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Selling Santa – Religion and Politics
You want to celebrate Christmas? You think it’s reasonable to glorify Santa Claus, or romanticize him in the doing of it? That’s your choice (however silly I might see it as being). For my part though, I’m more concerned about people’s exposure to Jesus, and their understanding of Him.
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Φαρμακεία (Pharmakeia) – Religion and Politics
It seems to me that modern day glorification of various medications (as well as various kinds of legal and illegal substance abuse), as things that make the world a better place, are actually reliances on what once would have been called magic or sorcery.
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Their Job – Religion and Politics
You’re my telephone service provider? What do you suppose I want you to do? How does, “your JOB” sound to you?
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Crutch – Religion and Politics
Put simply, in basically nothing, do I look at my circumstance, and say, “This is all God’s fault.”
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Fact Checker – Religion and Politics
In short, when somebody presents him or her self—fact checker or not—as some sort of oracle, you should politely decline to accept him or her in such a role.
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Hate – Religion and Politics
If you’re a rightist, you’ll challenge folks with whom you disagree on the basis of at least perceived facts and ideas. This does not tend to be true for folks on the left.
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Abolition – Religion and Politics
If I had a message to impart in this little piece, it would be that the answer is not to abolish or ban ways of doing things—most particularly not through governmental rules, laws and regulations.
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Pursuing Pleasure – Religion and Politics
It’s been some time, since I took the time to write anything for my little blog. I spent my time for about a year, creating what amounted to a video blog. I’d very much like to get back to doing that. In the meantime though, I’d like to try to take some time to write […]
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Who’s Responsible – Religion and Politics
Remember this. Others may well affect various situations in which you find yourself. In general though you’re responsible for the outcome. Failing to look at things in this way, may result in dire consequences.
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Inner Strength – Religion and Politics
It’s often not an easy thing, to edure the struggles and difficulties of life. Doing, so can make us want to give up on that toil at times. That said, being able to look at the struggles and difficulties of gallant, valorous individuals, and realize maybe what we’re experiencing isn’t as severe as we’d like to think, can be helpful to realign our perspective. It’s hoped we can come to really understand, what inner strength looks like, when we do.