Do you know what you believe?

What do you believe? Do you believe in God? In sin? In heaven? In Marxism? In the flying spaghetti monster?

What do you believe? Do you have anything in your life worth living for? Worth dying for? Is it something you share with others? Or is it more personal?

After 'dr life' revealed himself to be a faker, I actually sighed in relief (and then became peeved that he was so wretchedly nasty during his reveal). It horrified me to think that people professing Christianity could be so full of hate, and I was honestly glad to know he was faking the whole thing.

I never met a soul in real life who believed the garbage strewn about on the Machinery of Death blog and could not begin to imagine how someone following the teachings of Christ could adhere to such hatefulness.

My apologies to 'dr life,' because it turns out such people do exist. A small church has recently made the news here in the U.S. Their latest mission is to stage protests at funerals for our fallen soldiers. What are they protesting, do you ask? Is it the war in Iraq? The occupation of Afghanistan? No and no. It is the perceived support of homosexuality by the American military they are protesting. These people call themselves Christian, but there is absolutely no way Christ is leading them in this behavior. No way, no how, no where! I am angry and sickened by this, and I do know what I believe.

An article, in case you are curious: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9102443/

Why do people care?

This is a dinky little blog in a tiny little corner of cyberspace. Not too much of any real significance has been posted in this space that started off poking fun at the antics of the so-called 'dr life.' My real life even keeps me from posting with any kind of frequency.

So why does anyone care whether or not I believe in God (I do)? Why would anyone think they could sway me to another point of view with their own rather venomous rantings (btw, 'Penelope', if you're still out there, a humanist generally doesn't entitle her blog 'You Are All Morons' if she wants to be taken seriously)? Who cares if what I post is stupid?

I'm not bothered by insults thrown in cyberspace by people I don't know. Why would anyone else be bothered? I could be some 13 year old boy tapping away at my computer cackling to myself over every post and every insult. Do you really care what that kid thinks?

I'm just surprised that people are continuing to visit this blog and even take the time to comment at all. Hey, and if you do want to insult me, come on work your brain a little bit. Be proud of your insult, show some creativity, be original! If I get enough really good ones (four letter words are NOT tolerated and all such comments will be deleted, I'm just that way), maybe I'll create a hall of fame here on this blog.