The Hall of Fire

As long as you are OK with the fact that I'm not perceiving your "belief system" as It means belief systems outside patriarchal religion. Unaccepted, dishonored, perceived as worthless , if that is part of what the name "heathen" means to you. I'm a Christian that doesn't make t...

Just know that I feel like you all, you quirky little family that I have grown to love, mean a great deal to me. It grieves me that I could be perceived to be, on whatever visceral level, as representative of people who would inflict such a horror. I feel so much more a part of YOU than of the mons...

VMan, I think it took an incredible amount of trust and bravery on your part to try to analyze what it was you were feeling, there. And, of course, to share it. I knew there was something that was causing ancillary stress, but I didn't know what it was. I thought it was just about one religion tryin...

I remember as a small child, praying that prayer in church, wondering why we were pledging our belief in the Catholic church. I mean, I'm sure they're good people, but if we believe that they're so cool, why aren't we just Catholics ? :scratch: And then our priest filled us in on the little "c&...

Marry me, TP?






Or have I already asked you? I do tend to lose track....

I can see where Jews for Jesus would be irritating for people who are currently Jewish... and whose families have been practicing Judaism for generations. There is a bit of a flavor of "you guys sure missed the boat 2000 years ago" about a sentence which says something like "Christia...

It's one of the largest churches in the country these days, notice that? I HAVE noticed that. :) What you are, in regards to God, is what you are in your heart. If you believe in Christ as your savior, it sure seems to me like you are a Christian. If you never even tell anyone that that is what you...

Well then you're on, big guy.






(And I so totally agree!)

The kids wear jeans when they aren't wearing shorts. Someone once remarked on that to our pastor, and his answer was, "But the kids are here." Well, that philosophy just makes SENSE to me. It is true of my "current" church, the cultish one ;), as well. And, really, if one takes ...

Dammit, that does it.


<sw0000n> for vison...

Well, I'm not sure it's a problem with the church of England has with me, Prim... I think it's a problem my parents have with me, and the decisions I have made about where I attend services. I attend a non-denominational church, which my parents have characterized as a "cult". They used th...

Really quickly: <snerk> Any post that I have to scroll down to read in its entirety is NOT a "really quickly" post. Just sayin'. :P For example, there was an orthodox rabbi one place where I lived who, for an extra donation, would allow female converts to enter the mikvah in their nightgo...

Sassy, I am sorry if anything I wrote offended you. I was being fairly honest with my thoughts (and posting from work, which limits the editing and brooding about my word selection time), and perhaps a bit less careful than usual. I don't recall writing that other creatures don't matter to God, and...

CERIN! You called me missy!!! :horse: You have SO made my day. :horse: :horse: :D I am also extremely pleased that I have not imbued every single one of you with every single detail of my life; I was thinking the other day that you guys probably feel like you know everything about me, whether you ev...

Cerin, this is wonderful! I was just wondering this same thing at work, today. (Strange how your mind wanders whilst staring into a microscope )

Thank you for starting this topic!

I, for one, do not think God is by any means "black-and-white, either-or" but is, in fact, infinite - with an infinite number of shades of gray. And certainly so far past my understanding as to be a complete mystery. The concept of an after-life; of heaven or hell and who goes where - is ...

Me either, hal.

For Ath and Eru: <snip>Other than that, focus on yourself, and YOUR relationship with Him. That's all you are really called to do. So what of those troubling words, about "the only way to the Father is through me?" Well, He's still God. Believing that Christ died for you, and that his bloo...

:shock: You are SO not going to believe this, but when I typed out "When an infinite mind tries to fill a finite mind, there's going to be spillage", I was THIS CLOSE to typing "The obsequious brush curtails Truth in deference to the canvas which is narrow", instead. It's the dar...