ijames777

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Fort Worth, Texas, USA

The www is for local home owners association, but the site is mine. I am writing another, all for fun. My religious affiliations are varied as follows: I was Methodist when young and proud of it, then Baptist (but I hated the horrible guilt), then and still presently Catholic (this was due to a marriage to my cradle Catholic wife.) <br /> I above all believe in a God that loves us, but doesn't control us and doesn't favor one over the other. I truly hate it when someone blames a person for their misfortunes as if they had it coming to them due to their sin (e.g. as in disease.) I presently am changing again as evidenced by becoming ordained. I have a religious degree<br />from the University of Oklahoma, but at the time I got it I didn't feel called to the ministry, but I somewhat do now. I have had a full life of working in the U.S. Navy Nuclear Submarine program; as a nuclear chemistry technician at a commercial nuclear power plant; a computer programmer; a batch mainframe processer. I have been retired a bit and writing web sites for fun. <br /> I don't know what to think about all the religions. I tell you guys and gals it seems that a new one starts every thousand years. Perhaps God is just not ever finished, truly finished with us and the whole trip is a cyclic mystery. My own bent is as a follower of Jesus Of Nazareth, but would I really recognize him today or would I think Him to be a quack? Outward behavior that is significantly different from the masses would label a person as strange indeed. I would have to be able to look in His eyes and see the Spirit, too. And feel the power that Jesus is. Perhaps that's why He had to leave so soon. God knew people had to have an "above-it-all-God."<br /> I always thought that God draws as many people to Him as possible through denominations, that is, no one denomination is the correct one. I say that I follow Jesus, but I don't think I truly do all that Jesus may have said to do. I will not go into all the world to teach, unless the Internet counts, but ALL, come on, can I really go into all the world. I know He probably meant as a body of believers. <br /> Even though I think Paul was probably the first Christian <br />"heretic" (small 'h'.) He said a very astute thing that I admire, "work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." And thus depending on which way history swings, heresy is not necessarily a bad thing.<br /> I think the goal of Christianity is to change the individual human heart. Change it of the quiet moment or in a massive flash. The heart, that term we all use for the spark of love consciousness is the awareness that to hate a person is to hate part of us, too. Jesus' goal was partly of one to show us that there was too much hate in this world. Too much intolerance of the diseased or lame or different, um the same as it is today! Jesus, God wants us to be aware of each act or thought of hate to remove it from our lives and that my friends will save us.

ULC

Minister Philosopher, Texas registered massage therapist

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