Tag: Jesus
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What Do You Do When The Reality Of A Pandemic Contradicts What Your Religious Faith Wants You To Believe?
I draw a very clear distinction between spirituality and religion. But then, I would — I’m an atheist. A spiritual atheist. I commune regularly with the cosmos though I’m quite sure the cosmos does not commune back. The cosmos couldn’t give a rat’s ass about me. I accept that. I stand in awe of the…
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Show Me A Person Who Claims To “Speak For God” & I’ll Show You A Person Who Thinks They ARE “God”
This really should be a no-brainer. Ask ten theists what “God” is & you will get ten distinctly different answers. Ask 10 ardent theists — evangelicals, say — what “God” is and, if you listen really closely, what you’ll get is a person describing themselves. The absolutes and the moral imperatives heavy with the weight…
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The More A Person Loves Their Church, The Less Spiritual They Seem To Be
I bet that lights a few fires. First, let’s define “church”. We can’t define it the way Jesus would have defined it because Jesus never imagined “churches”. He was born, lived and died a Jew. He knew from temples. And — if you recall — Jesus preached AGAINST the temple and the temple authorities. They…
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The Most Frustrating Thing About Anti-Semitism Is What It’s Based On: NOTHING
I’ve said here before that I grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust — in a Jewish suburb of Baltimore just 20 years after the camps were liberated. Many survivors lived in my community. I can tell you from experience — it’s damned hard for a little kid to wrap his young mind around…
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Show Me A Televangelist And I’ll Show You A Fraud
Sometimes you have to pick the low hanging fruit just to get it out of your face. Televangelists are, by their nature, low hanging fruit. Some televangelists however hang even lower — they’re that rotten. You thought “stinking rich” was just a saying? There’s nothing wrong with being a writer and selling your books. Even…
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Every Evangelical Has A Deep, Dark, Dirty Secret — They All Think THEY Are “God”
Ask ten people what “god” is and you’ll get ten distinctly different answers. That’s not because “god” is such an expansive, all-encompassing concept. It’s because “god” is an “idea” you can alter on the fly. The magical power god has one moment, he doesn’t have the next. Or he chooses not to use them that…
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There’s An 800 Pound Gorilla In The Room — A Crazy Form Of Christianity Is Now Running The Country
Want to know what’s scarier than a zombie coming to eat your brain? An evangelical opening his mouth to speak. Let’s get this straight: what happened to us in 2016 was nothing less than a coup d’etat — a messy love triangle of first rate Russian spy craft with American Right Wing Money and America’s…
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The Deep Down Dirty Secret Inside Every Evangelical: They All Think THEY Are “God”
Ask ten people what “God” is, you’ll get ten different answers. That’s because “God” didn’t invent us, we invented “him”. Ask ten Evangelicals what “God” is and they’ll draw you a word picture that, if you stripped it of all the larger-than-life puffery would look exactly like them. For reference-sake, let’s remind ourselves that Jesus…