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Religion Headlines Skew 70% believe there are other ways to get to Heaven

Glenn — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:46:57 +0000

Well, I had only read the headlines of those articles but just now saw a thoughtful well documented article that actually listed the question asked.
Of the following two statements which one better fits your beliefs?
A “My religion is the one, true faith leading to eternal life” or B “many religions can lead to eternal life.”
The article at Scripps News gives a pretty good summary of why this question cannot be used to judge whether Evangelical or other Christian, Muslim and Jewish believers have abandoned basic principles of their faith. Basically the summary comes down to the definition of “Religion”.
If you define Religion as “a set of beliefs a person practices in line with sacred texts and tradition” or if you define Religions as referring to the overall largest Religions including “Christianity, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Taoist, Wiccan, Morman and Atheist” or if you defined the work Religion in the context of the question as only referring to your Religions denominations or sects so “Baptist, Catholic, Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Prebysterian, United Methodist, Non Denominational Christian, Episcopal and such”
The definition of Religion therefore interprets the question and colors the responses both the person who believes there are many ways to heave such as Taoist, and Buddhist and the Christian who believes that there are multiple Denominations that also hold true to the core of Christianity would say B especially if they didn’t consider Muslim, Jewish Wiccan and Taoist as inside their realm of knowledge or experience.
So bottom line is the survey skews the responses by asking an inprecise question and formulating a broad corrleation of Evangelicals abandoning the truths of John 14:5-7
Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we >> know the way?” 6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. >> No one comes to the Father except through me. 7If you really knew me, you >> would know[a >> ] >> > my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” >
So now you know. . .

Winnie the Pooh to Shape US Security in the Obama Presidency!

Glenn — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:12:37 +0000

. . . (From the article)
Richard Danzig, who served as Navy Secretary under President Clinton and is tipped to become National Security Adviser in an Obama White House, told a major foreign policy conference in Washington that the future of US strategy in the war on terrorism should follow a lesson from the pages of Winnie the Pooh, which can be shortened to: if it is causing you too much pain, try something else.
Mr Danzig told the Centre for New American Security: â€œWinnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.â€
He spelt out how American troops, spies and anti-terrorist officials could learn key lessons by understanding the desire of terrorists to emulate superheroes like Luke Skywalker, and the lust for violence of violent football fans.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2139573/Barack-Obama-aide-Why-Winnie-the-Pooh-should-shape-US-foreign-policy.html

Why Conservatives Say They Are Happier Than Liberals - . . .

Mon, 05 May 2008 19:43:33 +0000

Happiness evidently is in the eye of the beholder, it just so happens Conservative tendencies to attend Church and be married result in a personal feeling of optimism and happiness. . . Don’t forget Conservatives give more to charitable groups too.

I Love Snow!

Glenn — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:18:25 +0000

Well this is our first snow of the year! I’ve asked my wife to take pictures, but hopefully it will still be around when I get off. I’ll get photos up then, but until then you can watch something close to what I’m seeing live yeah removed cause it’s not snowing now! ha ha . . .

This is the live web-cam of our Student Center Construction on campus

. We are just beginning dirt and preparation but they plan to open the facility in the Fall of 2009. . .
Until then let it snow let it snow let it snow!

Updated Snow Picture from earlier in the day! (for my Northern sugar doubters! )

Glenn

Design Bliss and WPDesigner Win a Free Theme Club Membership!

Glenn — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:48:15 +0000

Hello! Well some of you may have noticed but probably not, since I haven’t said anything about it, but I really digg WPdesigner.com and I have been following his new Theme Club and had decided I really would like to join the club.
In fact I have had fun reading his Critiques and fun musings on themes and the Wordpress community as well as using his themes on several of my blogs at one time or another! Well he recently ran a promotion and has been allowing other sites to use promotional give aways to the new Theme Club which is already outrageously inexpensive at $5 annually. But I signed up for one of these contests at www.designbliss.com incidentally an excellent design blog with great icons, graphics and commentary by Brian Pate. I hadn’t subscribed to the site before, but after reading that they were an affiliate and were giving away Theme Club memberships, I had to check it out!
I am very happy to have won a membership in the contest and want to thank Small Potatoes and especially Brian Pate, for hosting and giving this one to me! I’ve already downloaded and applied one of the themes to this site and will be making some updates but was very thrilled to see that nearly all of my code and sidebar information was handled seamlessly in the new Wordpress Customized Widgit bar feature!
That just about sums it up, but I’d encourage anyone to sign up for Small Potatoes Theme Club at wpdesigner.com and to check out Brian’s great site at www.designbliss.com!
Glenn