Tag Archives: faith

The Boss’s Ten Commandments

Can you really respect a God that dished out the Ten Commandments? Would you respect a boss who laid down such commandments? How about if the leader of your country acted like God.
So you got a new job, it was the only job available so you really had no choice and you boss is laying [...]

Satan’s Influence, a dialogue

Bible Believer:if Satan wrote the Bible, why is there so much good in it?
Thomas: Is Satan stupid?
BB: No! He is very smart. That is how he is able to lure us to do things we shouldn’t.
Thomas: What is his mission?
BB: To get us to do bad things.
Thomas: Like destroying God’s creation?
BB: Yes.
Thomas: Are we part [...]

What is Right

The 12th century monk, St. Bernard, carried his piety to an exhausting asceticism; he fasted so much that his superior had to command him to eat; and for thirty-eight years he lived in one cramped cell, with a bed of straw and no seat but a cut in the wall. All the comforts and goods [...]

Leap of Faith

Quorto- You say God gave us our mind so, clearly, you believe in God.
Thomas- If that is your conclusion, it should, at the least, not be clear.
Quorto- You don’t believe in God?
Thomas- I will give you the simplest, most direct answer I can. I do not believe in God as depicted in the Old Testament, [...]

Do you believe in God?

Do I believe in God?
I don’t believe in the God in whose name women were persecuted and killed as witches in Salem.
I don’t believe in the God in whose name men and boys marched to war in the Crusades.
I don’t believe in the God in whose name Protestants and Catholics killed each other in Northern [...]