I'm tempted to write an open letter to Dear Abby or whoever along the lines of, "Jesus said the greatest commandment is to love God, and the second greatest is to love each other as we would ourselves (Mark 12:28-34, Matthew 22:34-40), so why the hate? Why spend so much time trying to beat down those who we should love unconditionally?" More than ( Read more... )

There's a subset of society--I don't think I have to be too specific about it, but you're familiar with the types--that has been allowed to live without having to face reality, so they don't, and when the time comes to go forth into the world, they're screaming, helpless babies. It's become frustrating to deal with said group, even when they're for ( Read more... )

Lon Solomon of McLean Pastoral Bible Church is at it again. I heard his drone and "Dan Brown" and I knew exactly what I would be thinking in the next sixty seconds ( Read more... )

Good lord, 105 chapters--not counting Prologue and Epilogue! What exactly does Dan Brown use to determine chapter breaks, might I ask? :p [Trying to beat the *137* chapters for Angels & Demons?] It makes me feel mildly better about my own writing, though, with its deliberately-arranged "by day" divisions and chapters that on average attempt to ( Read more... )

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The topic of Intelligent Design comes up now and again on To the Point, and I've actually managed to round out my opinion of the subject, unbelievably. Originally, it sounded like Creationism trying to edge its way in by using scientific terms, but it's really a bit more subtle than that... not so much Creationism as an idea that everything was ( Read more... )