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Running From Omnipotent Morality

Throughout my younger years, whenever I began to consciously think about God, internal rumblings would clash against themselves and stimulate the denial systems I had created to justify whatever bad behavior I was involved in at the time.  The problem was that much of the behavior I thought to be pleasurable had a tendency to [...]

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Coming to Jesus

The small church is full and the preacher is screaming at the top of his lungs.  Many in the congregation are crying.  The boy hears the preacher telling him he is bad, and that God is going to get him if he doesn’t believe in Jesus.  The preacher invites all who are not saved to [...]

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The Softer Path: Just Say You Don’t Know

I lived much of my life embracing a mixture of atheism and agnosticism.  I allowed myself brief intervals of vague faith in a non-specific something, but I was not willing to approach or draw near to the God of my childhood.  The God of my childhood scared me to death!

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Fathers and Sons

My father was a heavy drinker.  He never formally acknowledged himself as an alcoholic, but a person who drinks daily and can consume up to a quart of liquor in an evening might reasonably be classified as an alcoholic.

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Getting Older Makes You Think

I turned 67 years of age last November.  I’m sort of semi-retired you might say, although I still work at things I enjoy doing.  For the past three months I have been thinking about my life to this point and I’ve been thinking about the years I may have remaining.  Frankly, I’ve been thinking about [...]

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