Amen!

                
John 1:3-4
      3 πάντα  δι’  αὐτοῦ  ἐγένετο,  καὶ  χωρὶς  αὐτοῦ  ἐγένετο  οὐδὲ  ἕν  ὃ  γέγονεν.  

4 ἐν  αὐτῷ ζωὴ  ἦν,  καὶ  ἡ  ζωὴ  ἦν  τὸ  φῶς  τῶν  ἀνθρώπων.

3. Through him, all things were made, and without him, not a thing came into being.

4. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 

"...for if there is to be talk of God in a sense meaningful to men, there must also be at this point talk of the world, as the sphere in which men find themselves." 

-Rudolf Bultmann 

QUOTE OF THE WEEK 

(Translation by yours truly) 

New Atheism and Its Entailments

Some of you may know, or have suspected, that I am not an atheist.  I am a Christian. As a Christian, I have struggled with notions, and questions of God, justice, and other similar things. As a student, I have also been challenged regarding interpretations of Christian texts that I have just assumed to be correct. Imperialistic, and capitalistic readings have been central to my understanding of the Bible for most of my life; that, however, has changed. Oddly enough, there are imperial interpretations of religious phenomena with the "New Atheist". The article below is brilliant. It seems as though the left is removing itself from new atheism, and is taking a more central approach to religion. The author really puts the American terrorist from North Carolina into context. It seems as though violence is only justifiable with fundamentalism, both religious and secular. Give it a read!!!


https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/12/new-atheism-old-empire/

My Prayer Borrowed from Luke

 Ὁ Θεός,  εὐχαριστῶ  σοι  ὅτι  οὐκ  εἰμὶ  ὥσπερ  οἱ  λοιποὶ  τῶν  ἀνθρώπων,  ἅρπαγες,  ἄδικοι,  μοιχοί,  ἢ καὶ  ὡς  οὗτος  ὁ  τελώνης·  12 νηστεύω  δὶς  τοῦ  σαββάτου,  ἀποδεκατῶ*  πάντα  ὅσα  κτῶμαι.

"God, I thank you, for I am not as the other men, swindlers, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax collector; I fast twice a week, I tithe all things, as much as I get."
Amen.
A quick translation, and short prayer to inspire my reader(s).

Tax Breaks for the Rich

GOP tax breaks will benefit the likes of Conrad Hilton. This degenerate has spoken volumes about the (watch-out! Here it comes!) income inequality from which this county suffers. Read the Washington Post article, and think of the disconnect he has with most of society. Of course, not all rich are like this, but entitlement isn't for the "lazy" that "live it large" off of welfare, or those "benefit-grabbing illegals"; it's a disease that makes all levels of society reek of rotting insatiable flesh.