I’d like to thank God, my Dad, and my Psychology teacher Mrs. James for inspiring this.

“There is a well established principle in the social sciences which states that whenever the cooperation of two people is enlisted towards the completion of some task that is of equivalent importance to both (and which cannot be successfully completed except through the close cooperative enterprise of the two people), those two people will come to like each other, they will become friends, and their values, attitudes, goals, etc., will tend to become increasingly similar. This is known as the principle of the superordinate goal.”

An Atheist was on Bill O’Reilly, tonight, and he was a seemingly nice guy, but Bill and he had their disagreements and what not. He was very respectable, but a good point was brought up before I left to go to Olivia’s house. O’Reilly brought up the fact that mass muderers like Stalin, Hitler, etc. were all undoubtedly Atheists, which is true and a valid point. The guy on his show simply came back with the fact that Atheism is not the reason why they killed people.

This is where some may get offended, but I was thinking, “They were Godless! There was no reason not to channel their anger into people they hated! There was absoloutely no valid reason to respect them as individuals in their minds, because in their minds, all of these people were the cause to their problems. They were the reason why their lives were not as prosperous as they could have been.”

Now, God doesn’t always exactly cure people of the willingness to sin, but he does do one thing if you have faith! He gives you direction. When there is no direction to go in life, you can always take one which is to try to sin less! It is a great goal, and part of it is to spread the word. This word. It will bring you nothing, but happiness, even if it takes personal sacrifice.

Spreading the word is where other people become involved. And this is where the superordinate goal comes in. All people should come together and listen to the real message of peace sent by God! And I say this not as my God, but your God, our God. Whomever/whatever that may be regardless of the fact that we sometimes call it God, or Allah.

Some say “give peace a chance,” but anyone who says that as the stereotypical liberal hippy must understand that there is a lot more to that statement than it sounds. If you are a stereotypical, liberal, conservative-opposing, peace lecturing hippy, then look at your feelings towards someone like George Bush, or maybe some other more extreme person like Ann Coulter! I bet your feelings do a great job of resembling your teachings about peace! Same goes for any red-blood, true blue conservative American. Are you doing a good job of spreading Jesus’ real message of peace? Or are you maybe to centered on the fact that people should suffer lawful consequences of not following it? Sure… this and that maybe right according to religion, but since when has force worked to get people to cooperate?

Our only answer is to accept God’s goal that he has set for us; to work together for a common goal that none of us can achieve without the others’ effort: act more like Jesus. If you play your part in this goal by making your life a work in progress by eliminating hate, lust, and greed, your life will be so much happier!

If you’d like to know anymore about it, read the Bible! Or maybe there’s something else written in different words that can tell you the same thing! Either way, God sent the message here in multiple ways to be read! Find the one that you can best understand!

This being said, regardless of where you sit on the political spectrum and what you think is the right thing to do, whether it be a civil freedom or an economic freedom, our Government should not legislate upon that. Our Government should legislate on that 1) individual rights must be conserved and 2) if some person’s decisions clash with the first principle, the Government shall act accordingly to protect the first principle.

We went to Church this morning and there was a great message that I wish more Churches would focus on more often… especially in the “Bible Belt” area.

It wasn’t too centered around Easter. It was a start to a new series they’re going to be doing over the next month or two about “breaking free” from the “chains”. Today’s sermon was all about hypocrisy and how much of hypocrites Christians can be. There was a pretty intense Ghandi quote that George, my mom’s Church’s pastor, read us. He said, “I like your Christ, but I do not like your Christians.”

I loved to hear that this message was being preached because I was watching things that really hurt me to see yesterday. I was watching out of curiosity these little video segments from Michael Moore’s An Awful Truth. First of all, yes it was Michael Moore, and completely twisted. He is a very mislead man. But, the thing that hurt me to see was the video footage of these “Christians” in Kansas and other states saying “God Hates Fags” and “Burn in Hell Fags”. I don’t really understand how we’re getting a message out as the body of Christ that Christ is loving. We’re supposed to teach that God loves everyone regardless of what they do.

Am I trying to say that we should let gay people start having sex on the streets? Not at all, but c’mon people! We were just told in Church today to be wise about how we witness to people. It was just really good to hear a Church talk about it. So, think about it for today! I love you all!

And to any homosexual readers, on behalf of Christ, I personally welcome you into the Church to hear his message anytime!

Bill, I thought you’d like this.

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, The Almighty. He asks one of his new students to stand and …..

Prof: So, you believe in God?

Student: Absolutely, sir.

Prof: Is God good?

Student: Sure.

Prof: Is God all-powerful?

Student: Yes.

Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn’t. How is this God good then? Hmm?

(Student is silent.)

Prof: You can’t answer, can you? Let’s start again, young fellow! Is God good?

Student: Yes.

Prof: Is Satan good?

Student: No.

Prof: Where does Satan come from?

Student: From… God…

Prof: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?

Student: Yes.

Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it? And God did make everything. Correct?

Student: Yes.

Prof: So who created evil?

(Student does not answer.)

Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?

Student: Yes, sir.

Prof: So, who created them?

(Student has no answer.)

Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son… Have you ever seen God?

Student: No, sir.

Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?

Student: No, sir.

Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?

Student: No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.

Prof: Yet you still believe in Him?

Student: Yes.

Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?

Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.

Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has.

Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?

Prof: Yes.

Student: And is there such a thing as cold?

Prof: Yes.

Student: No sir. There isn’t.

(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events.)

Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold.

Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.

(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre.)

Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?

Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?

Student: You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light…. But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and it’s called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?

Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?

Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.

Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?

Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one.

To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it.

Now tell me, Professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?

Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.

Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?

(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.)

Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?

(The class is in uproar.)

Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?

(The class breaks out into laughter.)

Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir.

With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?

(The room is silent. The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable.)

Prof: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.

Student: That is it sir… The link between man & god is FAITH. That is all that keeps things moving & alive