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• Boston Parking Lot to Discount ‘Green’ Vehicles, Penalize ‘Gas Guzzlers’

  April 27, 2012 at 11:58am

  So if I take a big vehicle in order to carpool with a big group of people, I pay more than the wealthy dude pulling in solo in his expensive vehicle?

• ‘Gay Christian? Yes!’: Movement Sparks Debate Among Believers

  April 6, 2012 at 12:14am

  In reply to txjb.

  Is there such a thing as a Christian who smokes? A Christian who gossips? A Christian who is a glutton? A Christian who is materialistic? A Christian who has not realized and rejected any given sin? To be a Christian is to have achieved full sanctification and sinlessness? God by His grace brings each person on a journey toward wholeness in Him in His own time and way, sometimes with immediate conviction and repentance, sometimes after years of tilling the soil with healing and growing faith. With what other sin do we say, “First clean up your act, THEN you can have some of God’s grace.” Jesus brought grace, then truth. Think of the Samaritan woman at the well, or the woman who was being stoned by hypocrites. He brought grace and love, followed by, “Go, and sin no more.”

• ‘Gay Christian? Yes!’: Movement Sparks Debate Among Believers

  April 6, 2012 at 12:07am

  … just as someone with a whole lifestyle of the sin of materialism may not become aware of the tentacles it has upon them. And yet, with certain sins, some Christians say, “First clean up THAT, THEN you may come to Jesus’ grace.” Grace and truth out of order.

• ‘Gay Christian? Yes!’: Movement Sparks Debate Among Believers

  April 6, 2012 at 12:04am

  This is something I’ve thought a lot about. Christians who are gay? Yes. Is homosexual behavior sinful? Yes.
  When people understand and accept for themselves the message of salvation and relationship with God through Jesus, they enter a long journey of sanctification, shedding the old man and being renewed in their spirits, which is not complete until the complete renewal of Heaven. Sometimes God immediately brings awareness of certain sins and we are enabled to turn the other way as soon as we decide to follow. Other things in our hearts and lives He may not put His loving finger of conviction upon until much later. Perhaps there is healing he needs to accomplish in us before we can come to that point, or faith and relationship with Him that must be built before we’re ready to let go and follow him out of bondage and into His ways. Thirty years after conversion, He will still lovingly be showing you corners of your heart that you didn’t even realize you had! All in His perfect timing.
  But Christians, who have no way of knowing God’s perfect timing and work in someone’s heart and life, like to “rank” sins, and often demand that people clean up certain sins BEFORE they can come to Jesus. Jesus always extended grace, THEN brought truth– both always present and uncompromised, but the order is important! People in a gay lifestyle may take years of journeying in faith before God has prepared their hearts enough to turn from a lifestyle they accept as their very identit

• Google Reveals Design for Virtual Reality Glasses — Would You Wear Them?

  April 4, 2012 at 7:29pm

  There is such a thing as too much technology, and I believe we’re there.

• ‘Bring Your Kids!’: Atheist Performer Drops 75+ F-Bombs On Stage at ‘Reason Rally’ (WARNING: EXPLICIT VIDEO)

  March 25, 2012 at 2:47pm

  Anytime you’re dropping the same imprecise adjective/verb at a rate of nearly once every 15 seconds, you are unimaginative at best, and completely ignorant at worst.

• Bill Maher: The Left and the Right Need to ‘Stop Making Each Other Apologize For Everything’

  March 24, 2012 at 10:56pm

  What?! Could it be that I kinda-sorta-at-least-in-theory agree with Bill Maher?! Wow.
  (Now do I believe that the left could abide by such a thing? Well, no. Too much of a knee-jerk reaction at this point. But it’s a nice thought.)

• Geraldo Rivera Doubles Down: ‘Everyone That Ever Stuck Up a Convenience Store’ Wears Hoodies

  March 24, 2012 at 12:27pm

  He has a point, it’s just that it was made with very poor timing. Things are hot with this situation, not in the more thoughtful, objective reflection stage.
  The often-run, very effective commercials for a major home security service (Brinks, I think it is) show the “bad guy” (caucasian, by the way) walking along the street pulling up his black hoodie when he goes to bust down the door and invade the home. Why would the advertising team choose that particular article of clothing to designate the “bad guy” for viewers? Because, just like the color black, it has a well-known perceived connection with “bad guy”.
  Just like any mention of the fact that perhaps women should exercise a little wise discretion and not go to drunken parties dressed like porn stars, though, even after thoroughly, unequivocally condemning her assailant, people will never stop calling it “blaming the victim.”
  People, do what you can to push back the sins of the world and human nature, but you have to deal wisely with reality as it is, too!

• Nuns Protest ‘Porno Palace’ Strip Club Launching Next to Their Convent

  March 23, 2012 at 7:50am

  They’re right to work with other concerned community members to prevent the opening of the club in their community. If the club prevails and opens, however, what a great location they have for ministry. They can begin with watching for patrons and praying for each one, then let prayer and brainstorming lead them into other possibilities for using their love and location to push back the darkness in their community and in the lives of the club patrons.

• ‘Communism Doesn’t Work’: Chilling Video Warning To America From East German Survivor

  March 17, 2012 at 11:32pm

  Hearing her speak of the unavailability of goods brought back memories of my visit to East Berlin in the summer of 1989, just months before the Wall came down. I’ll never forget the strong impression made simply in crossing over to East Berlin from the capitalist island that was West Berlin: It was as if traveling back in time and as if someone had switched the film in the reel from color to black and white; everything seemed literally gray and gloomy. No more Mercedes and other modern car models, just tin-can-looking Trabants. Crabby, depressed-looking people. And the market. Wow. I went to browse and perhaps pick up a souvenir of some sort, but there was nothing to buy. I’ve never seen shops and stalls so very bland and gray and sparse.