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Why Some Men will Never Leave the Faith

Posted in Apologetics, Christianity, Leaving the Faith, Psychology, Skeptical Thought, Spirituality, Supernatural, William Lane Craig on July 28, 2009 | 12 Comments »

There is nothing like losing all ability to distinguish whether it is the Holy Spirit or a demon speaking to you. Only then did I realize that my spiritual experiences could not be trusted – all of them. And then when I discovered I had complete control over the voices, their presence, what they would say, and when they would say it did I realize that it was all in my head. I personally think it would take something like this to knock some sense into a person like William Lane Craig.

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Not to get too philosophical or anything…

Posted in Spirituality, Supernatural on July 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Honestly, it is quite incomprehensibly beautiful. I wonder if the universe is god collapsing in upon himself at the weight of his greatness. That would be cool. I wonder if a deity would not care what we thought about it, because the deity wins in the end anyway. That would make sense. I wonder if the entire point is that it is impossible for any finite collection of information (e.g. our brains) to connect the dots to a real understanding. That makes more sense.

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Leaving Faith: It’s not About Arguments

Posted in Apologetics, Christianity, Leaving the Faith, Morality, Psychology, Skeptical Thought, Spirituality, Supernatural on July 7, 2009 | 235 Comments »

It is not about the arguments.

In order for a person to leave a faith, the perceived value of leaving the faith must exceed the perceived value of staying.

Evangelism, then, is the art of marketing an idea’s value. Good evangelists dance the dance of making God’s wrath hotter and God’s salvation sweeter. The greater the perception of God’s wrath, the greater one’s perception of God’s salvation. Conversion is ones entrance into a social structure whose entire end-goal is to fine tune and balance this perception of God’s wrath and God’s salvation so that the greatest number of people convert and stay. Those faiths that achieve this balance between threats and rewards most effectively will survive and reproduce.

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Aikido

Posted in Aikido, Communication, Morality, Peace, Spirituality on June 7, 2009 | 8 Comments »

Tonight at Aikido our sensei mentioned something that hit home pretty hard. He mentioned that the difference between aikido and other martial arts is its focus on effecting change in the world – without causing pain. The idea is to alleviate conflict without causing harm to your aggressor. And this got me to thinking a [...]

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