Perspectives

If you are looking for a dogmatic definition of God, you will not find it here. You, the reader, are responsible for making sense of God for yourself. What I provide below is the way I, personally, intercept God through reason. We are necessarily limited by our current understanding of the universe, its origin, its underlying structure, and the rules governing it. I acknowledge, up front, that my understanding of God will change as humanity’s knowledge expands. This acknowledgement is a fundamental principle of Reasoned Spirituality. 

Easter always makes me think about religion and Jesus and Christianity.  I have a fascination with it all anyway from a historical point of view but I wonder sometimes if I'm missing something more.  I was born into a Christian family, went to Sunday School and church through my college years, but after that, I began to question what I was hearing and what I was seeing, some hypocrisy that bothered me, things that just didn't "ring true." I felt torn between my heart and my mind. I tried a couple of different churches and even went back to church many years later after a long time of considering myself "spiritual but not religious." The fact is I'm just not a Christian in the generally used meaning of the word in terms of salvation and heaven and hell, etc.  No matter how much I may have wanted to fit in with the Christian community, I just have not been able to do it. Yet, I'm not quite ready to give up on Easter and on Jesus and yeah, you can throw Christmas in there, too.

He was supposed to have left this world 14 years ago. He was the runt, born missing a leg. His owner took him to the vet and left him to be euthanized. Instead, our niece rescued him, and he came to live with us. His name was Scooter.

As a Deist and member of several Deists sites and communities, I think Rich Deem's "Why Deism Fails as a Philosophical Paradigm of the Universe" misrepresents Deism. You can read the original article at the "God and Science" website (http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/deism.html).

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain. –Author unknown.

Life does not stand still. Life comes at us at a speed of its own choosing. It seems to me that the speed increases with every year, so in the autumn of my years, life moves at a blistering pace. But no matter what the tempo, we need to deal with everything that gets thrown at us.

The year was 1948. The Fiske Family moved from the city of Lynn, Massachusetts into their new home five miles north-northeast of the city, into one of the last of the primordial deep woods in the region. The house was nestled amongst tall pines and oaks on a terraced hillside, the last to be built on the left-hand side of the road at that time.