You Are What You Worship

A couple or so weeks ago on "Meet the Press," Tim Russert held a “special roundtable” to discuss “the moral and cultural divide of Red State & Blue State America.” His guests were a gaggle of preachers, to whit: Dr. Jerry Falwell of the Faith and Values Coalition, Dr. Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention, Rev. Al Sharpton of the National Action Network, and Rev. Jim Wallis of Call to Renewal and Sojourners Magazine. I was listening rather than watching, and my attention was not that... Sign in to see full entry.

I was reading some of the discourse between Kooka_lives ( The Battle Goes On, Mar 17 ) and Skidd ( God Exists, Mar 15 ). I like the way Kooka thinks, and would like to add my two cents worth in agreement with his proposition that “If there was a God he would most likely have made us as simple as possible.” Of course, it’s nothing you could prove definitively – after all we are dealing with a hypothetical – but there is a logic to it. Why would an omnipotent Magician bother with any method of... Sign in to see full entry.