{"id":41,"date":"2011-01-24T11:46:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T11:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godscomic\/2011\/01\/ultra-violet-bar-b-cue.html"},"modified":"2011-01-24T11:46:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T11:46:24","slug":"ultra-violet-bar-b-cue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godscomic\/2011\/01\/ultra-violet-bar-b-cue.html","title":{"rendered":"Ultra violet bar-b-cue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:200%\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">I come from a different age. Sure things may be<br \/>\n&#8220;safer&#8221; nowadays, but they are definitely less enjoyable. Today&#8217;s kids have<br \/>\ngrown up in an age of paranoia. When I was growing up one of the things that<br \/>\npassed for fun was lying out in the sun. We actually used the phrase &#8221; I&#8217;m<br \/>\ngonna go layout&#8221;. This was a time where sun products were designed to enhance<br \/>\nand enable the suns power, not fear it. This was a time where we wore sun-TAN<br \/>\nlotion as opposed to sun-SCREEN lotion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:200%\"><span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:200%\"><span>Suntan lotion&#8217;s purpose was to demonstrate you<br \/>\nactually were IN the sun enjoying nature and Gods gift of warmth and light.<br \/>\nSunscreen is supposed to block the ultra-violet rays so as to give you warmth<br \/>\nof the sun with the added benefit of when finished, you look worse than when<br \/>\nyou started. Yes we went from brown, tan, healthy look to the pasty-white<br \/>\ncadaver\/goth look as the new appearance of health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:200%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:200%\"><span>Of course vegetarians have been doing a similar<br \/>\nconcept, for years; they espouse the benefits of vegetables,<span>&nbsp; <\/span>and then try and prove their point by<br \/>\nlooking like a skeletal ectomorph\/prisoner of war, ribcage protruding version<br \/>\nof health. If we were still in Eden, vegetables alone would be fine. Heck in<br \/>\nEden we were allowed to walk around naked and God was cool with it!<span>&nbsp; <\/span>The militant anti fur vegetarians, like<br \/>\nall materialist driven philosophies are glaringly inconsistent. We aren&#8217;t<br \/>\nsupposed to eat animals in their opinion because in their opinion we ARE<br \/>\nanimals.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:200%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:200%\"><span>They tell us we are animals, yet approve of the<br \/>\nanimal kingdom eating each other? Wait a minute, based on their definitions, if<br \/>\nanimals (humans) shouldn&#8217;t eat animals (beasts) then animals (beasts) shouldn&#8217;t<br \/>\nbe allowed to eat &#8220;fellow animals,&#8221; humans (beasts). Based on the vegetarian<br \/>\nphilosophy, if consistent, every time lions eat a gazelle they are committing<br \/>\ncannibalism. When we join in the feast as the other &#8220;animals&#8221; do they say we<br \/>\nare we are somehow inhumane. How ironic they use the term (less than human)<br \/>\nwhen describing our beastly act of eating animals. Of course to be less than<br \/>\nhuman presupposes humans moral and mental superiority, which is a concept they<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t agree with. I know it makes no sense but postmodern thought doesn&#8217;t<br \/>\nbelieve in &#8220;common&#8221; sense, only in their agenda driven sense. Which amounts to<br \/>\nthe world they create in their minds and force upon us. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:200%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:200%\"><span>Their hypocrisy reaches new heights when they<br \/>\nmake fake hamburgers, hot dogs, and other meat tasting food substitutes out of<br \/>\nsoybeans and tofu so the veggieheads can enjoy a barbecue like the normal<br \/>\npeople do. They want it to taste like the real thing, which proves what the<br \/>\nrest of us already knew&#8230;meat tastes good!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:200%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:200%\"><span>The real question is if you think eating meat is<br \/>\nwrong why would you invent your own version? How sick and twisted do you have<br \/>\nto be in order to eat a version of the food you disdain and find immoral? Can<br \/>\nyou imagine eating faux human brains or a pretend human thigh or breast, which<br \/>\nyou justify since it is really made of soy? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:200%\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:200%\"><span>There is no excuse to eat anything that claims<br \/>\nto taste like a food you find offensive. If you are a vegetarian you can eat<br \/>\nvegetables and that is it. You chose to refuse meat so don&#8217;t be eating pretend<br \/>\nmeat and believing your conscious is clear. As for me and my house, see you at<br \/>\nthe barbecue with my shirt off to catch some rays. Now that would be a treat to<br \/>\nenhance anyone&#8217;s cookout!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I come from a different age. Sure things may be &#8220;safer&#8221; nowadays, but they are definitely less enjoyable. Today&#8217;s kids have grown up in an age of paranoia. When I was growing up one of the things that passed for fun was lying out in the sun. We actually used the phrase &#8221; I&#8217;m gonna&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-living","category-comedy","category-news-and-current-events"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ultra violet bar-b-cue - God&#039;s Comic<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godscomic\/2011\/01\/ultra-violet-bar-b-cue.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ultra violet bar-b-cue - God&#039;s Comic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I come from a different age. 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