If you've ever taken a philosophy class in college, you know that there are no answers to your questions, no absolute truth to be found, Just ideas. Some go the route of universalism to solve their philosophical debates. "Every "truth" is the same and we can all thank god/godess that we are ok with it." In my opinion if you stand for everything, you stand for nothing.
Why is it that those who have searched for truth and found it are looked down upon as being lazy, or naive? If you go on some fruitless search your whole life, somehow many people see it as the only respectable solution (or lack thereof). It makes no sense to me. If one wanders in an apple orchard because they are hungry, smells every apple but doesn't eat any, and starves in a feeble attempt to find the best tasting one, they are insane (lifelong agnosticism). But one is labelled equally insane and even naive for eating an apple and solving their dilemma (form me Christianity). Why is it noble to be unhappy? Is that how we were meant to live? Ignorance is bliss, but bliss doesn't mean ignorance. Look at whats "in style" go to any movie theatre or barnes and noble. look at the kids outside. Looking sickly, skinny, and moping around with tight torn clothes is cool. Im not sure what its like in other parts of the country that aren't California, but that's pretty big here. The sad thing is these kids go home to their parents. They don't need jobs but they want to look like they just woke from a coma in a gutter outside a barbazon modeling agency. It's like Jack Skellington and Cindi Lauper had a bunch of babies that spread like rabbits throughout california. EAT SOMETHING!!!
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Great writing, Trav. Psalm 12:8 says, "The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men." Ever been in trouble in school and been sent to the principle's office? It's not quite as bad when you're sent with a friend who's also in trouble. People have rejected God and have chosen evil -- they've chosen to follow the every desire of their flesh. When they look around and see others flaunting their own sin, they don't feel alone -- and so they validate each other; they pat each other on the back and say, "You're cool." Then they look at the Christian who says, "Only One Way, baby," and they demonize and belittle him with such terms as naive, narrow-minded, andintolerant." But remember what Jesus said in Matthew 7:13-14: "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is teh road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to live, and only a few find it." I guess we are narrow... but if that leads to life, I'll take it.
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