I was raised a Godless heathen. OK, OK, I’m being dramatic for effect, but I think it would be accurate to say that I was brought up in a fairly irreligious household. I am technically a Christian, and my grandparents were all quite religious Protestants, but my parents live pretty secular lives. Although they were [...]
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Orgasms During Birth – Was God Kidding?
I have watched a birth in real life and many on PBS. If dropping a crane on someone’s noggin hurts, then so does giving birth. Women explain it as excreting a watermelon. The shouts, yells and shrieks that women let out make a drunken sailor sound like Desmond Tutu. So now you’re telling me giving [...]
Seriously! Can we influence those who hate?
Question: We live in a world where hate exist? We have inside of us so we know what it looks and feels like, somewhat. Can we therefore meet it, look at it in the eye, and transform it to goodness? Yes or No? Explain
