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Why Did the Theological Chicken Cross the Road?

Pelagius: Because the chicken was able to.

Irenaeus: The glory of God is the chicken fully alive.

John Wesley: The chicken’s heart was strangely warmed.

C.S. Lewis: If a chicken finds itself with a desire that nothing on this side can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that it was created for the other side.

Billy Graham: The chicken was surrendering all.

Pluralist: The chicken took one of many equally valid roads.

Universalist: All chickens cross the road.

Martin Luther: The chicken was fleeing the Antichrist who stole the Gospel with his papist lies.

Tim LaHaye: The chicken didn’t want to be left behind.

James White: I reject chicken centered eisegesis.

Rob Bell: The chicken. Crossed the road. To get. Cool glasses.

Joel Osteen: The chicken crossed the road to maximize his personal fulfillment so they he could be all that God created him to be.

Rick Warren: The chicken was purpose driven.

John Piper: God decreed the event to maximize his glory, it’s not the destination that’s important. It’s the journey itself.

N.T. Wright: This act of the chicken, which would be unthinkable in British barnyards, reeks of that American individualism that is destructive to community.

Al Mohler: When a chicken begins to think theologically, he has no other alternative but to come over to the Calvinist side of the road.

Michael Horton: The chicken was forsaking the kingdom of this world to live solely in the Kingdom of Christ.

John Frame: The chicken had an existential need to change its situation according to a new norm.

T.F. Torrance: The inner logic of the incarnation proved an irresistible draw to the other side of the road.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: He was abandoning cheap grace for the costly discipleship of risking the dangers of crossing the road.

Karl Barth: The crossing of the road, like all true theology, was done for profoundly Christological reasons. All chickens cross the road in the end.

Paul Tillich: Because he sensed that the other side of the road represented the ground of all being.

New Ager: Because he saw the light beckoning him forward.

Fundamentalist: Because his pastor told him so.

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Jules said:
I never saw any bare foot people in New Zealand. Believe the one about Japan and no shoes. That’s not uncommon in many parts of Canada. No eating allowed on public buses here either.
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My DIL's parents were both born and raised in Korea. She always removes her shoes when entering her or my house, and my son now does the same. When I asked her the reason for the tradition she said it's to avoid bringing outside dirt into one's home. I had a neighbor from India who did the same.

Not a bad custom, if you ask me.
 
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Louis was furious. He had a secret warrant drawn up for the child's arrest, and young Seldon was thrown into solitary confinement in the Bastille. His parents, members of one of Europe's richest merchant families, were told simply that the child had disappeared. Days turned to months, months to years, and Louis himself passed away. But Francis spent sixty-nine years "in the hole" for making fun of the king's baldness.
 
jerry old said:
No shoes-no big deal.
Many of us had aunts or other relatives that allowed no one to enter their living rooms.
I had an aunt that allowed no one into living room, 'It's for company only.'
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When I was still in single digits I went to a friend's house that had movie theater type stanchions and velvet ropes across the living room entry as a reminder to the kids to stay out. I was astonished and outraged on her behalf that there were sections of her own home in which she was unwelcome. I never went back.

From then on when we got together out of school she came to my house.
 
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for his performance as guilt ridden younger brother in 'Ordinary People' '80.His co stars were Mary Tyler Moore,Donald Sutherland.It was Robert Redford's directorial debut,he also won Academy Award
 
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