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A brief Introduction:

While studying to be a pastor in college I abandoned my faith. In fact, I abandoned everything I thought I believed and rebuilt.

To my own surprise at the time, I found that Christianity was much stronger than I had thought. As I rebuilt my belief system, I realized that there needed to be people out there responding to the questions people have. I had them myself. So, while not continuing on to be a pastor, I have focused on educating people about what Christianity is all about and responding to the various charges and accusations made against it.

There are some obvious challenges to being successful in that capacity, but a big part of it consists not in arguing with atheists and skeptics, but rather in providing Christians with accurate information in the first place to prevent them from leaving the faith in the first place.

Questioning is a very normal and natural part of growing up, and I am convinced that it is not wrong to ask questions of God at any age. God doesn't strike people down. On the other hand, if people are going to reject Christianity, it is my aim to at least make sure they reject the real Christianity and not a false view of it. Also, much heartache can be avoided by educating Christians properly to begin with. My experience has helped me... but it was unnecessary.

Paul said that some plant, some water, and others reap the increase. My job is to go out into the land and move rocks- or break them if necessary- till the land, and struggle through knee deep fertilizer... all in the effort to allow those who come later to plant, water, and reap the harvest. I look forward to the prospects of either serving you as someone who needs to haul rocks out of the field, or as someone who can look at the field, detect problems, and help farmers more effectively plant, water, and reap.

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War Declared on the Church of Scientology: Do I Grab the Popcorn or the Pistol?

Posted by Anthony on January 26, 2008

I saw today that ‘war’ was declared on the Church of Scientology. The video is pretty clever:

The Youtube page has some interesting comments on it and so does this location of the file on Brietbart. Some interesting comments, including some interesting perspectives, like the one by ‘atheist1′ on the Brietbart page who said that belief in Scientology “is just as crazy as believing there is a man in the clouds judging us. Can we declare war on Pat Robertson too?” This goes to show you that whether with religion or without, atheist or theist, there are nuts out there. (The only difference between the atheist nuts and the religious nuts is that the atheists claim high reason and deny that atheists don’t actually say the things they say).

Comments of more substance had to do with whether or not this is a persecution of religion. I certainly wouldn’t want to get caught supporting the erection of a slippery slope that eventually harms my own right to free exercise. There is also a strong smell of vigilantism and I’m not a big fan of that. However, the Church of Scientology hasn’t been fighting fair for a long time. They’ve been taking advantage of various freedoms for religion that others have paid for in blood. A bloodless take down of the ‘Church’ of Scientology seems hard to oppose.

And maybe that’s the key point at this time. It is just a Youtube video that could have been posted by a 13 year old. It doesn’t even have to be a nerd. Youtube would allow even your run of the mill junior high school student to post the video, though I admit the vocabulary in the video argues for older. What do these people intend to do? How are they going to go about it? That something ought to be done certainly makes sense and it seems like little to this point has been done. I shall have to wait and see just what they have in mind, if anything.

As for the title of this post, of course I have to take the popcorn route. I’m not anonymous, unlike certain content parasites out there. That makes me an easy pick for the CoS.