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So, today, I was talking to my Mom about Christian Liberty (that old, worn-to-the-bone, fun, jolly, "if I ever, EVER hear that phrase again, I'll..." ol' topic), and somehow we got to talking about all our favorite Christian Libertyesque issues and all the funny lines that Christians use to either defend or go against their particular Christian Liberty of choice. So I brought up a faint rememberance of John [of wordforword.blogspot.com fame, dontchaknow] and Steve's [of like fame] penchant for pipes. I don't know if it's an official penchant or anything, you guys, but, okay, bear with me. Anyways, I made a crack about John and Steve, respectively, smoking pipes and reading Luther (AT THE SAME TIME! Gasp!), something to the effect of, "Well, you know, it's the vogue thing to do while reading Reformed theology, especially back in the days of all those cool theologians. Coram deo and all that." All of a sudden, my blessed mother turned amusedly exasperated and said, "Well! They used to use leeches to cure tumors back then too, but we don't do THAT now, do we?!" As a result, my mind concocted a magnanimously detailed mental image of John and Steve, their tumors covered copiously with leeches, simultaneously reading Luther and Calvin, while smoking a good pipe. With Coldplay playing in the background.
I snickered and snorted and laughed to myself for a few seconds until I regained composure, but I still find the picture mildly amusing. I guess you had to be there, huh?
Well, I thought it was funny...