Curmudgeon Alert

Doug Groothius has posted Antidote to Celebrity-Centric Insanity. Good words.

Here are some curmudgeonly tools in the struggle against entertainment celebritism.

1. Do not read stories about them.


2. When in stores, cover up celebrity magazines and books with more thoughtful magazines and books or turn the covers around.


3. Don't refer to them in sermons; or if you do, do so only negatively.


4. Do not dress like them.


5. Do not speak like them.


6. Do not watch them on television.


7. Do not attend their ridiculous movies.


8. Don't strike celebrity-like poses--for cameras or otherwise.


9. Pray the celebrities will repent of their shabby, hollow, and empty egoism and embrace the Kingdom of God.


10. Fill your mind with ancient and more modern thinkers whose ideas last and bless: Augustine, Pascal, Jonathon Edwards, C.S. Lewis, Francis Schaeffer, Os Guinness, and so on.


11. Read biographies of great and godly people.


12. Get interested in the lives of the people you are near you, people you love, people you can influence for righteousness.

15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If you love the world, love for the Father [a] is not in you. 16 For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful people, the lust of their eyes and their boasting about what they have and do—comes not from the Father but from the world. 17 The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever. - 1 John 2:15-17