Rev. Mark Sandlin: Clobbering "Biblical" Gay Bashing

Oh sure, this time around we have “softened” our approach, saying things like “hate the sin, love the sinner,” but we fail to recognize that what we are calling a “sin” and the person we are calling a “sinner” are one and the same. A person whose sexual orientation is homosexual, or bi-sexual, ( Read more... )

Figured it was going to happen sooner or later. Had a customer comment on the baby-- just the usual stuff at first, asking when I'm due, if it's my first one, etc. Used to that now that I'm showing. Then she makes a sharp turn off the highway of normalcy onto the narrow dirt road of TMI and asks if I'm planning to breastfeed or bottlefeed ( Read more... )

Got a friend request on Myspace from an atheist group. (I haven't made any posts about religion there, so I assume they found me due to my clicking the 'agnostic' option on the profile sidebar ( Read more... )

In the sermon, MacArthur said America had forsaken God and engendered the “wrath of abandonment” as a result. MacArthur declared: “You know a society has been abandoned by God when it celebrates lesbian sex.” MacArthur further argued that as a result of America’s abandonment, the destruction of a major U.S. city “could happen” and that “God would ( Read more... )

An excellent essay dealing with my favorite Bible passage.

Ew ( Read more... )

This is a neat idea.

And this time I can blame awritersfantasy for my utter lack of productivity today. ;-) Go here to make some of your own.


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This is an interesting little entry on agnosticism, some of the history of it, and different kinds of agnostics.

Thought some of you might like it. I'm an agnostic spiritualist, myself. :-)

I haven't read The DaVinci Code-- not really my cup of tea-- and I wasn't intending to see the movie, either ( Read more... )

ursulav, with her thoughts on the Gospel of Judas and the editing of the Bible. . .

Since humans are the same the world over, I would lay money that some of the proto-gospels were crappily written and full of Mary Sue disciples who all had green eyes and Jesus fell madly in love with them and...wait, was that the Last Temptation of Christ? Well, anyway, ( Read more... )