Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Ten Signs that You're Growing Up
1) When you realize that taking out the trash, cleaning up the dog poop in the yard, scrubbing the bathroom and picking up your own dirty laundry are just things that have to be done, so you do them. 2) When you talk more about ideas and concepts than you do about people, you're growing up. 3) When...
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Monday, March 20, 2006
God, the Bible and the Age of the Earth
Assuming the earth is 5 billion years old, as is commonly accepted among geologists, and assuming that we as a planet have about 5 thousand years of written history as is commonly accepted by historians. This tells us based on accepted assumptions that we have 1 one thousandths of one percent of the...
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Sunday, March 12, 2006
A different view of the Christian Crucifix
The symbol so often taken to represent the Christian religion is of course the crucifix. Revered and honored for centuries, prayed to, wept upon, a sign of hope for some, an image of sacrifice to others, the list goes on and on. I want to back up a moment though, and look back in history to its...
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Saturday, March 11, 2006
A comparison between the "Crusades" and US policy. Part one.
Over the last few months I’ve heard a number of references from people of how similar the Crusades of the Middle Ages are to the current US policy in the Middle East proper and adjacent Arab and Islamic countries. I’d like to explore this notion a bit further and attempt to discover if this is...
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