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The purpose of religion isn’t to show us God, but to incarcerate God in a controllable concept, one that would benefit that religion. That’s how it’s worked since Constantine; it is human nature, and religion is a human enterprise. I’m not saying that all religion is evil, or even bad. Those that teach hate, injustice,…
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I am working on editing my new book, How Cancer Taught Me to Swear. I worked through this section today, and while it needs more work, I thought it was a concise story of how I left Christianity and then re-converted to Christianity, but apparently a very different Christianity than most people today follow. I…
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I had a brief conversation with a Christian the other night, and it went something like this, my paraphrase and enhancement for clarity: Other: “I see all these younger people leaving the church, and now they have nothing- no meaning or morals.” Me: “I think we need to decouple the belief and relationship with God…
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Sometimes I follow a thought into the weeds, a cul-de-sac with no easy way out without allowing for misunderstandings that I’m just venting personal grievances. At that point, I have only one choice: reboot and start again. As I’ve shared many times, the thing that keeps me awake at night is people, just like me…
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My wife doesn’t usually read my blog posts because I think some of what I write makes her cringe. She was rightly disturbed by me saying I have no Christian friends. She worried it might offend Christians who do consider us their friends. First, I must apologize for putting it so broadly. Yes, I certainly…
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Since I observed dishonesty in evangelicalism in 1990 and left that movement, my views have evolved. Watching the decline of Christianity in America, for me, was like being up in a hot-air balloon that is sinking toward hostile territory, and you are jettisoning all the extraneous weight to keep it afloat. Soon, I discovered that…
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If you’re 100% certain that God exists and that certainty defines you, this next series of articles isn’t for you. But if you honestly have questions, sometimes doubts, or wake up in the middle of the night with the question, “Is there really a God?”, then come along for a frank discussion. For twenty…
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Above is Richard Rohr, a postmodernist; there is no truth; you create your own reality; the new Pied Piper of the progressive church. I want to do one more post in this series, then put it to rest. Again, to be clear, I am not attacking the traditional church. I adore those people who love…
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I am posting at breakneck speed because I have been ill for the past two weeks, battling once again bronchitis that is trying its damndest to turn into pneumonia. My cancer is of the immune system; therefore, I am very vulnerable to infections and, indeed, the most likely way I will die is from an…
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The media theorist Marshall McLuhan famously wrote, “We don’t know who discovered water, but we know it wasn’t a fish,” describing cultural blindness to prevailing norms. We can’t see our own culture until we’ve tried living in a completely different one. But even when we experience a different culture, we can assimilate or become like…
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