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yes. the issue of salvation is the defining element of Christianity... is its foundation, deriving power from peoples' insecurity. it reduces people to dependent children calling out to mommy, all alone in the night. we are urged/ manipulated into seeking forgiveness and self worth through blind...

Jesus was not God, and never claimed to be. he was "merely" an agent of God, showing us that we are of the divine. Jesus did not establish Christianity... the Church did, skewing his teaching. He called himself the Son of Man, not the Son of God. He certainly knew he was not God, but only spoke...

evil does exist, but relative to good. each defines the other. good and evil-- as manifestations of consciousness energy-- are very real forces that we can feel intuitively and see the effects of in action. good and evil as value judgments are merely relative distinctions, but good and evil as...

care to elaborate? is this a pseudo-clever reference to the Matrix line: There is no spoon"? :P

the fundamental fault lies in our globally predominant ego-centric attitude that the universe exists to serve Mankind. -an excerpt from Ishmael: "You know that, as we sit here, we are in no sense defying the law of gravity. Unsupported objects fall toward the center of the earth, and the...

analogy: religion is a puzzle that depicts a particular picture of reality. organized religion consists of pieces to a singular picture. disorganized religion consists of pieces from multiple puzzles to form another larger puzzle. foundationism seeks to merge various pieces of/ from these puzzles.

Re:The anti-Christmas Wil left Trek because-- at the time-- he wanted to pursue a movie career, and thought he had a good chance to do so. i think the way he was written out of the series was a brilliant and logical evolution of the character. he got a lot of flak for his role as Wesley...

Re:The anti-Christmas yes, he was. shameless plug: www.wilwheaton.net

the difference between a Foundationist and a Unitarian Universalist is that the former seeks to know, while the latter accepts the not knowing. one is questing while the other is resting.

i think there is a fine semantic distinction between soul and spirit: the former being conscience; the latter, our spiritual essence.

I agree with Wil Wheaton: I don't support this war. I believe that Mr. Bush's justifications for it are based on lies. I believe that he has lied to the American people, and to the world. I believe that there is a small group of people within Mr. Bush's administration who have wanted to...

A Foundationist is an agnostic, but an agnostic is not necessarily a Foundationist. and by "agnostic" i mean someone who does not presume or declare absolute religious "truths". someone concerned more with the search for answers than the finding of them, because they realize that truth is relative.

one of the definitions of a church is: "The clerical profession; clergy; congregation". it is in this sense that i intended the word to be used. it is not a strictly Christian reference. While the Foundationist Church may be orgnized-- an organization, it in no way promotes an organized...