Comments on: My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken… The Rose Parade? http://ironwolf.dangerousgames.com/exwcg/archives/38 Losing Faith in Faith Since 1997 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:29:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: R. Matthews http://ironwolf.dangerousgames.com/exwcg/archives/38#comment-17 R. Matthews Sun, 05 Mar 2006 05:28:35 +0000 http://ironwolf.dangerousgames.com/exwcg/?p=38#comment-17 I remember selling Programs for the 1968 Parade while a student at AC Pasadena (all students were assigned jobs during the Parade doing various things for which they received no pay). The beautifully manicured lawns on the campus were turned into a giant parking lot so the church could make money by charging fees to people needing a place to park their cars while they watched the parade. Ambassador College wisdom told us that God, in his mercy, had caused New Years Day to fall on a Sabbath in 1972 so that AC students would not have to risk their lives by going out into hostile and unruly mobs just before the end of the world selling Rose Parade Programs . . . Of course, if social conditions were going to be so bad, why in the hell would anybody be interested in attending a parade in the first place? Ah, we were never very good at asking logical questions. I remember selling Programs for the 1968 Parade while a student at AC Pasadena (all students were assigned jobs during the Parade doing various things for which they received no pay). The beautifully manicured lawns on the campus were turned into a giant parking lot so the church could make money by charging fees to people needing a place to park their cars while they watched the parade. Ambassador College wisdom told us that God, in his mercy, had caused New Years Day to fall on a Sabbath in 1972 so that AC students would not have to risk their lives by going out into hostile and unruly mobs just before the end of the world selling Rose Parade Programs . . . Of course, if social conditions were going to be so bad, why in the hell would anybody be interested in attending a parade in the first place? Ah, we were never very good at asking logical questions.

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