Because their whole agenda is about aggressively pushing their beliefs, advertising themselves, and creating as much drama and fear in order to convert the poor lost souls as possible. They have to "spread the gospel".

Athiests and agnostics follow their more natural inclinations of wanting to just stay away from the whole religious drama as ( Read more... )

I guess it's fitting for me to end this where it pretty much started... Bye Seth, you were one of the good ones.

It's important to have something to stand for. "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." Right? I want to have a good relationship with those close to me, but how do I do that when they think I'm a sinning soul headed for hell? And when I know that their beliefs lead them to make very prejudiced and discriminatory choices? When ( Read more... )

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I think my livejournal is dying as a result of my new affair with Facebook. I do however also have Google Reader to blame. I now simply share my favorite articles through my shared page. It seems that that's enough. But I will try to keep up on here.

In the meantime, here's my shared reader page: Leave a comment

Something's wrong, I think.

The man who murdered Doctor George Tiller had the most ridiculous thing to say from his jail cell: "I haven't been convicted of anything, and I am being treated as a criminal," Roeder said.

Um... what exactly did he expect? He did shoot a man to death in a church.

What annoys me more than that fact that most blogs out there talking about pantheism are misinformed, is that it's the christian ones that are not only misinformed but most often so sure of how pantheism is either flat-out wrong or furthermore, evil. It's really obnoxious. They don't even know what they're talking about.

I want to say a few things about Lost's Finale. I have a couple gut feelings, this first being that I don't beleive Faraday was right about turning back time and fixing things. I also believe that Lost writers are going to a keep with a compatibilistic view on free will, and the past will not be changed. All so far seems to hint in that direction. ( Read more... )

http://keithwormwood.deviantart.com/gallery/#_featured

Just thought i should link to this guy, he's an amazing artist.