RagingRev

As you all can see RagingRev.com has gone through a bit of a face lift…and now that I have most of the kinks out of it I need to get the logo design straightened out in the header…it is a little blank up there and guess what? I still don’t do any sort of photoshop work…that’s right, I’m lame.

So…if anyone wants to volunteer their services, OR tell me how much you want for your time and the rights to whatever image you create please leave a comment or email me with that information and I will get back to you, please also include an example of some of your previous work if you can.  I am willing to put some cash up for it if it is really good and/or EC credits or advertisement space.

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Recently our friend over at The Atheist Blogger wrote an interesting piece on Religious Child Abuse. In it he posted a video from a BBC Documentary about the Drapper family, a fundamentalist Christian – home schooling family in the UK.

In the Documentary posted in 6 parts below; Deborah Drapper, age 13, is extensively profiled. The cameras follow her around while she goes about her daily activities , interviews her about her faith, and even goes with her on a trip to her brothers college apartment. Deborah is naive…very much like I was at her age…She is an intelligent young girl, my intention is not to call Deborah stupid  here, at all.

When I was about 15 years old I decided to start living my life for God again…I had been “saved” at the age of 6 just like Deborah claimed to be.  At these young ages both Deborah and I claim to have understood 1: That man was depraved and doomed to eternal torment and 2: That Christ died on the cross as a scapegoat for our sins – thereby saving anyone that accepted this belief in Christ and his sacrifice from the eternal furnace. Do you think we could have possibly understood this? Do you think that we could understand the Biblical fall of man or the doctrines of Atonement? I truly don’t. I think at the earlier age we were merely repeating the things we had heard from church, or in Deborah’s case – her parents.

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WOOHOO. So, I found a site with all sorts of really nice themes and I really fell in love with this one- It is called Javazine and it was built by the folks at Kriesi. It took a while for me to tweak it to work well with the main plugins, but I think it looks great…now if I can figure out how to remove the Javazine logo from the top banner…I am awaiting a reply from the developer on how to do that…I bet its something really easy to do. If you see any bugs in it please let me know via commenting on this post.
Speaking of comments, I am currently working on getting IntenseDebate fully installed and all the old comments imported, lots of the comments may seem to have disappeared but i still have copies of all of them as far as I know.

Psalm 14 says:

¹The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. ²The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.³They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one. ⁴Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.⁵There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous. ⁶Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge. ⁷Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad

The Psalmist David asserts here that the godless individual is immoral…that without God the only possible product of our selves is corruption and greed. If this were true I would assume that the religions associated with the Old Testament would never be seen with such scandal, yet they are often the most corrupt of people…of course I hate to use straw men so I won’t use the obvious lack of proof here or the fact that religion does not always equal morality…we’ve been over that before anyway. What I will do is use this passage as a study in why the Christian mindset is so often that people ouside of their own religious circle are all a bunch of filthy evil-doers.

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My ole budy Guy Vestal over at HeresyToday.org has decided to start an old fashioned mailing list for Religious discussion. I am going to be helping him moderate it and we want people from every religious background to join up…so please…do so…it should be lot’s of fun!

To join just go HERE and fill out the info. We are looking for anyone from any background…Wiccans, Christians, Zebras, Atheists, Theosophists, Raelians, etc etc etc…

Save Me From Myself - courtesy Amazon

About two years ago Brian “Head” Welch , former guitarist of Korn, made headlines when he turned from the “Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll” lifestyle to accepting Jesus and becoming a Christian. Since then Head has released a Christian album  and book called Save Me From Myself.

More recently Korn’s bassist Reggie “Fieldy” Arvizu has given his life to Christ as well. He, like Head,  has a book that just released on March 10th called Got The Life to tell about the kind of person he used to be before he made the decision to follow his own understanding of God.

Got The Life~courtesy Amazon

These types of conversions, from a life of extremes and drugs, happen every day among peoplethat are not nearly as well known. In fact there are multiple nation wide ministries dedicated to inducing this sort of addiction intervention – you’ve probably seen the guys from Teen Challenge at your local Wal-Mart asking for donations. The question regarding these events for me though is whether or not accepting the drug of Jesus  (or insert religion here) is an improvement on an addiction to methamphetamine (or insert drug here).

Is it?

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Hi folks,  I know it’s been a while, strugglin with that bloggers block again…anywho. For anyone who missed it, myself and the rest of the Entrecard Moderators are sponsoring a contest to help clean up Entrecard. Details below.

If you are not a member already of EC, you should join, it is a great FREE way to get quality traffic to your blog!

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Cleaning up Entrecard Contest!

The purpose of this contest is to get those bad blogs lingering around with Terms of Service or Blog Quality Standards violations out of entrecard.

Before we get started as to how you will enter and how the winner will be chosen and how the winner(s) will be rewarded…

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So last night the wife and I went to go see The Watchmen. I had seen the previews before and I thought it looked pretty good, I didn’t realize that it was a nearly 3 hour long film, but there was a ton of hype about it. Since I am personally not familiar with the Comic Book series or the Graphic Novels I went in fresh, the only thing I knew about the film was that it was about superhero’s and the possibilities of a nuclear war.

I don’t want to give too much away,  but the story spans from the last half of the 20th Century, it covers a lot of political changes and things, and the gist is this: Richard Nixon is elected for his 3rd term right at the beginning of the film–after repealing the term limits on the Presidency.  Dr. Manhattan is a blue superhero that can see his own future and past all in relative time, teleport himself, other people, and objects to other locations (including Mars), and split himself into multiple copies of himself (so that he can simultaneously make love to his girlfriend-who is very very hot- and work on his energy producing mechanism that is meant to save the world). So he is working on a project to help create an energy source that will, in his mind, save mankind from nuclear war and from destroying the earth—of course there are twists that I can’t tell you about.

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Defending the God of the Bible was once a passion of mine, I studied apologia in order to defend my “True Faith”. Talking with young Atheists and dissenters was something I spent a lot of time doing at one point, though I could understand their arguments and reasons for disliking YHWH, I always felt in my heart that the only reason they didn’t “get it” was because they didn’t have the Holy Spirit in them to show them this truth or to help them “understand it” the way that I did.

In retrospect I find that this “Holy Spirit” that was silently giving me “Knowledge of God” and “evidence” was merely my own understanding and desire for the Gospel to be the Truth. My need for God was providing me with all the evidence I required at the time…which for me then was nothing more than a “fuzzy feeling” and a burning in the bosom (As the LDS Church conveniently puts it). That small self contained and self created feeling allowed me to ignore a magnitude of flaws in the character of YHWH…because I had a Personal relationship with Christ I was able to look past the bad parts and only see the good parts, justifying the evils of YHWH as justice and fatherly love… something my Christian counterparts are able to do still.

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Rather than doing the normal monthly Top Entrecard Droppers post, from now on my top droppers will be perpetually listed in the RSS Feed on the sidebar…just below my twitter widget.

This gives the benefit of the link-love for PageRank reasons, plus it rewards these droppers every day with links and hits…I think this is a better way to say thank you to you all. So …Thanks