Creativity Rant

Alright, I don't know if you people watch the Daily Show or the Cobert Report or for what reason, whether it be for news or entertainment or both, but I thought that this clip was halarious and enlightening!

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I do believe that this show, like most news programs, is just propaganda that is packaged in a way that caters to its audience just like Anderson Cooper or Glen Beck's show. And it's okay if you think like this because you need to hear the news and get informed somehow right? Right!

Some people think that the medium is more important than the message, but in this post-modern, post-Christian, and post-American world, is the message more important than the medium or method of delivery? I think they're both important, but I think that the message is always more important than the medium, while the message is only as accepted as the medium is creative.

For example, if I slap a peace symbol sticker on a nuclear bomb does that peace symbol negate the fact that it's on a bomb? What if I stand on the busiest corner in downtown Chicago and yell out "Repent you sinner or else you're going to HELL!!! REPENT!!!"

In my examples, the message of peace and the Gospel are both great messages but the medium which it is delivered is horrible and is ruining and discrediting both messages.

So yes, I think they're both important, but I think that the message is always more important than the medium, while the message is only as accepted as the medium is creative.

So listen up Hmong churches! Where is the creativity? Remember that we live in a post-modern, post-Christian, and post-American world. The church and America are no longer the absolute center of everything. Deciding to sing a song after offering as opposed to singing all of the songs before offering is not that creative, I'm sorry but it just isn't.


Be free, don't limit yourself, be creative, and love God.