I mentioned, in a comment yesterday, that I had jumped the ship of theism about a year ago, and had somehow gotten caught up in trailing the ship for some time after that. The next few posts will discuss how those remaining ties were severed, and I’ll probably end with something on why I am [...]
I talked a bit about why I am not a Christian, and a bit about the Christ I see and follow, now I’d like to begin stepping into why I don’t believe in god. I’d like to thank everyone that’s read these posts so far, all the comments I have received have been of good [...]
“Students! Do not practice buddha-dharma for your own sake. Do not practice buddha-dharma for name and gain. Do not practice buddha-dharma to attain blissful reward. Do not practice buddha-dharma to attain miraculous effects. Practice buddha-dharma solely for the sake of buddha-dharma. This is the way.” -Dogen I often wonder what would Christianity look like if [...]
I’ve always written about that which was currently going on in my life. It’s easy to tap into that source and come up with plenty to talk about, it got me through my first two years of blogging, but now… now I’m stuck. What if what’s going on in my life isn’t something that needs [...]
Disclaimer 1:Beware: If you can’t tolerate strong language (four letter words) then you may want to leave the site now. If you can’t tolerate strong language but still want to understand why I wrestle with agnosticism, take an hour and read as much of this site as you can. Disclaimer 2:This was written in a [...]
Note: I’ll keep this to religion, today, but these ideas can certainly (and probably will be by me) expounded out to America and our politics. There seems to be a bit of confusion between belief and certainty, and there relationship to faith. Faith, for many in the circles I grew up in, requires certainty to [...]
For some years now you have viewed yourselves as championing the cause of Pro-Marriage legislation, which is more plainly stated: Anti-Homosexual legislation. You have felt the turning tide of public appeal fall favorably on Gay marriage, and see this trend as an affront to your very core being. Your leaders have imposed if Homosexuality were [...]
How does God interact with this world? A question that I’m sure bothers everyone at some point in their life. Who hasn’t had a fervent prayer go un-answered, or at least not answered in the way the pious individual was wanting. Does this mean that God is indeed unconcerned with the goings on of humanity? [...]
So I’m reading “The Divine Conspiracy” by Dallas Willard right now. All I can say is wow, this guy is deep. I’m seriously only on page 50 and he’s already made some pretty profound (well backed) statements. I’ll post up my complete thoughts on the book when I’m done (at the rate I’m reading it [...]