Tuesday; April 1
I have gone on the record on more than one occasion about how much I dislike April Fools Day. Even though I am not a big fan of practical jokes, my biggest objection to it is how it gives people a license to play fast and loose with the truth. Not only is lying allowed, it becomes socially acceptable. I know, I know – I am being way too literal with this, but with as much untruthfulness as we have going on in our world, what we really need is a day when people are required to tell the truth! We have enough foolishness going on in our world today, we should be lauding the truth and sanity that still exists. It irritates me when people lie in court, in government or in business interactions, what really gets me irate is when people do it in religion. Of all places where transparency is valued, the spiritual world should reign supreme. Now, it is easy to start pointing figures at those religious groups who disagree with us, but the truth of the mat...