{"id":1766881,"date":"2022-12-07T18:48:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T23:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1766881"},"modified":"2022-12-07T18:48:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T23:48:38","slug":"what-restaurant-names-and-grocery-carts-have-to-do-with-spiritual-aridity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-restaurant-names-and-grocery-carts-have-to-do-with-spiritual-aridity\/","title":{"rendered":"What Restaurant Names And Grocery Carts Have To Do With \u2018Spiritual Aridity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhat-restaurant-names-and-grocery-carts-have-to-do-with-spiritual-aridity%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1766881&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>What is your weird pet peeve? What is something minor that annoys you to no end?<\/p>\n<p>They often seem silly to others, but sometimes these \u201cpet peeves\u201d can highlight real problems in society.<\/p>\n<p>At least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-55-my-biggest-pet-peeve-and-my-thoughts-on-workplace-relationships-jojo-siwa-needs-to-leave-candace-cameron-burre-alone-protect-your-kids-porn-is-now-available-in-a-place-you-d-least-expect-it-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that\u2019s the case with mine<\/a> \u2014 poor restaurant names \u2014\u00a0as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/the-matt-walsh-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Wire host Matt Walsh\u2019s<\/a> pet peeve of people who don\u2019t put away their grocery carts.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with Walsh\u2019s frustration with people who go to the grocery store and then just leave their carts out in the parking lot. It doesn\u2019t take much effort to do so, but some people are just lazy and selfish \u2014 they can\u2019t even bother to walk 20 feet to the cart corral. They have no regard for other shoppers.<\/p>\n<p>As Walsh says, \u201cI truly believe that the entirety of a person\u2019s character can be assessed based on what they do with their shopping carts after they\u2019ve unloaded their groceries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His full explanation can be seen here:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>It\u2019s hilarious, but he is correct: You can assess somebody\u2019s character by these little mundane things that they do throughout their day.<\/p>\n<p>Well, here\u2019s my pet peeve.<\/p>\n<p>Every single time I pass a particular restaurant here in the Nashville area, I fly into a rage. Why? Because its name is \u201cTacos 4 Life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What is that? \u201cTacos 4 Life?\u201d Why is it called that?<\/p>\n<p>I get super angry every time I see it. My husband asks me, \u201cAre you OK?\u201d because he can tell it\u2019s bothering me.<\/p>\n<p>And I say, \u201cNo, actually, I\u2019m not OK. I just think they could have named the restaurant anything else. \u201cTacos 4 Life\u201d is so childish. It\u2019s something you expect to see on the back door of a high school bathroom stall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This happens all over the world with stupid restaurant names, but there\u2019s something about that name that is so childish. It drives me insane. Yet across all industries, people are naming their products or business with made-up names that sound like something you would see on TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>So, the other day I realized you can draw a direct line between Walsh\u2019s annoyance with the grocery carts and my frustration with restaurant names.<\/p>\n<p>That connection occurred to me while I was finishing up a book titled, \u201cCatholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith,\u201d by Bishop Robert Barron.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Barron has a couple of tremendous quotes I want to share. These words help illuminate what\u2019s wrong with America today.<\/p>\n<p>The first quote is, \u201cIf God is a great gathering force, then sin is a scattering power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, jumping off that, what happens with errant grocery carts or juvenile business names? Well, we\u2019re really scattering both the cart as well as language respectively. Throughout the English-speaking world, we have abused language. On social media especially, language is mutilated and thrown around carelessly. It seems nobody has time for proper English.<\/p>\n<p>Our country is filled with people who speak in colloquialisms. We have professors who say the rules of grammar are racist and that we shouldn\u2019t expect black students to follow them.\u00a0It drives me up the wall. I like complete sentences. I like complete words \u2014 so don\u2019t put a number four in the middle of your restaurant name.<\/p>\n<p>The second quote says, \u201cIn the elegant formulation of Saint Augustine, we have turned from the Creator to creatures, and as a result, we are wandering in the land of unlikeness, which is to say, a place of spiritual aridity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Again: We have turned from the Creator to creatures.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t you see it all over our society? Something that was a creation \u2014 which is to say something that was full and whole \u2014 has now become sad or scattered. It has become a sin, it is something that has now become a creature.<\/p>\n<p>And that is what is actually driving Walsh crazy at the grocery store. That is what sends me into a mini-rage.<\/p>\n<p>We are all wandering creatures, suffering from this ubiquitous spiritual aridity.<\/p>\n<p>Many people are just not whole anymore.<\/p>\n<p>To further my point, I want to impress upon you the definition of the word \u2018Arid\u2019:<em> lacking interest or feeling; lifeless and dull<\/em>. Another definition is: <em>exhausted of moisture; parched; dry; barren.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what I see when I look around me, people who cannot speak in complete sentences. We see this same dullness and lifelessness in music, entertainment, and modern art as well.<\/p>\n<p>So, since we\u2019re lacking this wholeness and this fullness in our culture \u2014 we are now starting to embody it on the inside.<\/p>\n<p>We are walking around like creatures who know that there is something missing.<\/p>\n<p>So, I guess what I\u2019m trying to say is, please, if you ever have a restaurant, give it a proper name. And if you\u2019re at the grocery store, just put the cart back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is your weird pet peeve? What is something minor that annoys you to no end? They often seem silly to others, but sometimes these \u201cpet peeves\u201d can highlight real problems in society. 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