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Introduction In 1966, American psychologist Abraham Maslow said, “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” My nail is the thirty-thousand-foot view of the grand flow of philosophical viewpoints that determine how each culture thinks. If the perspectives I mentioned…
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It does not matter if you are a Christian or not, the Christian subculture has had a significant impact on the present predicament of the American culture. Donald Trump could not have influenced American politics or culture (beyond a silly reality show) without the help of American evangelicals and conservative Catholics. It was reported that…
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Prolog Soon, I will make a major shift in this blog’s direction back to its original charter: to speak to those disillusioned with or who have left Christianity or theism, asking the tough questions that are not allowed in church meetings. But, before I move to that new format, I wanted to nail my thesis…
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This is one of those posts that I write on a whim. When I am overcome with emotion, but I don’t have the time to write well. There will be no proofing of this text, so bear with me. I cry at all funerals now. Ever since I was first caught up in the whirlwind…
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I would have been considered an evangelical from the time I was born in 1955 until I departed the movement in 1990. I took ownership of my evangelicalism as a high school senior in 1973 and was a zealot for the cause for the next seventeen years. Jimmy Carter was the first candidate I voted…
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Below is my latest, Episode 22, of The Healing Hut. It is a race against the backdrop of a lung infection, getting the heat on and a toilet installed, in time for Christmas guests. I hope you are having a fantastic holiday. Mike
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Sometimes ideas come to me in the middle of the night and I write them down. When I read them the following day, they seem negative. This is what happened with this last post. It felt so positive when I wrote it. For over a decade I’ve been corresponding with, and writing for people who…
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I am a Christian Skeptic. While that is not the norm in Christian religious settings, it is quite the norm for those who are leaving Christianity for good, at least the skeptic part. It is with these leavers that my heart rests. Regarding the pursuit of truth, there are two normalized approaches within Christendom at…
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I am bringing up this topic of the Christian and the LGBTQ community once more because opposing LGBTQ people, along with abortion, are the two major banners under which the American conservative Christian church marches, including evangelicals and many Catholics. It defines them and calling themselves “Biblical” is a code name for meaning that they…
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No words in any language can express the overwhelming sense of gratitude one gets from living for a period in earthly purgatory, on death’s door and then returning to almost normal living. To experience an intimacy with God that didn’t seem humanly possible before. I think the liberated from the Nazi death camps understand the…
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