God is Coming
You knew it would happen sooner or later. You knew there was no escape. But do you really know why?












Cultural Practitioners: A Melting Pot Observation
A generation or more after the Holocaust, the Troubles in Ireland, and consistent religious oppression in other countries, there comes a phenomenon: the cultural practitioner.












Spiritual abuse & cults - why some fall prey
The vast majority of people who join cults were approached at a very low period of their lives. They may have been suffering from deep depression, grief, crisis, profound uncertainty, or questioning their purpose in life.












The Agnostic Pulpit: Explaining Non-belief
Religion and its claims are not my problems until and unless they knock on my door and try to run any part of my life.












Religion in the White House – Is it time for Change?
Should religion still be as important in the selection process for the President of the United States of America?












Outsourced Spirituality: The Organized Religion
The history of Mankind is filled with numerous instances which can be seen as advancements or retreats. The advent of writing is universally seen as an advancement.












The True price of Religious Freedom
Proposition 8 (Amending the California state constitution to make same sex marriage illegal) was touted as preserving Religious Freedom. Can anyone be truly free unless Everyone is free?












My story: Growing up as a Jehovah's Witness
Every child raised as a Jehovah's Witness will have different circumstances. However, the intensity of pressure to conform remains constant.












Do we really need The Ten Commandments?
Religion! Ah...there's a word that crashes into a conversation like a Steer on a Segway. Nothing creates more drama, tension, and war than the old 'my imaginary friend is better than your imaginary friend' debate.












The Message of All Religions (and why it's usually ignored)
In this excerpt from Mr. Shelton's forthcoming novel "The Message" (expected relase date, Fall 2009), a humorous insight is posited as to what God has tried to tell us over the last couple millennia, and why we keep screwing it up.












Were the Inquisitors bad people?
I claim that those medieval church fathers and inquisitors in the service of the church who destroyed their religious opponents without mercy were not basically bad or evil people.












Religion is the Crack Cocaine of the Masses
With the election finally over, we can turn to the biggest social divider of our lifetime, religion.












God vs. Communism: Our search for a national identity
How a decade of racial and political turmoil, a religious president, and an activist priest shaped the religious identity of a nation.



























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