Growing up possessed by Christian Ideology, I found it easy to believe that people who disagreed with my position did so because they liked being wrong. I am trying to change my approach. I try to begin my analysis by seeking to understand how someone like me might be convinced of the imperative of activism, and find the smallest error that might lead someone like me astray. I’m not sure that gender and sexual orientation activists will appreciate my civil approach, but I am sure I want to extend to them the courtesies I would appreciate from others.

I think it is possible to make a meaningful differentiation between the positive motivation when you pursue a goal you expect to reach and when you pursue a meaningful goal that you may never reach. I analyze these two motivations and connect them to the motivation of fear.

If the snake is the incarnation of a dragon which the walls of the garden cannot keep out, what’s a hero to do? A hero can feel helpless when his fair maiden is confronting a snake of addiction or worthlessness. Maybe this can help him find an effective strategy.

Could the organizing of Christianity been motivated as an attack on the central message of the Christ. I’m not sure I like my conclusions.

A young man stumbles on the difference between descriptive identity and the ambition to identity.

This set of podcasts follows on from “Evidence Needed”. Understanding how the spirit of the Christ might be under attack requires drawing some conclusions about whether Satan has a conscious existence. Which requires some clarification of my conclusions about the nature of God’s existence.

My continuing conversation with a Catholic friend. This isn’t meant as an argument or criticism of the spiritual construct of the Eucharist. I’m just trying to describe my puzzlement in a lighthearted manner. I prepared it in response to a video my friend sent me. Feel free to join our discussion by weighing in at [email protected]

This set of podcasts follows on from “Evidence Needed”. Understanding how the spirit of the Christ might be under attack requires drawing some conclusions about whether Satan has a conscious existence. Which requires some clarification of my conclusions about the nature of God’s existence.

Doesn’t sound very inspiring but maybe it’s a useful strategy to avoid the pitfalls of isolation and resentment.

Join me as I try to figure out why all the attention given to bullying seems to have only made the problem worse.