temptation

I watched some of the Nuremberg trials last night, not the famous movie but  some cable channel, American Heroes, like the History Channel, but I daresay a cut above,  They had some kind of mockup with part documentary and part actors, which was okay, better than the History Channel shows which are geared for sixth graders who have to write a paper for class the next day.

Rather a gentleman among the thugs, that Speers.  Stood up to Hitler a couple times, was likely complicit in an assassination plot, took full blame, unlike the other thugs.  Got twenty years and got out in time to be a minor celeb, getting interviews on tv shows.  One wonders if goose stepping could find a place in Dancing with the Stars. 

Meanwhile in 1950 Shirer has been waltzing the Strasses of Vienna, mourning the ravages of war, but admiring the sophisticated fighting spirit of the Viennese rebuilding their sidewalk coffee houses.  You hardly ever hear of Austria anymore, next he is flying off to London.


Meanwhile the dawgs have been watching the cooking channel.

I never liked using the oven, you know it's so big, and a little scary, a fiery furnace right there in your kitchen and I hear it is hard to clean.  But I do like pizza and when I heard that we could both put a man on the moon AND make a microwaveable pizza, I bought one.  It turns out that trip to the moon was done better than the microwave pizza, but I use it all the time for other stuff.  I chop up some vegetables and put them in, I do a little cooking kind of thing in that between zaps I add the garlic, and the soy sauce, and pepper, and the butter,  It works out fine.


NPR picked up the story of revising the Lord's Prayer, saying it was more of a matter of translation.  Speaking of translation I also had to look up temptation.  The word never had that sinister taint to me.  It's such a nice morning that I'm tempted to take a walk along the river before writing my post in the morning.  But apparently it has a tendency to apply to deeds we ought not to be doing or so says the google dictionary.

But it seems to me, that we should be led into temptation.  How else can we make a choice between good and evil?  Why is the concept of free will such a mainspring of the church, if we never use it because the Lord is shielding our eyes? 

And speaking of the Lord's prayer what about that trespasses thing (my internet biblical research tells me sometimes its debts or sins), forgive them as we forgive those who trespass against us.  Whoa, is that some kind of trick, does that mean that if I don't forgive my trespassers, the Lord won't forgive me.  And isn't He getting on His high horse about this, Who tosses all those people into the fiery lake?


Speaking of trespasses and fiery lakes it's election night in Alabama.  It will take some time to read the entrails of this one.