Category: witness
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My Faith Is Autistic
I am coming to grips with the fact that I have never been a religious person. My heart just isn’t in it. I am a man of faith however because I know the gods are more diverse than all the books about them. I first started to question Christianity when I was about fourteen or…
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Parental Visitation
My dad and mom stopped in for a visit. My dad isn’t doing very well with a lot of medical issues. He’s not in pain which is good. And he’s still got a lot of fight in him. I love them both but every visit I worry this will be the last time I see…
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Spider in the Kitchen
I’m a big fan of spiders. We usually just leave them alone. We’ve got a big ambush spider on the corner of one of the steps going into the basement. It has been there for weeks so it is obviously eating well. I’m cool with that. A little while ago I saw a chunk on…
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Homeless Pork
My homeless friend came to get his mail today. He’s still unfortunately reporting our address as his place of residence. If the police come looking for him I will tell them the truth. He also brought four pounds of frozen pork. Well, he claims it was frozen when he got it. It was room temperature…
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Skins
One of the people I love was hurt today. It was very intentional on the part of the attacker. I have trouble humanizing people like that. I don’t think they are even human today. Lower than pond scum. I looked up one of my favorite verses in the Quran and studied the Arabic. It basically…
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The Bible is Sometimes Wrong
I reject infallibility and inerrancy. I reject it for the Bible and I reject it for the Quran. The Book of Mormon acknowledges the faults of men in it. That is how I can hold all three books in my head at one time. There is only one good, one pure, and one perfect and…
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Clouds
Ben and I walked to the convenience store again today. The sky looked really weird so I took a couple of pictures. The first is going to the store, and the second is coming back from the store ten minutes later with the camera turned 180 degrees. Sometimes natural art is better than anything I…
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Quiet Sunday
I’ve been fairly productive today. I’ve helped keep track of boys and the cats. I’ve helped with laundry. I’ve done my scripture study and hymns. We sold an old phone to be recycled for a whole dollar. I even had time for a shower between video games and social media. Nothing too awesome or weird…
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Missionary Visit
A pair of full time missionaries from my ward showed up unexpectedly this afternoon. We talked for about an hour. They’re good “kids.” Twenty somethings. Straight out of Utah. We talk about life, The Church, the church apps, my lack of orthodoxy, and Stephanie’s Druidry. I also tried to explain the “empty holy” to them.…
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Not so Sola Scriptura
Today I has been thinking about the Protestant concept that the Bible alone is the only source of divine truth. I was discussing it with a Catholic friend who rightly points out that the canon of the Bible we have comes from Catholicism and that the Catholic tradition is bigger than the Bible they gave…
Latter Day Sinner 