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Do You Suppose…?
Let’s pretend for must a moment that I’m not some kind of madman or gibbering idiot. I will admit I’m passing through some inner turmoil. The flesh is never ready to serve and mind recoils at things it has never … Continue reading
Ironic Job Offer
So today in my email someone tried to steer me to a job opening as local coordinator (for Tinker AFB) for MAAF — Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers. They like folks over 55 with social media experience and an … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, employment, MAAF, military, Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers, philosophy, Political activism, propaganda
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Virtually Connected
(More on the peculiarities of this ministry.) We are held together by a most gossamer thread. So far as I know, none of the members have met in the flesh. A handful of us chat through services like Facebook. A … Continue reading
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Tagged internet, mission, mysticism, spirituality, virtual church, writing
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All of the Good Names Are Already Taken
(I’m preparing a document to help explain the peculiarities of this ministry. What follows is a first draft, but there is more to come.) We are a virtual parish with no physical organizational manifestation. Strictly speaking, we do not claim … Continue reading
In Which the Gloves Come Off
Some of this is hyperbole, but you’ll have to work that out for yourself, because I am a radical, a total nut-case. You know, that English word drawn from the Latin radix, meaning “root” — as in, getting back to … Continue reading
Peeling Away Evangelical Mythology
Our culture is dominated by the illusion that reality can be objectively measured, as if the universe could exist without humans. God revealed that the universe would not exist were it not the proper setting for telling a story with … Continue reading
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Tagged assumptions, Christian mythology, civilization, culture, David Meece, epistemology, human perception
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Evangelical False God
It never stops. Every where I turn, I keep encountering the same blindness, though expressed in different ways. And the people who wallow in that blindness rarely seize the hand offered so they can be pulled out. Mercy cannot be … Continue reading
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Tagged epistemology, law, old testament, scripture, spirituality, Western Christian mythology
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Information Activist 2
If “activist” means striving to force a change in government policy, then I am not one of them. It seems I often have to explain why we are not supposed to participate in democratic government: It’s fundamentally immoral. Democracy is … Continue reading
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Tagged christian activism, computers, culture, democratic government, government, internet, moral character, Noah's Covenant, Open Source software, resistance, tribal government
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Catacomb Chrisitianity
The unique volcanic soil on which Rome was built remains soft and easy to dig until exposed to air, then it hardens into a solid structure. We keep finding new warrens under Rome, typically segregated by religious traditions so that … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient civilizations, Catacomb, evangelism, government, moral imperative, mortality, oppression, persecution, Richard Wurmbrand
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