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The Why There is a Different Opinion Christian and Evolutionary Biologist Looking Under a Rock to See What’s There Before I look at the evidence, let’s take a giant step back. Something is going on here on a psychological level that would allow two individuals, both decent people and rational, looking at the same earth,…
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What’s at Stake As I type this article, Christian nationalists, Russell Vought et al., are dismantling America’s science and education programs. This will be devastating for our country going forward and we will not recover from this damage for many generations. Sadly, only a tiny percentage of Americans consider themselves Christian Nationalists. But this whole…
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I have finished my series on the dereligionization of Jesus of Galilee. I have found many great writers, podcasters, and others communicating about the honest and straightforward teachings of Jesus, as juxtaposed against the religious interpretation as we see in the present political world in America. However, there are a few topics that I don’t…
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One of the perks of living on a mountain lake, on a beautiful, and cool (compared to the heat in the rest of the country) island, we have a plethora of friends and family who want to visit us. I am therefore sorry that I’ve been consumed with these wonderful people. I must also add,…
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I don’t usually do organized tours when I travel. One exception was in 2016. I had gone to Malta for almost a month to finish writing my book, Butterflies in the Belfry. I was staying in a five-hundred-year-old tiny stone flat that had started as an animal stable and still had a manger carved in…
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Health Update A group of people come here primarily to follow my health status. I try not to post on that unless there is a change. I am at a crossroads with my cancer treatment. Multiple Myeloma is still considered an incurable cancer, although treatments are rapidly improving. I had failed four chemotherapies and bone…
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I will be clear once more, I think the institutional church can be wonderful and those who love it just the way it is, have my full support. I’ve said many times that I’m involved with a very good church but I don’t like all parts of the American church culture. However, the impetus for…
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I am steering away from a discussion about the organized church for a moment. I just listened to a podcast that, to me at least, illustrated the profound contrast between religious Christianity and following Jesus. I will define the two once more. I see religion as a human-created system of rituals and beliefs that have…
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The Elephant in the Room (Church) I feel like I’m standing on the edge of a minefield, getting ready to navigate to the other side. “Church” is the most sacred of cows within Christendom, and I sense that many Christian people have a hair trigger, listening to what they think I’m saying and reacting. So,…
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I want to clear that the primary reason that I am drawing a line of demarcation between the Christian religion and the simple followers of Jesus of Galilee is because the Christian religion is in a death spiral, and for good reason. The “following of Jesus” is the proverbial lifeboat off the religious Titanic. I…