Somehow, today I clicked onto a blog by a born-again minister who wrote about the seven, I think, things men think about other than sex. He mentioned owning a wild animal as a pet. Apparently, Dane Cook, the unfunniest comedian ever, had mused about the same thing. A reader called the born-again to task, and he replied that, although he loved the baby Jesus, he and Dane Cook are both men, so their thoughts are similar.
Diligent readers may have picked up that, a few lifetimes ago, I was a Baptist minister, educated at a conservative seminary (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, for those who are stalking me). The thought that men are men, no matter whether redeemed or unredeemed, are identical, struck me as an odd theological position, much like the bumper sticker "Christians aren't Perfect, Just Forgiven." Heinrich Heine remarked, "God will forgive me; that's his job," which seems to sum the whole thing up fairly well.
Incidentally, when I hear the word redemption, I think of bottles that can be turned into cash.
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