"The time has come, the walrus said...."

I'm sitting in the library attempting to work on homework. I say attempting because there are a number of factors preventing me from working.

The first is my lack of personal computer. If i had one I probably wouldn't be online because it takes too much effort to log on to the internet through the campus wifi, whereas if i'm on the library computer all i have to do is log in and click on the little blue e button. I am in the process of getting it back, but it's getting even more long and drawn out... But i'm hopeful!

The second is that i'm in this little room off the religion section of this library and there's a basketball guy on the next computer talking to a socer girl. Kind of sort of ANNOYING!!!

and third -- I don't feel motivated. I don't wanna write seven more pages for this book that i haven't completely read (oops! don't tell my professor!) It's interesting and all but i'm so completely distracted that i can't work on it. PLUS i felt like writing... Go ahead and embrace it because after the novelty wears off it won't be as frequent or even as interesting. At least that's what's happened in the past with my million blogs.

But to the meat of the issue, of why I'm writing... I just got done with a weekly lunch meeting with other ministerial students. We spoke of church and state... and of course i had an opinion i wanted to share and when I was halfway done with a statement, someone would interrupt and it drove me insane! I can't tell you why it drove me insane though. In other situations, if a similar thing were to occur, i wouldn't get mad. And then to add to this, the professor at my table didn't seem to understand what was being said. He's a very traditional Southern Baptist with a slightly more liberal view toward certain issues, but he won't change his mind very easily. My argument in this debate is that you cannot separate the two completely. The reason it started was to keep the state out of the church business, ie no political campaigns from the pulpit. But you cannot separate your beliefs from who you are. I'm not saying that public prayer in school needs to be reinstated, but rather that the government shouldn't have as much control over what the church can and cannot do. As a society, i think we'd do better if we, as the church, met the social, physical and spiritual needs of the community, and the state, the government, were left to the justice system. Also, we should be so offended if someone makes a ruling for religiousl rights. That's really all i have.

And now that's out of my system, i think i'll return to my wonderful world of academia and write more than a page or two in my book report.