#idontunderstand

@TeamAthleteLife tweeted the following today:

Tim Tebow: "I'm a Christian."
Media: "Keep it to yourself."
Jason Collins: "I'm gay."
Media: "You're an inspiration!"
#idontunderstand

Judging by the number of retweets it got I'd say a lot of other people "don't understand" either. So I thought I'd take a crack at explaining it.

When someone like Tebow says, "I'm a Christian," the implied theology is that, "I'm saved and going to heaven, and you are not. In fact you are going to hell (unless of course you convert to my religion, the one true religion)."

However when someone like Collins says, "I am gay," there is no implied theology, although I think it would be safe to draw an inference that he also may mean: "so I hope you won't condemn me or discriminate against me for it."

A dog's life.

Do you ever talk to your dog like it is a human? I know I do.

Here is an example from the other day -- me talking to our family dog Moxie:  I tell her I'm taking her for a walk, and of course then I get the usual jumping, squirming, frenzied anticipation that makes it always so hard to put the darn leash on. And then I become indignant and say, "So is this what it's all come to for you? Your life is just so empty and devoid of purpose that the thought of going for a simple walk is that exciting an event to you? You are living in an existential vacuum, and it's sucking the soul right out of you! Get a life for Christ's sake."