Forging Order Out of Chaos
Greetings, It feels good to write again. I much prefer it to the video format because I can slow down and say what I want to say exactly how I want to say it, rather than snatching words out of the maelstrom. I burned out on writing in college, and my time as a teacher was spent writing assignments; nothing too inspiring. I hope you find something here worth your time. My interest in religion is complicated. It really has devolved into a struggle between small "o" orthodoxy and the mounting evidence against it. I finally surrendered to reason, but not without much struggle, because for so many years I believed salvation was dependent on purity of belief rather than purity of action. I had a strict religious upbringing in the Baptists/Evangelical tradition, and if there's one thing these people do not tolerate well it's uncertainty in religious matters. They absolutely must have some guarantee of heaven; they must know and "prove" the Earth to be 6,000...