Saturday, May 22, 2010

The Origin of Feces

Pooping is spiritual. I've had some pretty transcendent dumps.

I don't know much about biology, but I think the basic idea is this: you eat, your body keeps good stuff and poops out bad stuff. And boy is it true. I hope this is true of some others besides myself, but sometimes I feel like such crap (pun intended), until I take a crap. Like when you eat a bunch of terrible food, and then your drinking coffee and reading, sitting on the couch like the giant turd that you are, and then your uncomfortable gut reaches a climax and needs to make room below. Those are the poops that offer such relief that I actually enjoy them (gross?).

Here's my crappy application: secular media has nutrients, as well as a lot of crap that you need to purge yourself of. By secular media I mean music, books, news, movies, philosophy, you name it. Sometimes Christians are afraid of some secular stuff. Or secular stuff just pisses them off. Why, just the other day I was in heaven (aka Barnes & Noble), when I started perusing a book called The Evolution of God, and I got absolutely furious right there in Barnes & Noble because the author was saying woefully untrue things. But I didn't realize 'til later that he actually said a lot of really brilliant and thought provoking things too.

What we need to be able to do is approach a bit of information objectively and take the truth and poop out the lies in a healthy way. And I don't mean forget the lies; just don't let lies be your nourishment. Be nourished by truth and purge yourself of falsehood.

So, after you've digested some article or song, make sure you allow yourself to be nourished by the truth of it, because it is from God. But don't forget to take a good poop afterwards.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

This is the biggest load of crap I have read in forever. So this is the wisdom you have gleaned from spending a couple of months with pastor Copeland. Interesting.

Ha ha. Seiously though. Great Sunday morning message.

Our bodies instinctively reject what is bad for us, but as Christians, do we always know what is good or what is bad. Yes, outright good and bad is easy to detect, but subtle lies a little more difficult. How do we get better at this?

The old rule is always "Crap in, crap out".

Joshua Rogers said...

I find myself wanting to comment, yet at such a loss for words. I'll just leave it at that.