am reminded of a Bob Dylan quote:
“But the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.” from Slow Train Coming
Just one of many inconsistencies in a man who says he lives by a moral center dictated by his religious beliefs. Our pro-life governor is pushing a Permitless Carry bill thru the legislature that he is committed to sign as soon as it hits his desk, giving anyone the opportunity to carry a concealed weapon in public without a permit which the conservative republicans declare is dictated by the 2nd amendment and all-mighty God. This means that they could fall thru one of the many loopholes regarding a background check and indeed have gun without any confirmation of criminal background or mental illness, and be able to carry this weapon without any training or safety education. All law enforcement agencies in the state as well as local authorities, business owners, gun instructors, military, 90% of Tennesseans which includes republicans and gun owners. Statistically this will mean more gun violence, more gun deaths, more police in harms way. It makes no sense at all why this is somehow deemed such an emergency to pass when we have people in food lines, being thrown out of housing, and our jails filled with unjust incarcerations and a vast majority do not want it. This bill could actually pass the entire assembly this week and be signed by our pro-life governor, so please get on the phone and make your voices heard!
I am no longer an ICU nurse, but I was for a number of years when I was younger. Even I cannot imagine the stress and strain the local ICU staffs (and those across the country) have been under for the past 12 months. The ICU is an incredibly stressful environment under the best of circumstances. What really makes me mad (aside from all the other obvious reasons that Mr. Lee’s behavior can be criticized) is that people who disregard the masking and distancing and partying restrictions are just blatantly disrespecting our “frontline workers” by saying, well, “I’ll take my chances, this thing is almost gone, we need to open up our businesses.” And what he and they are actually doing is ensuring that the virus spreads farther and wider, more people become ill than need to, and the hospital beds will fill up as a result. Have we not tortured them enough?? And, if MR. Lee or any of his associates or loved ones DO become ill as a result of the careless disregard of the guidelines, they will receive the best treatment available, without any hesitation on the part of the medical staff, should they require their care. They will not be banned from receiving care or turned away b/c of their careless behavior. It just makes my head want to explode.