Anyway, this society loves to devour child celebrities, then get amused while they self-destruct, and throw them away with a bit of mockery after they cease to be amusing. Lindsay Lohan gets out of rehab, and immediately party-rags are offering to host her 21st birthday party in Las Vegas, the whole Britney Spears thing, etc..

On a related note, I heard that Britney and Jaime Spears’ mother is writing a book on parenting. I think it’s going to be called either “How to Prostitute Your Daughters for Fun and Profit” or “Everything I Did Was Wrong, So Do The Opposite,” depending on how well she understands matters.

I really don’t know much about the Hannah Montana phenomenon, I’ve assumed that it was pretty tame, but that’s without knowing anything first-hand. We don’t have cable in my home, and I don’t miss it.

On the other hand, I hope that you’re right about Billy Ray Cyrus. One can recover from mistakes, and I hope that that’s what this is.

The idea of letting your daughter pose nude, regardless of the presence of a blanket, is just so revolting.

She’s a kid. It shouldn’t have happened. The questions this brings to mind:

(1) What was Billy Ray Cyrus thinking?

(2) What kind of magazine photographer thinks that we really need nude photos of 15 year old girls?

… The article said that she regretted it afterward. Sadly, of course, the pictures can’t be unpublished, and I’m sure they’re floating around on the internet for everyone to see.

I think you’re right to call him on this one. She’s a teenager. If someone tells her that the pictures are an artistic thing that famous people do, she might get suckered into that. That’s why we don’t treat kids her age as adults.

He has no excuse. Not only is he an adult, he’s been dealing with celebrity for a decade and a half or so. He should be thinking clearly.

I do not believe that I have reached this point in my salvation. No, not nearly. I am on a journey there though, and I must believe that it is possible through Christ. All things are possible through Christ who strengthens us. It is possible to so completely annhialate the self so that sin is a very rare occurence. It is possible to be grounded so firmly on the Rock of our Salvation that we cannot be shaken by anything.

The active sanctification is the journey to that point, which does ultimately lead us to death. But I believe that it is possible to be like Christ on earth before death. Indeed, that is what we have been called to. I think that we often expect far too little of ourselves. We need to set our standard at Christ, which means perfect selflessness in all that we do; but more then that, we need to believe that it is possible to reach that standard through Christ. How will we every reach it if we do not believe it is possible? Anything that Christ did, we also can do, because it is Him who lives in us.