Top products from r/Sidehugs

[M] I'm guessing that comment should have had an "[M]" tag?

To summarize on my beliefs, and I will provide links to blogs I have written which delve deeper where applicable:

• I no longer believe in eternal hell. That was actually the first area I started to research in detail - my story is that I was in a place where I knew something was very wrong with the culture I had grown up in, and I decided that I needed to explore the thoughts of theologians which were somehow outside of that culture or no longer part of it. I didn't know how to do that, but managed to stumble upon the name: Brian McLaren, and ended up reading "A New Kind of Christianity". That book introduced me to a lot of thoughts I'd never dared think before, and it was frightening in a way. But one of those thoughts was that hell is not the last word, and somehow I just knew that had to be right. So that's where I started - because if that one was right, then I didn't have to be afraid about thinking anything else.
  
  
• I no longer describe the Bible as "inerrant" - I choose instead the label "infallible". The way I think of the Bible is like a scatter plot. If you see enough of the dots, you can tell where they are leading. But if you take only a few of the dots, you will most likely draw the line in a way that is inaccurate. Additionally, if you don't pay attention to the timing of the dots and how they coalesced over time, you might draw the line going in the wrong direction. I write more about my attitude towards the Bible here, here, and here (and I have some unpublished writings on the subject for a series I'm working on...but it's a really big endeavor so it might take a while before I publish).
  
  
• This one is hard to explain and I can't easily point to a link that explains it, but I have become what you might call a perennialist (see the Wikipedia article on the Perennial Philosophy) - to summarize, I've seen common threads amongst many religions. Thus, I no longer assume that there is one "right" religion and all the others are wrong - I no longer think that one religion has the monopoly on truth. This ties in to my last point, but I set up a collection of quotes demonstrating how this works on my blog here.
  
  
• I think of God now in panentheistic terms. I started thinking that way before I knew the word for it, and when I found the word I thought "oh, that's what it's called". I write more about what that means here, and here. But one of the pivotal moments for my own understanding of panentheism was when I discovered the "Z-Theory" by David Hayward - he has a couple great summaries of this here and here, but if you go here you'll see he has a lot more writings on the subject.
  
  I hope you discover, as I did, that there is great joy in the search - the point of seeking is not to find a destination where you stop the journey, but to find joy in the journeying itself. ;)

Ask and ye shall receive

John 3:16 MSG - For God so loved the world... whoah like all you need is love man, right on

I believe that the only inspired word of God is Rappin' With Jesus, the Ebonics Bible. All others be downright heretical, yo.

If you need a way to distinguish between gay denominations and the Southern Baptist Convention, here's something your church should invest in. You can buy a couple for your church from amazon . If you give them to your ushers, then the maximum coverage can be accomplished.

Let me make that easy for you.

Time to put your faith in Jesus Potter.

No. True Christians ^^TM stick to the Catechism

[m] Well, this other book exists, so sometimes it's hard to tell.

http://www.amazon.com/Control-Christian-Marriages-Priesthood-Children/dp/1425992609/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

The Klingon Language Version, of course. If you even have to ask, then Mok'Ta vor, kash a'VEH!

For real, my parents got me a "manga Bible" several years ago when I started watching anime. I... didn't read it. It's in a cupboard somewhere.

We did

May I suggest the Queen James Bible for all your personal agenda needs

It's literally this watch. I've had it for more than a decade. I'd buy another, too. But it's not classy.

Nah, fuck that. Read this instead.

Isn't the infallibility of my NIV teen study bible enough? Sometimes I get feelings when I read it, your 2000 year old tradition is just dead rituals, man, you don't get feelings so it doesn't count. Do you know what Jesus said about traditions anyways?

If sidehugging is dirty, what kind of hugging should I be switching to? Or is this a "dirty" like Jesus With Dirty Feet?

[m] what thread does this reference.

BRO do you even "Eugenics and Other Evils" by G.K. "Big BOSS" Chesterton ...just ignore the Calvinist-bashing. Oh Chesterton, I suppose we must all have our faults.