Kontakion

Well I finally did it, I went to my first "secular" concert ever. Last night my younger brother and I saw U2 in Phiadelphia on their vertigo tour. It was increadible. I may have seen 5 or 6 concerts in my life, unfortunatly all of them were christian bands with no real performance skills. U2 was the most amazing concert ever. They played all the songs I liked and more. My brother and I ended up sitting at the very top of the stadium directly across from the stage, I paid money for bonoculars but they were a complete wast, with this concert you have to take everything into view. The way the stage would lite up and how they would run around the stage it was just increadible. I did try to find a list of the songs for those curious if I find some I will post them latter...

Well first off sorry for anyone reading my blogg. School for the year is done so I am finally able to start writing again. I don't know if I will get to a discussion on sexuality directly yet however I hope to post somethings about that topic. Today I did see something rather disturbing, sA the writer for www.progressiveink.com had a post about the Bush fish. That is just insane my concern becomes that there are a groups throughout history that take a respected ancient symbol and twist it, corrupt it and give it a different meaning. The most recent example is the swaztic with Nazi Germany. That was an ancient and respected symbol that now has evil conotations in our society today. I will wait and see how this turns out. I am convinced that it will leave a scare on christian society with it pushing the boundaries to far.

I have found that sexuality is very important to the physical well being of a person (duh) and their spiritual well being. I have decided that as part of my post here I will be exploring more of sexuality and what is "off limits" (personally speaking not much) and what is great (personally speaking everything). As a future minister I have decided that this is a must in our society today...not to mention a must for my personal sanity. You will hear more as I formate where I am going....

Well now that school has started up some of my writings for class will be appearing here so don't worry more will come here. Some of this however will be reaserch type of stuff, so please bear with me.

In thinking about the relation of sex and the religious experience I have come to the conclusion that there is very little difference. Now to qualify this I have to say that as a guy of course I'm thinking about sex, but reviewing my religious experience I have found most of the 'emotions' that people feel with God are the same as those that are experienced in sexual encounters. Now that is not to say that a person experiences an orgasm with God. But who know since some ancients referred to the religious experience as "ectacy". In the process of the religious experience a person experience all the same emotions so in pentecostalism you could argue that the experience is nothing but pent up sexual energy that is finding relese in god. This is especially true when you listen to the language that is used to speak of God and peoples relationship with him. Such things as "lover of my soul" are quite common and there are more numerous ones to count. All o...

Being that I have had the last several days off from work, it has alowed my mind to start wandering upon the changes that my religious life has experienced in the past year. Last year I was of more of a evangelical base, but now I have swung to being more liberal. When thinking on this I began to think on religious experience. When I was of an evangelical base my religious experience was that of pentecostalism. In pentecostalism the ephasis is placed upon Gods working and movement in spiritual lives now. What has changed for me is that I don't belive that. Now its not that I don't belive that God works and moves now, in fact I do, just very differently than what pentecostals or other experiental religions would belive. Religious experience has now become to me experienceing God in nature or at the wonder of creation. This is not a wiccan or pagan idea of god in nature. But the awe inspiring beautey that is seen in nature. I expereince this through the scientific unde...

I have now decided that the more serious post such as the one previous to this will be posted on a friends web blog, www.liberalreligion.com, this blog will be a place for me to rant, and just speak my mind however it comes to me. Most of it will be centered around god, religion, politics, but this will also allow me to express feelings about music, life, and everything elses in general. So for anyone looking you will be seeing some post from my day to day also while i fool around with the blog figuring out how all of this works.