Sunday Devotional - The Hero of the Story »
Posted By brettodactyl 3 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsSome of us tend to think that we are the heroes of our own life stories. As it turns out, the hero is actually God, and changing our perspectives to reflect that can lead to a better understanding of whatever we may be experiencing personally.
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brettodactyl3 months, 2 weeks ago
Heavenly Father,
As has become the tradition, I offer You this prayer as we begin a time of weekly devotion. Because this is a public forum, people are able to enter the discussions for the sole purpose of antagonizing your faithful followers. I would like to pray in particular for Neophile, who continually chooses to voice his opinion by sinking the devotionals, and for one who goes by the name of Antibrainwasher, who makes nothing but derogatory remarks about religion, about Your only begotten Son Jesus Christ, and about the Virgin Mary, who bore Your child. I ask that you lead these people, and any others who have such disdain for what You have offered us, to see the error in their ways and to come to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
I also ask that you help us Christians to remain strong in the faith and to be examples of the love of Christ, and to not enter into pointless arguments with those filled with anger.
In Jesus' name,
Amen
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Goppy3 months, 2 weeks ago
Thanks Brett.
I always enjoy reading your posts.
I especially liek the way you encapsulate the story ... and your encouragement to not enter into 'pointless arguments with those filled with anger'.
Seems liek, lately, I have been the target of a whole lot of anger. And the irony is, most of it seems to be coming from my fellow Christians!
It seems as though they become MOST angry when I point out that the essential teachings of Jesus were LOVE, COMPASSION, PEACE.
But when I say things liek this, Im called a Socialist!
The only thing I can figure is that, somewhere along the line, many of us Christians decided that our regional and family biases were more genuine than the teachins of Jesus. And, knowin in our heart what a tragedy this was ... many Christians sought to assuage the guilt of rejecting Jesus with the embrace of some other power ... well ... liek POLITICAL power.
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Goppy3 months, 2 weeks ago
Im not sure if you participate in the political threads on Popieller, brett ... but it is pretty ding dang rough.
I wonder if you could apply some of your gentle persuasion on our fellow Christian Conservatives ... for their seething self loathing at having rejected Jesus for political power seems to have given many a singularly hostile attitude.
Well ... for instance, there's this Christian Conservative guy named FSU92Grad ... he specializes in insults. The examples below are direct copies of a typical comment from this Christian Conservative.....
"So, in a nutshell, YOUR facts are crap, Jack...
And that's no lie, spin-master..."
"So, go crawl back in your hole..."
"AG, (that's a reference to OmegaGnosis, brett)
Did you just call someone a lemon ?
Man, that's racist...
Callin' someone a fruit like that...
I'm surprised "Dead-man-crappin'" didn't jump all over that... "
Omega thought this was reall funny and said:
"Oh snap."
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DropkickaLib3 months, 2 weeks ago
I always enjoy the bigotry you show in such a compassionate manner. How about avoiding crashing devotional folders and spending a little more time studying about the teachings of Jesus. You enjoy pontificating about them but appear to have little understanding.
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antibrainwasher3 months, 2 weeks ago
This crap where you pray in the jewish demi-gods name, and start your blogging with the steaming crap "heavenly father" is just insane.
F*ck your imaginary non-existant "heavenly father". No such crap exists. Why do you call your imaginary god a "father" anyway. Does he have a imaginary penis? Does he look like Charleston Heston, floating on a cloud?
And his "only begotton son" what a cauldren of stinking liquid crap.
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DropkickaLib3 months, 2 weeks ago
It's ok. I'll field the pointless arguments with pagans and libertines.
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Endoscopy3 months, 2 weeks ago
Thanks for this one. Several years ago I went through a horrible time. 'My wife and I had adopted 4 problem children. The problems were getting better as long as we were foster parents. When we adopted them things went from bad to worse. Three of the children ran away often. We ended up letting the state take back the three. Later we found out that this is normal for children like this. We could not understand why God let these things happen.
We now have adopted two children. One has bipolar and ADHD problems. It seems that God was looking into the future and preparing us for this child. God knows what is best and even when it seems that he has left us he is right there beside us.
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antibrainwasher3 months, 2 weeks ago
Great effort with your adoption effort. There are 200,000 children who age out of the foster care system in america with no parents, and a high presentage end up in prision or worse. They have no family.
America needs to support families who adopt. But unfortunately, we would rather spend hundreds of billions a year to subsidize military protection for Israel and Oil companies, and create millions of orphans or displaced children.
An atheist I know well raised over 5 million dollars through private contribution to place foster care children with adoptive parents....this year.
Endo, congrats on your wonderful adoption story, but it had nothing to do with any imaginary god. In fact, the christian right has ransacked family planning and social services, while giving the rich a tax cut.
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DropkickaLib3 months, 2 weeks ago
I appreciate the fact that you are drawing attention to the plight of foster children, which is largely ignored. Few of them amount to anything in life, being dumped out of the system at age 18, with no support network. That's mainly why I didn't neg you for gratuitously attacking relgion...once again.
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DropkickaLib3 months, 2 weeks ago
My sister tried to adopt a daughter abandoned by our cousin and had a similar lack of success. A man who worked at a children's home tried to adopt her brother but the boy had uncontrolled bouts with violence and had to go back to the home. He's heavily medicated now. Unfortunately, there appears to be an age past which it's difficult to help children who have suffered abuse during their formative early years. The system sets them up for failure and abandonment.
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cloud153 months, 1 week ago
That couldn't be any less true. Maybe there is a God but he/she/it just doesn't view us in the light we think he/she/it does. Maybe God created the universe and things just unfolded as they did. Maybe God doesn't watch us all day helping some while hurting other. See with critical thought God could very possibly exist.
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Melbatross73 months, 1 week ago
Give your head a shake people ! What makes your conjecture verifiable? If you read the Bible with the intent to learn, you would find that God placed our forefathers on this planet, laid down the rules for living, and let us have at it. Does God allow these horrible things to happen - yes. But, He told our forefathers that these things would happen when we reject Him and think we can reason what is best for ourselves. We reject the other prominent player as well - Satan. He is our resistance to prove our trust in God. When we trust God first the damage Satan does is minimal. When we yield to Satans' deception that we know better, the damage gets greater and greater until we are destroyed, all the while blaming God. Your posts and many others are proof positive of what the Bible states.
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texangelwings3 months, 2 weeks ago
One of my friends would say, that it is a good thing that a non-believer has the opportunity to hear the Lord's words. It is freedom to chose to believe or not! It has been the Lord who has been carrying me for what seems to be a long time. He is the light and the Hero who is the one that guides us from darkness!
Thank you for your prayer and your message, Brett!
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antibrainwasher3 months, 2 weeks ago
And I will take this opportunity to introduce rationality into your brainwashed world of angels and demons and curses and prayer and gods and demigods and heaven and hell and evil and all the other non-existant crap you grovel around and waste your lives and money persuing.
There is no god. No evidence whatsoever. No afterlife. No evidence what so ever. No halfjew/halfgod demi-god, no souls, spirts, no heaven, no hell, no angels, no devil, demons, evil, spirits, fairys, and on and on.
To believe in this crap is insane, willful insanity.
Religion is a disease, santified tribalism. Without religion, there is no evil.
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