Beer

has anyone ever tried beer?
i wonder how beer was invented and how it became popular. i wonder this because everyone's first beer is terrible. you feel like what you are drinking is potable only in the academic sense that your body doesnt reject it immediately, but your taste buds feel that maybe this isnt such a good idea. But you finish it anyways.......and, whats this? im feeling good, little loose, little relaxed. just enough to make you come back for another at some latter point in time. pretty soon you like the taste. interesting. i wonder though if this was the process that the first brew masters went throught. i imagine the first beer tasted awful. but that didnt stop them, no sir they were buzzin i presume. speculation

I do think that beer is a gift from God. along with pizza, ice cream, or any food or drink you enjoy. but as with pizza and ice cream, beer must be enjoyed in moderation, or it can become the object of an unhealthy obsession with unhealthly consequences (obeisity, heart disease, drunkeness resulting in wrong action). I motion that for churches that are teaching that to consume beer is an abomination unto God, that they also will speak in kind to fatty and sugary foods which right now account for more death and loss of enjoyment in life than alchohol by far. So we need to consider what we do with our bodies beyond if we are addicted to drugs or not, what else are we addicted to that we wont give up and what is it doing to our bodies? it doesnt harm anyone else if I eat poorly, some may object, but alcholol can. Well if you dont want to go for a walk with your spouse b/c you might keel over then you are harming that relationship, or if you feel like crap all day b/c your body is under such stress just to pump blood through your viens, then you have chosen to limit the gift of life God has given you. Am I just justifying the fact that I like beer? Yes, and No. Yes b/c i do. NO, b/c i want to elucidate the irrational fear of beer in fundamental church circles, that doesnt prohibit other equally as destructive habits.

Peace, I'll drink to that.

I have a new book idea

This is my new book idea.
It's going to be a children's novel.

Title: Little Billy's Ontological Safari: With Thomas the Fire Engine.

Hook: "Join billy and thomas as they douse the fires of secular humanism that threaten to disenchant theistic ideology." eh? eh?

billy will be representing religious persons everywhere. he will oppose not only the move away from religion as irrelevant in a world were science appears to be paving the way to enduring happiness, but also the lack of spirituality within christianity in america. billy feels that religion is first a personal and spiritual experience, and then communal and ideological. he doesnt just want people to "join a team" or adopt a system of political/ethical views. billy realizes that religion and culture have always been and will always be married but feels that religion is more than a utility. Thomas the fire engine is just there so that kids will want to read the book. he says stuff like "oh billy" and "lets sing a song about monkeys."

thoughts?

So it begins..

I've crossed over to the realm of e-honest communication. Which of course is not problematic. while many manifestation of Christianity have traditionally resisted change, I am open to new forms of communication (even ones not used in scripture). If I ever post on here again it will be no small miracle. Ultimately, I desire this site to be a place where friend and family can track my journey.

Faith for humanity is the name of my blogspot. This is not because I plan on saving humanity through my insight here. This is because I feel that faith that takes inventory of the reality of the world is the most geniune and effective kind of faith. Ignorance is the source of most cotentiousness among religious groups and certainly within liberal and conservative sects of the Christian Church. We simply dont know that much about the "Other." I feel that by letting go of our absolutes and searching the intellectual and spiritual universe, we can either arrive again at our absolute with genuine ownership of that faith, or find something that is honest and compassionate while being informed of the "Other."