ryan.the.calvinist

The following is contained in the Michael Molloy textbook that I used for Religion 210 entitled Experiencing The World's Religions: Tradition, Challenge and Change . Inspired by the biblical admonition to "pray always," [Luke 18:1] many forms of prayerful meditation have emerged in the long history of Christianity. In Russia, it became common to repeat some form of the Jesus Prayer: "Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on me." That was done hundreds of times a day, until the repetition became almost as automatic as breathing. In Greece, monks practiced sitting quietly, putting their heads forward, and guiding their consciousness to the center of their bodies, where they used their imaginations to experiences the inner light of God. In Europe of the Middle Ages, a form of walking meditation began to be done in labyrinths designed in the flooring of grand churches--such as we see at Chartres Cathedral in France. (This walking meditation is becoming i...

Disney is filth. I am sure many of my readers are thinking "duh we know this..." Yes... yearly they have Gay Week @ Disney World (which is not made public as to when it is... even though Six Flags makes Christian Weekends public)... Yes the cartoon The Proud Family is a left-winged racist show against whites... but what I discovered tonight was worse. A TV-G rated television show called "Life With Derek." What's the problem? An episode entitled "Babe Raider." The main character is seemingly offended that her family (a kind of brady-bunch mix of the father's sons and the mother's daughters) seems to be too "male dominant" and needs some feminine ideals put in place. Examples of this include the playing of the video game "Babe Raider" (direct parody of "Tomb Raider"), and one of the sons having obscene posters of women in "thongs" on his wall (whether or not these are directly shown on camera, the imp...

The following is a message I sent to someone I've known for several years now. She claims to be a Christian but as a bleeding-heart liberal, she refuses to recognize the need for our government to make laws that go in accordance to what the Bible says about certain issues... primarily gay marriage and the brutal killing of innocent infants known as abortion. She posted a bulletin on Myspace saying "if you believe in gay marriage, repost this and sign at the bottom." When I asked her about it, she explained how she has gay friends and how she feels that God just "wants us to be happy." I replied with the following: 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Romans 1:24-26 you said the homosexual was different from the child molester. really? how? both is sin. do you recognize that homosexuality is sin? It was in OT law and still is today. Why shouldn't we make governing laws that reflect morality? Why go against what God has deemed right and wrong? This is unwise t...

So I have been dealing with a battle with lust for... oh... probably forever. It started back in 1998 or so when Chris Vroman and his brother John got me to transport some Playboys owned by a kid at our school Eric Paugh from where we found them at the bottom of Dead Man's Hill @ Spanish Lake Park to Chris' house down the street from me. I knew I shouldn't have, but Satan won that battle and I helped them carry 'em. I know I shouldn't have looked once we got them there... but I had the urge to anyway. Man is born evil... it wasn't culturally conditioned for me to sin... it was an inward desire I have due to my sinful nature. Jenny McCarthy was the first one I saw in a Santa layout with puppies. Thankfully, I do not recall many/any details of this. There is a saying that goes something like this: It takes a guy 20 seconds to look at a porn, and 20 years to forget what he saw... or something like that. But thankfully God has stripped me of any real memory...