Oh Boy...I got this article of of Andrew Sullivans The Daily Dish and i must say, this is scary. What she is praying for is downright censorship of the media, something guaranteed by our constitution to never happen. I mean does she really understand what she is saying at all? The "Christian Broadcasting Corporation"? Its saddening to think that people agreed with her as well.

Mental Health Break....Assault

Compliments from over the lake.

Democratization of Finding God

Ross Douthat, a NYTimes Op-Ed columnist, had a great article whether the mysticism has gone mass-market and against what it should be, or that religion in general has just evolved. And while he plays both sides of the argument well, when he says

"By making mysticism more democratic, we’ve also made it more bourgeois, more comfortable, and more dilettantish"

He seems to be throwing the ball towards the other side, which I completely agree. Religion is really not meant to be something you insert into your life when its convenient, and if thats a problem, you accommodate. Anything else would just distance yourself from the true meaning of the religion, no matter which one it is.

Mental Health Break...GO!!!!

Rick Reilly's great article. Read an enjoy.

Time.com had this really great article on a surge in the studying of religion on state-affiliated campuses. I think this is exactly the thing needed to not only revitalize interest in religion, but to also keep it from tearing itself apart. With more people having a religious base background, it seems there less likely to preach the wrong message, or even create their own version of church doctrine.

The C Street Center

The NYTimes website had this really interesting Op-Ed article about the C Street Center. For those that don't know, this place is inhabited by conservative christian politicians. What is wrong with this picture is that it counts as church, and has extremely large tax breaks. While other problems surround this place, what i view as wrong, and according the article, many other church officials do as well, is that it continues to receive tax breaks when its in fact not a church. In general, tax breaks for religious establishments is wrong. Its essentially setting up a way for anyone to just claim there business or operation as a religious establishment and receive cheap tax breaks. Hopefully, the C Street Center will be made an example of, and along with them, anyone who fakes to receive the breaks.