Blinded By Sight
Having left my evangelical Christian beliefs a few years ago, I find myself often appalled at my past beliefs. I marvel at how easily I would believe so many tall tales of religious lore. Perhaps some of it was from a child hood that loved fantasy and wished for a reality fashioned more like my comic book interests. This repulsion of past naivety and love for the clear and empirical have often made me enjoy reading or listening to the thoughts of atheists who speak out against the irrational beliefs of the religious. I can so much identify with their criticism and sometimes cynicism. Yet, I can never go as far as they. Whereas I heartily agree that the Bible is filled with tales that

Talking Snakes
Recently I have been amazed at the health care debate that has been occuring in our country. I am appalled at the wild claims like 'death panels' that so many quickly believe and so vehemently speak out against. It is both sad and comical to see people ardently and feverishly criticize items that are not true or based loosely on fact. I am so tired of hearing about the exaggerated claims about socialism. I sometimes puzzle how people can be so naive. However, while considering this I have reflected on days past when I was an evangelical Christian. I remember reading the story of the garden of Eden in Genesis 3 and hardly stopping on the fact that Eve dialogued with a snake. How odd th