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About Religion

There seems to be a great deal of confusion about religion.  Religions came into being long before God picked the children of Israel to be His chosen people.  Religion started at the Tower of Babel.  Mankind is born with a need to worship and this need will select almost anything to be fulfilled.  Celebrity today, is the primary avenue that man chooses to direct his worship.  Sports is also high on the list perhaps higher than celebrity.   God did not come to create a religion.  He sent His Son, Jesus Christ to restore a broken relationship.  It is all about relationship.  God wanted to once again have a relationship with the mankind that He had created.  The only way that was going to happen was for the sin problem to be dealt with.  Mankind's relationship was lost with God when sin entered the picture.  Unbelief in what God told Adam and Eve to do with respect to the tree in the garden whose fruit was not to be eaten led E...

Our Extremist Court

I am so upset today that our Supreme Court, poorly named I must say, should be our extremist court has once again decided to do away with the rights of individuals and side with corporations.  I do not in any way believe in abortion but I think it is most unfair to thrust my beliefs upon others especially those who are unfortunate enough to work for me.  I will not be shopping at Hobby Lobby anymore and I would encourage all of those who love crafts to look elsewhere for a supplier.  What has happened to the rights of individuals?  It seems that we are being drug into a monotheistic government and for myself I think that is a dangerous path.  Whose god are we going to be serving: the true and living God or some other god devised by man?  As Stephen Prothero wrote in his book, "God is not ONE", we are heading down a slippery slope if we think that the god of the Mormons is the same God of Christians or that the Allah of Islam is the same god of the Buddhist...