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 So we are at the end of January. Next week we have a holiday on Waitangi Day.

This is a time when "Kings go campaigning" (2 Sam 11:1). It's to do with the New Year. If you lived in the time of King David you might 'massacre the Ammonites" and lay siege to Rabbah. Some of the things in the Bible are fairly raunchy. Like real life. While the army is out fighting King David stays home and gets turned on by Bathsheba, wife of Uriah, when he sees her in the bath. He has her sent for and takes her to bed, as you do. It's hard to tell if Uriah finds out but David has him put at the front of an attack and killed just in case.

I hear Fr Rowan D has behaved dispicably too. My friend S says he was a 'class mate'. Of course I dont remember. 

I can hear RBB sighing and muttering "That's why I don't believe in religions".

Truth is that we are all sinners. To say sin doesn't exist is to express an opinion. But opinions don't carry much weight. We need to reference an authority. Both the secular and religious worlds have authorities. In the secular the authority is the 'law of the land' (Peter might think of a better description). In the Christian religion we have the ten commandments and the teachings of Christ. I think the secular and religious are closely related; the first evolving from the other. To argue that there is no sin is to imply that there is no crime. Of course that is stupid thinking.

That's not a bad blog considering when I reclined on my leather couch I considered not writing this post due to insufficient material.

Have fun and don't commit a crime.