Day: July 31, 2012

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Are giant, mega-churches good or bad?

America has long been a hotbed of fracturing and consolidating.  At any given time, dozens companies are becoming conglomerates while existing conglomerates are spinning off subsidiaries. In religion, America has one giant denomination, the Roman Catholic Church.  Methodists, Presbyterians, and the other “mainline” denominations are disappearing before our eyes.  Many survive on endowments accumulated in […]
Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Crucifixion allegories are justly unpopular.

The crucifixion of Christ was a turning point.  Without the Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascension the ages would not have been divided into two:   the years Before Christ and those After Christ. Two thousand years after Christ, William Jennings Bryan, touting Free Silver in his endless Presidential campaigns, announced that “You shall not crucify mankind […]
Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

“For the glory of Your Name, O Lord, deliver us.”

The Old Testament records that God punishes people, and entire peoples, for disobeying His Commandments. Catholic Fundamentalists say that another way:  The First Programming Log is there to show that The Loving Programmer has written and downloaded The Creation Program.  Without His merciful interference, it punishes those human programs who do not follow His Operating […]