the happy heretic

Trampling Out the Vintage Where the Grapes of Wrath are Stored

Those words from the Battle Hymn of The Republic appeared to a very divided nation in1861 the year before the Civil War. President Lincoln had warned that a nation divided against itself could not stand but from the words of the song it seems that no one was willing to do anything about the divided nation except wait for God to heal the problem. The result was the bloodiest war in our history with the grapes of wrath still untouched.

Once again, we have become a nation divided and in danger of imploding. Fear, hate, anger, greed, and lust for power has divided us into warring tribes seeking to destroy each other. Once again, we seem to be content with complaining, arguing and trying to figure out who else to blame besides ourselves while waiting for some other outside source to heal our nation.

Doug ManningJuly 7, 2022Happy Heretic, Doug Manning, conservative, liberal, pogo, listening, understanding, civil war, battle hymn of the republic

The Third Option

In 1956 at 24 years of age, I was moving into the parsonage of the First Baptist Church in the city where I had graduated from college three months before. As I was carrying things into the house a professor from the college walked back-and-forth with me telling me that his wife was having an affair. Ready or not and, without my intention, I had become a counselor. I do not claim that title.

Doug ManningApril 15, 2021Doug Manning, Happy Heretic, Homosexuality, sin, Jesus, love, listen, nonjudgemental, understanding