Just Thought I Should Re-Post This; Since I Seem To Have gone “Off The Rails.” Of Late. Faith–“First Do No Harm.”

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Beautiful Lady
Such Class!

So Much Class!

One of These Days–Emmylou

Beauty Personified:

Religion.

Specifically: Southern Religion

More specifically: Texan Religion.

I am talking Methodists, Baptists, Church of Chist(ers)—the Entire Gamut of The Faithful.

I love all of Y’all.

No secret: “Lance is an Atheist.”

(This is well-documented.)

However, I do love AND RESPECT

All Folks of Faith.

I just do not roll that way.

(Ever Since I Learned to Read)

Cannot.

But I love the music.

And I love the morality

(I have that too— ‘morality’—I do not need Religion to have that)

I love the culture of Faith.

I never mean to demean anyone of Faith.

My fervent wish is to never offend.

I have too much respect for Folks of Faith.

Too much respect For Fellow Texans,

most of whom are Religious.

(I was going somewhere with this post)

Probably to Hell.

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Post Script:

I have read ‘The Iliad’

And ‘The Odyssey’

And All The Norsemen—Thor–in particular.

I have read ‘Beowulf’

And The ‘King James Bible.’

All Great Mythology.

All Magnificent Literature.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but I know what I’m talking about.

(“One of these days I’ll look back and I’ll say I left in time.”)

6 thoughts on “Just Thought I Should Re-Post This; Since I Seem To Have gone “Off The Rails.” Of Late. Faith–“First Do No Harm.””

  1. DFWSteve

    You can do worse than London and Tokyo

    (Trust me on this–try Baghdad)

    I have been to Japan and London

    And Baghdad
    And Mombasa
    And Cairo
    And Olongapo
    And… Well, You know…
    And Kandahar
    Har Har Har!

  2. >>You appear to be ‘well-traveled’ & wiser Than I<<
    Welp, I ain't sure about that. But I appreciate the observation. I've only lived expat in Tokyo and London. Not exactly off the grid places.

  3. DFWSteve

    Speaking of ‘Radar’ Whitley….

    You Of course know I ‘dated’ her daughter throughout most of the mid-seventies

  4. DFWSteve,

    “Oh, by the way, Emmy Lou and Gram Parsons were pure-dee “magic”

    Thank you for great comments.

    You appear to be ‘well-traveled’ & wiser Than I

    I respect that.

  6. I’m a man of faith. Thanks for respecting that. When the chain gets let out too far, the anchor takes hold. Guess that’s how I survived all my wildness around the world. From Saigon bars to Bolivian haciendas to Amsterdam coffee houses to Jakarta whore houses to being dragged out of a car in Ecudador during a firefight with Peruvian guerrillas (I was just visiting a Del Monte ag farm in Machala!).

    Beware The Iliad & The Odessey (Mrs Whitley made me read them). They have been declared unsuitable for school libraries by certain activists bent on saving us all from ourselves. I guess Homer didn’t know he would run afoul of “hate speech” and “racist” wokeism.

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