Mr. 3000

Congrats to Craig Biggio and his 3000th hit! And 3001st... and 3002nd...

5 hits in a single game!!! Woo Hoo!!!

The NEW 10 Commandments...

I know you've all heard already... but don't you think that this is ridiculous???

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/transportation/320413_vatican19ww.html?source=rss


I personally think that the vatican should stay the hell to their own problems...

Father's Day...

As I type this at 11:54 CST, according to my computer clock, I have not yet been told "Happy Father's Day". Not that this bothers me... ok, it kindof does. It just seems that everyone forgot to say it in the hustle and bustle of today. And we did have a very busy day today.

ROTFL

A liar, a thief and a child molester walk into a bar, and the bartender says, "What can I get for you, Father?" -Dan Barker, Freethought Radio

Something that makes sense...

Now before you go off and say that I'm just pulling this out my @$$, I should tell you that I've known about and studied the Unitarian Universalist church since I lived in Boston. So I've got at least a couple years under my belt reading/processing this thought. Plus, this definition below pretty much sums up how I feel. A dictionary version of my life, if you will... I'm sure there will be more to post today. After reading through my long post last night, I realized that I didn't really say everything that I needed or wanted to. And I hardly scratched the surface of what I've been thinking about.



What is "post-Christian"?

post-Christian (post-kris'chen) n. [A 20th C. back-formation from Christian.]1. Someone whom Christians would say is not a Christian, but whom non-Christians consider Christian; applied by Gary Dorrien and other scholars of religion to Unitarian Universalism and a few other groups that were formerly considered to be liberal Christians. 2. One who tries to live according to Jesus’s teachings, but who choses to distance himself/herself from conservative or fundamentalist Christianity by refusing to be called "Christian." 3. In certain cases, a non-theist or atheist who follows the ethical teachings of Jesus.

adj. 1. Pertaining to or derived from the moral, religious, and/or ethical teachings of Jesus, but retaining an openess to other moral, religious, and/or ethical teachings. 2. Heretical, not adhering to traditional Christian creeds; especially including the heresies of unitarianism and universalism, which are still considered heterodox by most mainstream Christians. 3. Post-modern (q.v.) interpretations of Christianity.


1971 Dana MacLean Greeley 25 Beacon Street, and Other Recollections. A question asked of Unitarians and Universalists again and again is "Are you Christians?" I have spoken and written many times on this subject, but I have no simple answer to the question. Most Catholic and Protestant Christians, until fairly recently anyway, would have said that we are not Christians. Most Jews would think that we are Christians. When I told one Unitarian friend that Anglicanism’s Dean Stanley referred to Channing as "the morning star of the second reformation," my friend immediately concluded that Channing was heralding or prophseying a new era, and as Protestantism (resulting from the first Reformation) went beyond Catholicism, so the second Reformation would go beyond Protestantism; a post-Protestant, post-Christian era would begin. Numerous people believe that, or interpret Unitarianism that way. It is a plausible diagnosis, though Channing would never have thought of himself as the forerunner of a non-Christian faith. (For that matter, Jesus would never have thought of himself as the forerunner of a non-Jewish faith.