If it should be that I grow frail and weak And pain should keep me from my sleep Then you must do what must be done For this, the last battle, can’t be won. You will be sad – I understand Don’t let your grief then stay your hand For this day, more than all the rest Your love and friendship stand the test. We’ve had so many happy years What is to come can hold no fears You’d not want me to suffer, so When the time comes, please let me go.

Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

By George Conger, Religious Intelligence US Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori has denounced as a “heresy” the proposition that individual believers can find salvation through Jesus Christ. The grace of God is a gift to the community of believers, not for the individual believer, Bishop Jefferts Schori said in her opening statement to the 76th US General Convention, meeting in Anaheim, California from July 7-17.

Alexandria, VA   Part 1 is here .  What follows is the second half of the lecture originally delivered in Charlottesville, VA, in 2007. ______________________________________ Tocqueville, as ever, got it right.  In the 1830s, he observed that “the spirit of liberty and the spirit of religion are mutually reinforcing.”  In contrast to Europe, where religion seemed to be the opposite of liberty, religion in America – and especially disestablishment as a general rule – prevented any Church

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Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori at the 76th General Convention in Anaheim, California. Read it all in The Church of England Newspaper ’s Religious Intelligence section. US Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori has denounced as a “heresy” the proposition that individual believers can find salvation through Jesus Christ. The grace of God is a gift to the community of believers, not for the individual believer, Bishop Jefferts Schori said in her opening statement to the 76th US General Convention, meeting in Anaheim, California from July 7 to 17.

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Dont believe in God? Check your state constituion preamble here. – failedexperiment.com 07/09/2009 Yeah. I posted this to pisss off atheists. Alabama 1901, Preamble. We the people of the State of Alabama, invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain and establish the following Constitution Alaska 1956, Preamble. We, the people of Alaska, grateful to God and to those who founded our nation and pioneered this great land .. Arizona 1911, Preamble.

Mark Wadsworth , like other bloggers, has a down on certain things, in his case, on false charities and rewriting history. I too have a down on certain things and one of those is false, modern, western social constructs – beatups in other words. And the Ayer’s Rock post also shows that I’m down on the rewriting of history to suit a modern construct. That’s what this post is all about and there’s a lot of me personally in the second half.