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Continuing on with the series...
Was Jesus a historical figure?
Some believe there is enough evidence to say yes, and others believe there is enough evidence to say no (or at least not enough evidence to say "yes" definitively). I tend to be a fence-sitter on the issue who leans...
People who take the stand "This isn't what I wanted, but I guess it must be what God wanted" really drive me up the wall. Typically, in my past in particular, these people have (and continue to be) mostly been Christians of course. Don't get me wrong, on occasion I'm apt to say something of a...
The Bible / Scripture
Someone once asked me, if the reason I do not take the Bible literally was all about not putting the label of "God's Word" onto that which is an "old fashioned" or "narrow-minded" practice. I responded simply, 'I suppose it depends on how you see it for yourself,' as...
I'm cross-posting this from LiveJournal... I haven't done that in awhile, I think I might start doing it again.
This started off as a tiny little facebook status change, and grew far too big for the contents of the box. When I moved it over to notepad, suddenly I realized that this was going...
I wanted to talk a little bit about something that came up for me the other day. I had blogged about it briefly and realized it might be of use to other people as well in a more well-known resource, rather than simply sitting in obscurity on my personal and somewhat anonymous website and blog...
There are a lot of quirks and crevices to having an anxiety disorder. It's not at all straight forward, and never will be.
The one thing a person with anxiety conditions like mine even wants? Is understanding. Sadly, this is also the one thing that he or she will never obtain. The only...
So-called "real" feminists want the term to be taken seriously. Someone from another social medium of mine, wrote a piece about how feminism is not about women being greater than men, but it is about gender equality.
The problem with the term "feminism" is that it doesn't imply a meaning of...
A conservative scholar is conversing in a public dialogue with Marcus Borg, and the conversation goes as follows:
Conservative Scholar: "In addition to all [the] historical arguments for being confident that Jesus rose physically and bodily from the dead, there is one more reason I know these...
Every now and again, on internet forums and social networking utilities and so on and thus forth, the question arises to most people of religious affiliation, just out of curiosity...
"If someone held a gun to your head, and asked you to renounce God, or die... what would you choose?"
And...
I almost made this post on my forum today, but I knew that I shouldn't. I knew that it wasn't the right place to bring this up, that it would hijack the entire thread either for the content of my post or for the fact that I was trying to make a point away from the OP... plus the fact that it was...
Disclaimer: In writing the below note, I'm taking extremes of each group into account. Please don't get your panties in a bunch over this one...
Right... so picture a triangle (for people who are already confused: That would be a three-sided shape). Let's make it an equilateral triangle...
We only live once, right? But people are busy living a tight-rope balancing-act life, between what they must do, and what they dream of doing. What about the middle ground?
Where is the point at which we come to understand that a dream is perhaps not as attainable as we once thought, yet the...
Some days I wonder why God made me like this. Why did He create me with this anxiety?
Then I stop to ponder... that God created my "self", my "soul", my "spirit" or essence.. but anxiety is typically a brain mis-function, a bio-chemical issue, or comes about because of environmental factors...
When it comes to suicide, people are quick to say "There's a better way" -- or worse: There was a better way. The words "coward" and "selfish" are often used to describe suicidal individuals, typically more so of those who make the attempt rather than those that succeed. A faux-pas I suppose to...
I wrote this as a response to someone on a forum, and I wanted to turn it into a blog entry so I didn't lose the text:
Not understanding what you believe and why is a common plight in the modern-day western world. No one has any interest in it any more and people grow up unaware of traditions...
You know... the most radical claim that Jesus made? Is supposedly the most important, and is probably the most overlooked on a regular basis:
"In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law of the prophets."
But, if everyone actually lived by this particular...
It's that time of year again: Christmas.
Oh sure, it's been Christmas in our house since about early-November... but I mean it's now really really Christmas. With only 16 shopping days left, you know the season is finally in full swing.
From a religious perspective, Christmas is a time where...
I truly believe the anti-gay advocates around the world bring God to tears.
To deny equality to your fellow man, regardless of what kind of lifestyle he or she lives, is absolutely unacceptable and unjustifiable. Worse, it is not "of God" in any way, shape, or form.
Sadly, it is Biblical...
While I was writing a previous journal entry, a topic came to mind: What have Christians learned from the death of Jesus (or the story of the death of Jesus, depending on what you believe)?
First will come the cliche answers: "Oh Jesus loves me! JESUS LOVES ME! Jesus took away my sins... Jesus...
A few months ago, I posted this. I wanted to re-post it just because of how much I love it though ;) These were my responses to common child-free questions. Enjoy!
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When are you going to have children?!
When they come out potty-trained...