Well, it's over before it started. Today, I stumbled upon a blog written by the wife of a pastor that set my blood to boiling. I want absolutely no part in the Western church, not even a liberal community like that of the UUC. To remind myself of this particular blog later, I'll record a general summary. The entry began with a woman mentioning ( Read more... )

It was a rough first semester, but ultimately a rewarding one. Now that I'm beginning to feel settled in professionally here in Champaign-Urbana, it's about time I worked on expanding my social circle. I've met a fair number of people so far in our department, but I don't think I've really clicked with anyone as friends. Part of that, I think, ( Read more... )

Be afraid, be very afraid. I'm doing my part to spread this to others so as to let people know that something this fucked up is actually happening in this country. Maybe if enough intelligent people get clued in, we can make sure it doesn't spread beyond their "right" to practice this kind of "religion" and screw everything up for the rest of us.

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My ambition is a curse because I'm sometimes afraid that I'll never be content ( Read more... )

I took some time yesterday to ponder the concept of the devil, which I feel was quite approriate considering the date. We've all heard at least a couple dozen times that "The cleverest thing the devil did was trick mankind into believing he didn't exist". If Satan were to exist, however, I'd argue that that was at best the second cleverest thing ( Read more... )

So apparently there is quite the controversy brewing around here about saying a prayer at a high school graduation. In Shelby County (just East of here), a young Muslim girl objected to having a Christian prayer at her high school graduation, spoke to her principal, and he has complied. I got an e-mail on UofL's activist listserv that pointed to ( Read more... )

Relationships most definitely involve some work, which is perhaps one of the many reasons I've never done very well with them in the past. Now that's not to imply that I feel my current one is going poorly (quite the opposite actually), but that doesn't mean that its not tiring ( Read more... )

Well, I'm all for promoting secular humanism, but I think these people at this site here have clearly found a line and crossed it.

Information about the DVD they are planting everywhere can be found hereNow I watched the film, a paltry 60 minutes, of which only 20-30 are actually devoted to the analysis of historical evidence. The evidence itself ( Read more... )

So I suppose that the tone of the weekend was set by the article I read at work on Friday about the new fangled "Judas Gospel" or whatever they're calling it. Front page news in the CJ, beating out the war and the riots in France ( Read more... )

In general, I suppose, I just want to share food with members of any and all cultures. The sharing of food is a symbol of trust or at least tolerance. I think, though, that its more than tolerance. I tolerate my neighbors but I don't knock on their door and ask them to come over for dinner. No, I think the symbolism of the sharing of food ( Read more... )