I’m often accused of being overly pedantic when it comes to the use of language. Words are our primary means of taking things from one brain and inserting them in another. Even the best of wordsmiths find this a frustrating and imprecise process. There is no means to actually know that what […]
Here’s something interesting that God told me. Sometimes when we pray for inspiration, when we ask God to show us the way, we get an answer that comes from neither God nor the Devil.
Apparently a lot of times prayer works like a form of self-hypnosis. We program our subconscious to work on the […]
Live each day as if it will be your last. That’s a maxim that a lot of people like to cite to encourage us to live life to its fullest, to help us to avoid looking back with regret.
God tells me though, that many people just use it to justify their own selfishness. […]
Many Christians believe in the Rapture, an event that involves the simultaneous bodily ascension into Heaven of all those who believe in Jesus Christ as their savior. This happens at the end of the Earth, or I suppose, of the universe, as we know it. After the Rapture, give or take a few […]
I asked God how he feels about people being born again. He reminded me that being born again has a different meaning depending on what religion one subscribes to. The term mainly refers to the Christian evangelical concept of renouncing your life prior to “accepting” Jesus Christ as your personal savior and giving […]
God tells me that most parents miss what should be one of their proudest moments. Somewhere along the way, most children reach a point where they make a decision to do the right thing not because they fear either punishment or disapproval from their parents, but because they genuinely understand that it’s the right […]
There seems to be a continuum of holiness. To me it seems to go from bad to good something like this: Devil, demon, damned, sinner, saint, prophet, disciple, angel, messiah, God. In that taxonomy the Devil and God are the end points, singular superlatives. Everything else, with the possible exception of […]
One of the things that all religions seem to have in common is lots of rituals. Christians have their masses. Catholics have the Rosary. Buddhists meditate. It seems that everybody has some sort of formal prayers. The Muslims have to turn and face Mecca several times a day. The […]
I got to thinking about “magical thinking” today. Most people engage in magical thinking periodically, some people can carry it to extremes but for most of us I think it’s just a bit of fun. Just so were on the same page, here’s what I mean when I say magical thinking. I […]
There’s a notion out there that the Earth is only six thousand years old. The people that believe this are called Young Earth Creationists. The logic behind this comes from a detailed and literalist interpretation of the Bible, along with the notion that in the Biblical listings of lineage that no one was […]
Does God ever get high? Maybe not the most interesting thing to ask her, but today I did.
She pointed out that artistic portrayals and avatarian illusions aside, she doesn’t have a physiology in any sense that makes sense to the question. That having been said, though, she did admit to occasionally playing around […]
One of the ways we define people as crazy is that they hallucinate. They see things that aren’t there, they talk to people that don’t exist, they live in their own little worlds. Now I’m not talking clinical definitions here, just things that the ordinary man on the street can see and call […]
Perhaps I’ve gotten too used to just hanging out with God. Yesterday he showed up in the form of Thor, the Norse God of Thunder and just by walking into the room nearly scared me to death. There’s something about seeing an old world God in all his magnificence that lets you know […]