Of all religious symbols the cross, to my mind, is the most damning and, in it's way, misleading (at least as far as Christ is concerned). The cross represents the material world and the limited perception afforded us simple humans under the constraints of time and space. The cross is the instrument of temporary victory enjoyed by the forces of government and religion who, if the gospels are to be believed, together perpetrated one of the most egregious injustices ever conceived and executed by their institutions. Putting aside the divinity question, the murder of Jesus and the fecklessness of the leadership of the day is one of the most radical and subversive stories ever told and should give every thinking citizen pause before they entrust anything to a government or religious leader. The fact that a unique religion, professing to follow God, was born from this event is one of the eternal mysteries and can not be rationally explained by anyone who's read the text and imbibed the full, inscrutable message of The Passion. The barbarity continues to this day and the cross holds fast.
She was "sexy", but "too much hard work." I'm a regular Fox & Friends viewer (mostly in protest of the other insipid morning programs like Today and Good Morning America) so over the years I've gotten to know Gretchen Carlson pretty well. Stuck between Steve and Brian she always seemed a prudish scold with an irritating, self-righteous demeanor that I simply put up with because I figured some people in the Fox audience actually liked her persona. It was obvious that Steve and Brian did not, but they were stuck with her like so many talking heads and had to make the best of it - which they did. Besides, she was no worse than any of the other women on morning show TV - I mean, you're only going to find a certain kind of person to do this kind of work and that kind of person is the Gretchen Carlson kind. Then, one day, she was gone and replaced by Elisabeth Hasselbeck and the F&F ratings began to climb, and climb and climb - in two months view
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