Disclaimer: As with the other posts I have written in this series, these meditations are intended for those on whom institutional religion has largely given up. You’re damned anyway, may as well enjoy the ride to eternal hellfire. First of all, then, I urge that prayers be made for all people, for kings and all […]
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Our Daily Dread: What if God Doesn’t Technically “Exist”?
(Disclaimer: In the spirit of my last Note, these meditations are only intended for the marginalized and the misfits. From the standpoint of the establishment you’re damned anyway, so who cares? Being heretically interesting is the least of your problems.) *** And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over […]
Our Daily Dread: What Sin REALLY Means
(Disclaimer: This brief meditation is intended for those whom the religious establishment has written off as too fringe and misfitting to be considered welcome among the piously faithful. If you find yourself among the marginalized, by all means read on. But if you feel comfortable within American Christianity, perhaps it would be better to move […]
Letting the Tale Wag the Dogma
I’ve been doing a series of posts exploring the freedom one gains by unclenching a bit, epistemology-wise, and admitting that as Christians we should have more in common with the agnostic than we do either with the atheist who is certain God doesn’t exist or with the theist who is certain he does. I’d like […]
Slaves ‘n’ Gays
In my last post I put forth the following suggestion: Perhaps the New Testament is not a frozen-in-time snapshot of what perfect morality should forever resemble, but instead just reveals a step in an ongoing trajectory that is moving increasingly toward the ideal of love of the other? I have been exploring the idea […]
The News’s Skewed Views
One of the questions that comes up in podcast #9 at 28:45 (available for listening below) is whether or not the news media unfairly represents police officers. If you watch the news frequently, the majority of what you’ll hear about the police (minus the occasional feel good story) is negative: cop beats homeless man, cop […]