Here’s a really good atheist store I found. Well, primarily atheist and science stuff…

Aristotle’s Muse

Sadly, sinful men have corrupted the meaning and purpose of the bible. Just the way it was corrupted in the garden of eden. Alert!! The bible message is for the few and not the many.

The few are the remnant (meek) who will inherit the earth. They are the future government who will bring God’s purpose to completion (1000 year reign). If you know one in your lifetime, don’t oppose them.

In between that time you are on your own morally and spiritually. You can do what this author suggests or whatever you want.

For the few, they are the children of God.

Just wanted to let you know we posted your article entitled “My Homoerotic Relationship with Jesus” on COAS.

http://seminarianblog.com/2008/02/25/my-homoerotic-relationship-with-jesus/

We’d love to have you over there if you want to check it out or be there for the discussion. Thanks again!

I can’t help but think you will be responsible before God for the way you are leading your wife and children….the fact is you are supposed to be leading them in righteousness, not rebellion.

“righteousness” is not a word that has a lot of meaning to me anymore. I am a flawed human being, and although I will do the very best that I can, I will continue to be flawed. So I don’t lead my wife in “righteousness”.

In fact, I don’t tell my wife what to believe at all! If there is one thing I have taught my wife, it is that in this country, you are liable to nobody for what you believe or don’t believe about God. You don’t have to answer to your culture, your background, your society, your family, your pastor, your friiends, not even your spouse – you believe whatever it is that allows you to be intellectually honest with yourself. If you have to pretend or force yourself to “believe” things that you just don’t intellectually, you are just a fraud. You are no better than those cheap salesmen who put on masks and don’t show the world who they really are.

My wife is Catholic, and she loves her faith, but not some of the more conservative angles of it. When my mother-in-law found out that I was not catholic, she was aghast. (she knows nothing about my atheism, just that I am not catholic). She did not want me to marry her daughter. But I cannot pretend to believe things I do not – I will be a miserable SOB if I did that. So I asked her, “what do you think is more important – that I love your daughter, cherish her, respect her for the rest of our lives – OR that I believe in the Trinity?” Intellectual honesty is of greater moral value to me than any church creed, doctrine, belief system, religion or faith – and before you but in and correct me – it is above any ‘relationship’ with a diety too.

If I ever have to face God and account for my life, all I have to say is that I was honest – honest with myself, and with everyone around me. That is what I have taught my wife too. She believes in a God that makes sense to her, not one imposed on her by her parents, her friends or least of all, by Rome. God will know that I cannot accept him on blind belief, because he did not make me with that capacity, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. That is the best I can do, and if God cannot accept me like that, I can’t help that. Personal integrity is too great a moral virtue to me to sacrifice for living in ‘righteousness’