October 10th, 2006
Quote of the Day: On Faith
Faith dares the soul to go further than we can see.
– William Clarke
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September 16th, 2006
Creepy “Got Jesus?” TV Commercial
I saw the creepiest and most inappropriate commercial last night for a local church. It starts off looking like one of those sports shoe or drink commercials where they’re going to tell you to “Just Do It” or make you feel that everything is attainable if you just drink their blue sugar water. There’s a guy on some high man-made structure out in nature. The sun is shining, he’s drinking from a sports bottle, there’s inspirational music playing, he’s about to bungee jump. The music climaxes. He holds up the drink to the sky and then jumps. The bungee cord
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May 11th, 2006
Blogthing: What’s Your Religious Philosophy
Hmmmm… I took this blogthing that I wandered to from James’ blog.
The strange thing is that the first time I took it I got:
| You are Agnostic |
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But by changing my answer on #3 from “There are simple scientific explanations for the universe” to “our soul will survive death”, I got: Read the rest of this entry »
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May 10th, 2006
How I Refused To Take A Commitment Pledge
When I was 18 years old, my whole life was pretty much centered around my little Southern Baptist church. I know some of you might find that hard to believe. It’s true though.
I’m not saying that I wasn’t pushing the envelop back then. I was, but I was pretty secure in my Faith. I just thought a lot of the “rules” the Church had were on the ridiculous side. I thought the Church was a bit close-minded and uptight and I kind of thought that the Pastor and his wife were a bit choosy about which Bible verses they thought
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May 9th, 2006
Why Is Jesus’ Virginity So Important To The Christian Church?
With all the hoopla over The Da Vinci Code movie coming out this month and the mainstream media and blogosphere reporting on the Teen “Virginity Pledges”, I have to admit I’ve been pondering the big questions about religion and faith and “The Christian Church”.
Mostly, I’ve been wondering what the big deal about virginity is. (As the World’s Oldest Virgin, I have the right to wonder.)
O.K. I get that Jesus’ birth was a miracle virgin birth signifying that only God himself could have actually impregnated Mary. I see where that is significant.
But what I don’t get is this big hang up by the Christian Church on Jesus’ virginity. Why is it so vital to their Faith that he be virginally chaste for 30+ years?
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March 21st, 2006
Afghan Could Die For Christianity
Imagine living in a country where you cannot choose what god you want to worship or how you wish to worship or even if you wish to worship. Imagine living in a country where making that very choice could mean life or death. Imagine a country where owning a Bible or a Koran or a Torah could be a crime in itself. Imagine living in a country where you are considered a traitor or mentally ill if you convert to another system of belief.
KABUL, Afghanistan, March 20, 2006 — Despite the overthrow of the fundamentalist Taliban government
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February 24th, 2006
The Trouble With Hell
I believe there is a God, a benevolent Creator even.
And, yes, I believe in the Big Bang Theory and evolution too.
I believe in an afterlife too, but I start to have trouble when I think about the concepts of Heaven and Hell.
I just find it hard to believe that a benevolent God would sentence anyone to an eternity of pain for some infraction committed in such a short lifespan.
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February 2nd, 2006
I Am Alive & Going To England
I appologize for seemingly abandoning this blog. The truth is that I’ve been distracted by more than a few things in my life:
- My grandmother’s death, as you know, took me somewhat by surprise and has caused me to do a lot of self-inspecting. Plus, I want to be there for my mother who I think took it a lot harder than me. Plus, the planning for the memorial service the weekend before Valentine’s Day in Florida.
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January 5th, 2006
My Quest of Faith
My step-grandmother was Buddhist though she never flaunted it in front of my very Protestant family. 
One night in the hospital while my grandfather laid on his deathbed, the hospital chaplin chatted with my Vietnese step-grandmother about her faith. She told him that she believed that there is one God but that we all have and need different ways to worship him. Outside of her long lost eggroll recipe, this was perhaps the most important thing I could have ever learned from my quirky, sometimes mysterious step-grandmother.
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October 20th, 2005
Apparently I’m a Humanist
Well, the results of this quiz surprised me a little. I do believe in an afterlife and believe I am a Christian and I think I have a lot of faith in the spiritual; however, I do believe in working to make the world a better place…very, very interesting…
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August 31st, 2005
The Lord Works In Mysterious Ways
Last night I got to thinking about “what-ifs”.
For example, what if my parents hadn’t moved from New Orleans and what if I hadn’t moved from New Orleans.
The truth is that I would never have left New Orleans if I hadn’t lost my job in December of 2003. I would have stayed in New Orleans and I would have even stayed in the city for the hurricane. Yep. I would have been one of the stupid ones. I admit it. It’s a psychological control issue of mine that I like to know the status of my
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