Religious Amendments

Text Your Teachings

From the great website of Soul Pancake comes another great creative challenge. Soul Pancake is a website for talking about life’s big questions. Users can ask their own questions or answer the ones posted by others. The space on Soul Pancake where I spend most of my time is the creative challenges under “Stuff to Chew”. This time around someone posted a real brain buster.

He called it Text Your Teachings, and the whole point of the exercise is to write amendments to your religious commandments.

It’s been a long time since God appeared as a burning bush. And as interesting as it is to see the Lord’s likeness in a grilled cheese sandwich, we haven’t found one that talks yet. So while we wait for a non-edible version of a deity to appear and clarify things, take a moment to add some more credibility to your creed:

Write three text messages (each 50 words or less) amending your religion.

My amendments took a lot of thought and I think they summarize some solutions for the problems we are facing today.

  • Amendment 1: Thou shalt not consider employees a drain on your companies profits.
  • Amendment 2: Thou shalt not treasure things over thoughts.
  • Amendment 3: Thou shalt not argue over pointless ideals that can and never will be proven right or wrong.

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Religious Importance of the Number Four

I found this essay in a box lying in my room. This was a topic I covered my freshman year in college, after re-reading and editing it I figured it was interesting enough to share it with you. It will help you to first read the Pima native american creation stories. I hope you enjoy the essay and find the connections as interesting as I do, and again keep in mind this was written my freshman year of college so please forgive the poor writing style.

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Merry (early) Christmas!

Yes I said Merry Christmas, and not happy holidays. Why? Because this is America and no one has the ability to tell me how to celebrate my holidays. That being said I think the whole Merry Christmas vs. happy holidays crap has gone on to long. If I say Merry Christmas to a Jewish person, then he should reply “Happy Hanukkah”.

What a concept! If I say Merry Christmas to an atheist they can feel free to reply “Happy Holidays”. This whole Politically correct America has gotten to the point where it is limiting our freedom of choice.

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