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Limited Liability

In quantum morality, we each carry a limited liability. The trick is to learn the limits, not mythologize them. Yesterday was my run day, but with the route still buried under ice and snow, I took it to the gym. … Continue reading

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Truth Needs No Defense

First, take a moment to play out in your mind all the different meanings of the title of this post. Right here in Oklahoma, we have a monument to the Ten Commandments on state property. It’s been there since last … Continue reading

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Shepherd Tough

We are shepherds; we exult in our toughness. Not that we idolize the little engine that could, but we each seek to be the little engine that would. It is not the toughness of “we can do it” but of … Continue reading

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Morality Laundry List

A handful of questions regarding biblical morality arose in the past few weeks and none of them justify a post by themselves. As always, keep in mind the fundamental use of quantum moral reasoning. Masturbation is a Western obsession; it … Continue reading

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The Business of Prayer

Context is everything. A key element to all my religious babble on this blog is recognizing that you cannot blindly inject your own cultural prejudices into the process of reading the Bible. Scripture arises from a radically different mindset than … Continue reading

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Job 18

We begin to understand Job’s visitors do not grasp what parables are, and do not comprehend symbolic language. God has always preferred parable as the means to communicate to mankind because it winnows out the spiritually dead. Only those with … Continue reading

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The Mythology of Uniformity

As one reader noted, with full consciousness I subject the intellect to the Spirit. The mind was granted by God to serve the Spirit. Western Christianity typically presumes to intellectualize the Spirit, and that’s backwards, because it subjects the Spirit … Continue reading

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The Core of Human Existence

No grand theory here; I’m struggling to echo the Bible in modern Western terms. Let’s pretend, maybe something along the lines of the Fallout series of video games. Trailers and bits of game play can be found in good quantity … Continue reading

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Some Limits Apply

The atheist or secularist who takes a poke at faith is merely shadow-boxing. Since they can’t hit the real thing, they simply castigate the effects. Faith is unreasonable in the sense of being far above reason, operating in a different … Continue reading

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Job 17

Job’s visitors demand that he tell a lie against God. They have no objective evidence at all that Job has sinned such that his situation is punishment for some specific error. Instead, they have only their pitiful reasoning. What they … Continue reading

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