Now I've been to Paris
and I've been to Rome
and I've gone to New York City,
and sadly, I've been to Lebanon, TN
Well, maybe I'm using a little poetic license on this cover of a Counting Crows song, but I'm sure if Adam Duritz (Happy 47th on Monday) had been to Lebanon before he wrote this song, it would have made it in. Adam grew up Jewish, I Baptist. Adam most probably is not kosher and I most assuredly do not ascribe to the dogma asserted on me by my Sunday-School teacher. Don't get me wrong, I believe in God, but unlike my Southern Baptist brethren, I think if God didn't want us to drink or dance, he wouldn't have invented so many varieties of delicious Bourbon. This brings me to Pastor Joe Nelms who seems to be a man after my own heart.
Now I'm no fan of NASCAR, but I, like every other red blooded, heterosexual, Southern man, appreciate the faster things in life. And a man of the cloth that is confident enough to send God a little 'thank you' note—on national TV no less!—for all the foreign manufactured, American products that power "These Mighty Machines," is a preacher whose theology I would be intrigued to entertain. So, Pastor Nelms I salute you and my new favorite post script for a prayer.
34 Days until Football Season!
Boogadie Boogadie Boogadie, A-Men
~March Hare~
When I first heard that I thought it was Will Ferrell recreating his Ricky Bobby character....obviously just some bat shit crazy southern minister.
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