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Culture crippled by religion – Failing to respond to sex crimes and other horrors 13 May 2013 | 05:35 am
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Trigger Warning : This post discusses issues around abductions, sexual abuse and sexual trauma. I have not been a victim of violent assault. I am not a v...
Reconstructed and delusional thought histories 2 Nov 2012 | 10:52 pm
800x600 I don’t know why I assume that everyone has had an experience of marveling at the peculiarly of where they are, who they are, and what they perceive their lives to be. I have had dozens of the...
Moving forward... 21 Sep 2012 | 06:59 am
800x600 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE So… How’ve you been? Yes, yes. It’s been a long time, I know. What have I been up to? Well….. - I got divorced. I did post, once, right after tha...
Religion didn't destroy my marriage, but it played a big part. 5 Dec 2011 | 08:32 am
I received word that my divorce is finalized. We filed in September which is when I went incommunicado on the Blog, on Facebook, everything. I wanted some time for reflection. I’m not sure that I refl...
Don't worry too much. It happens to a lot of people. 8 Sep 2011 | 03:25 pm
I didn't post this to my FB page like I wanted to and like I should have. Why? Because I knew that everyone that should learn something from it would probably just stop listening once they felt accuse...
The terrible power of faith: Javon Thompson 5 Sep 2011 | 03:40 pm
I have often said that it isn’t religion, per se, that I object to. It’s the faithful adherence to dogmatic certainties. This can take the form of devotion to state, party, economic principles, and ca...
Why the LDS (Mormon) is a logical choice: The Trinity 25 Jun 2011 | 02:09 pm
What is the Trinity and what role does it play in our understanding of God? The Trinity is the very concept of the roles of God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost. It establishes some of the most fundamental d...
Why the LDS (Mormon) faith is a logical choice: Prophecy 15 Jun 2011 | 02:28 pm
This is the second to the last in my series about how the LDS faith (Mormonism) is a relatively logical choice among the Christian denominations. I am doing this series for two reasons. 1 – I think th...
Why the LDS faith (Mormon) is a logical choice: Original Sin 8 Jun 2011 | 03:01 pm
One of the traditional Christian doctrines that bothered me in my initial investigations was the tenet of Original Sin. The idea that we are “created sick and commanded to be well.”* The assertion tha...
Why the LDS (Mormon) faith is a logical choice but it’s still wrong: Purpose and heaven. 21 May 2011 | 09:36 am
I mentioned in my first post in this series, that I came to the Mormon Church initially as a result of that faith’s ability to provide the best logical answers to the existential questions I was wrapp...
