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Dennis Diehl is a former pastor of 26 years, who outgrew the Literalism of Fundamentalism. He writes about Pastoral and Church abuse and is available to speak on such topics or be helpful to any church suffering under abusive religion or pastors.
SHARE Wednesday, January 16, 2008 Speaking From the Heart Mr. President?
The Bible notes that "out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks." Is that what we are experiencing with Mr. Bush's gaffes and observations of how it all is in this world he has created for us?
SHARE Saturday, January 5, 2008 So Many Ideas-So Many Beliefs--Think for Yourself This Time Around
We tend to join and support what serves our personal needs and beliefs and then act as if all others are wrong for not filtering the world through these needs of ours. It's not way to run a planet. It is no way to elect a President. And we certainly don't need a President who filters his world, and by extention, ours, through his religious beliefs.
(7 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 29, 2007 Those Prospering Pastors--When To Say No
Not everyone who is collectiong your hard earned money for God, works for God. Ask yourself these questions before you give to fund the end time work of some prophet, priest or king.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 16, 2007 "I'm So Disillusioned."--Excellent, Now We Are Getting Somewhere!
"Oh I am so disillusioned." Oft repeated words these days when it comes to religion and politics. But who wants to be "illusioned?" Who wants to live with illusions? While painful, becoming disillusioned is the first step to recovering our political and religious sanity.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, December 3, 2007 From Pastor to Bastard...What a Trip!
Thanks to the abuse and misuse of the Good Book by the piously convicted but marginally informed, ministers and layman alike are waking up to the cold facts of Christian origins. People want to reside in the comfort of the "Old Old Story," as long as it is the same old story. And there are many abusers of the sincere out there more than willing to take you down the path to our harm.
SHARE Sunday, December 2, 2007 Exclusivism--The Mind Virus From Hell
Exclusivism and just how to perpetuate that specialness that comes with many mindsets within religion, or politics, is a mind virus that is going to take the world down in flames. The Neo-Con counselors to the Republican Party have set the stage for the biggest sanitation problem in the history of the planet.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 16, 2007 Uh oh...A Bigger Secret Than THE SECRET..again.
Ooops...seems there is a bigger secret than THE SECRET. Another Guru appears to be imploding trying to prove more stuff and bigger toys is the key to human happiness. Buyer beware...
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 11, 2007 Giving Away Our Power..A Very Bad Habit
We have all done it. We are all guilty of it. We have all turned against ourselves allowing it. In America, we who can't not see what we do see, still do it.
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 7, 2007 All Candidates...Please Step Through The Mental Detector
I don't believe it is unreasonable for "we the people" to ask all those who aspire to high office to pass through a MENTAL detector as you drag us with you on your journey.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 19, 2007 Dear Mr. President--You Are Not Special--Something You Forgot
We don't really want a War President. It's not really just your job to make all the decisions and our to just go about our business. Here's a simple fact of life, Mr. President, that you and your base have forgotten, or never knew.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, September 17, 2007 Monotheism-Source of Unending War and Pain
The idea that my God can woop your God and all your associated believers is getting old. Humans and Rebublicans (little joke there)need a new paradigm if we are to reap more than the whirlwind of exclusivism in human thinking.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 16, 2007 Neander-Thoughts and Thinkers-Ideas in Religion That Never Really Worked
Neander-Thoughts are ideas that pretty much have proven themselves not to work well in real time. They existed for a long time but now have come and gone like the Neanderthals of old. Neander-thoughts produce Neander-Thnkers which has gotten us all into this world mess to begin with.