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The Cult of Christianity

Christianity was founded roughly 2,000 years ago on the shores of a big lake in the Near East that still exists today – the Sea of Galilee. It has its roots in a small town that still exists today in present-day Israel – Bethlehem. Its foundation was made permanent a city of much strife for [...]

Freedom: Laws Redefined Tattoo

This is my newest tattoo, the one I am calling “Freeom: Laws Redefined”. It is a cross made of 2 nails, with an 8 made of 2 more nails. Faith and Freedom are two of the most core ideas to my being – indeed, the intersection of those two ideas is what has driven much [...]

Free Will and Divine Omniscience

I had a Facebook friend overnight put up this statement:
You can’t have free will if God knows what you are going to do, before you do it.
The thing to remember here is that God exists outside of Time, which is a human construct. Therefore, Free Will vs Divine Omniscience becomes a frame of reference issue.
The [...]

It Wasn’t My Choice, OK????

Those are quite possibly the words that changed my life forever.
I’ve been railing against a group I see as legalists and Pharisees for a couple of days now, and I figured it is time I admit a dirty little secret:
I used to be one.
Much like Saul, I was trained in “church” by some of the [...]

Christ Had A Choice – And So Do You

As I grow in my relationship with Christ, and as I grow towards what I know to be my destiny, I occassionally get these “lightning bursts” that to me feel more like electricity, but that Jeremiah once described as a fire burning in his bones that has to get out. They aer always unexpected, always [...]

Reflections on 'Good' Friday

As we enter into one of the most holy days of Christianity, I wanted to share my thoughts on the concept of ‘Good’ Friday.
You see, to me, most people get lost in either the genuine holiness that is Easter Sunday – which is a good thing, so far as it goes – or they get [...]

Abortion

This is also from the email series that generated so many of the other posts here at SWGA Jeff so far…
Again, the LP-Ga position (under ‘Sexual Rights and the State’) first:
Recognizing that abortion is a very sensitive issue and that libertarians can hold good-faith views on both sides, we believe the government should be kept [...]

Gay Marriage

From LP-Ga, on ‘Sexual Rights and The State’:
We hold that individual rights should not be denied or abridged on the basis of sex or sexual preference. We call for repeal of all laws discriminating against women, such as protective labor laws. We oppose all laws likely to impose restrictions on free choice and private property [...]

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