that was the meaning of life and our constant failure to complete the creation of life we are the ones to use this power to connect us all and give life reason to live

I like your blog a lot and find it to be terrifically helpful. I also am a Christian. And I found this post to be terrifically helpful.

It proves my point that without God you can choose your own morality. You have chosen well. Perhaps Hitler didn’t choose too well. But who am I to juge.

I used to teach High School English and I once asked a guy what he wanted to do with his life. He said he “was going to be a drug dealer.” He meant it.

Your post makes me wonder what you would be doing now if you had never been caught in your life of crime. I think you would probably very rich.

Those pesky laws got in your way.

If atheism is true then anarchy is the most logical form of government. Every law known to man is the imposition of morality. And your theft was not even quasi-immoral.

Let the lion eat the gazelle.

Will continue to read and enjoy your posts. And pray for you.

Regards

Your courage is inspiring. Your story well illustrates the truth that striking growth is possible for those willing to discard crystalized dogma and seek truth wherever you may find it. It also illustrates the great danger that such souls take. Your love of truth has straightened your path; I hope and pray that the rest of us possess the necessary strength and disipline.

Thanks for sharing Steve. I find your aticles extremely focused, guiding, and empowering.

The answer that I found is - It’s not all about me, me, me.
You can perfect the flesh all you want - “a white washed sepulcher”. Wonderful on the outside, but dead on the inside.

I’ve been bought with a price and all I have to do is LET {not force myself} Him live His life through me.

“Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do NOTHING of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.”

Actions speal louder than words ?? -”And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God. And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and offering him vinegar, And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.”

PS - Every organized religion that I’m aware of has perverted this simple Gospel (good news).

NEW LIFE
http://www.metrocast.net/~tdghty/default

(yes, I know you’ve probably seen some outragous stuff from Japan but those are the exceptional hype that makes easy headlines and is not what Japan is really about)

I’ve turned to a belief system of personal responsibility and growth myself, and found a great deal of satisfaction from it.

I have never believed in a God, in fact, I have never even gone to Church except for religious events. However, I consider myself an extremely moral person. For some people a belief in God can structure their life and fill them with the true message of Christianity, which is to be a moral and a good person. The only problem with the world to day is that their are a lot of corrupted people who can twist the ideals of any religion or belief system into one of hatred and anger.

One thing I always find interesting (in my belief that religion doesn’t equal morality) is that Al Capone went to Church every Sunday.

Humans are a fairly recent development in evolution. At some point in the future, humanity will either destroy itself, be destroyed, or evolve into something else.

So it is not necessarily humanity will go on, but Life (in whatever form) will. Maybe.

Before life existed, the universe was composed of inorganic material. If the end of the universe mirrors its creation — which is not unthinkable — life will cease long before the universe ends, leaving only a bunch of boring rocks.