Category: witness
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Christmas Cynicism
If you’ve spent much time with me online you know that I have grave and growing concerns about Christianity. Today I watched A Muppet Christmas Carol. Near the end Scrooge wipes the snow off his own gravestone to reveal his name. He begs the ghost of Christmas future that it will not be so. But…
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Centipedes
We have centipedes in the basement. I’m pretty sure they help to control the population of smaller bugs. We prefer a few natural predators to poisons and traps. The centipedes fill a niche in the ecosystem of our house. The move around so unlike our dearly departed spider Bob I can’t tell them apart or…
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Saving the Earth
There are two kinds of environmentalists broadly speaking. The first group want to save the earth FROM humans. They argue that we are a plague or an infection and that the earth is better off without us. saving the earth FROM humans means letting it go back to it’s natural state before we started exploiting…
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Spirit
I’m becoming more solid in my monoaltrism. Human things like father, mother, and child proceed from spirit. I muddle things by using the term Holy Spirit. That is a specifically Christian concept from the Trinity and is only repurposed a little to fit the LDS Godhead. But if our origin is spirit and manifest gods…
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Cinnamon and Vanilla
Cinnamon and Vanilla is the best flavor combination. A little sugar or a little salt on something crunchy is perfect.
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Radical Islam
Trigger Warning: This post may not be legal where you live. I believe that at its heart Islam is a religion of peace. But there are 7th century ideas that do not have a place in the modern world. Killing apostates is murder. Even if it is allowed where you are God will punish you…
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The Long Walk
There’s a little comic book tract called “The Long Walk” (you can read it online). It talks about a man who thinks for himself and puts off converting to Christianity until a later date. He meets a guy on the spacious highway who tells him he’s right, and that he doesn’t need Christianity yet, because…
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“Mormon bad. Smith bad. You Cult.”
I got called a cultist yesterday. My skin is getting thicker about the accusation. I’m starting to realize it usually comes from people that don’t actually want to engage in theology. If someone says Protestantism is better and wants to make a positive argument about grace, salvation, or the trinity it is possible to have…
Latter Day Sinner 