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Marty

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About Me

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My Interests

True Godliness vs. religion

I'd like to meet:

Jesus, Peter, Max (again), Van Gogh, Edgar Alan Poe, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter

Music:

Beatles

Movies:

Big Labowski, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Rocked), Barfly, (Bukowski Rocked too) Fight Club (Ed Norton was brilliant) I watch a lot of movies mainly to get a fresh perspective on our society, and art.

Television:

Daily show, Colbert Report, Bill Mahr, Anything that promotes free thought and acceptance of people.

Books:

Bible, Walden, God's Politics, New Rules, Poetry, (I've had to read so many theology books that I don't wish them on my worst enemy) Anything by John Shelby Spong

Heroes:

Jesus (Because He was whom He claimed to be), Peter, John, Matthew, Luke, Paul, Elijah, Jeremiah, Uncle Bobby, Henry David Thoreau, J.F.K., Martin Luther King, The people of New Orleans, Jimmy Carter, Mother Theresa, Granddad,

My Blog

just an update of my journey and stuff

I haven't checked but it has probably been over a year since I last posted a blog. A lot has happened since then so I thought I might make an attempt to catch up any of you who may be interested. My...
Posted by Marty on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:39:00 PST

Jerry Falwell and the moral majority (what could have been)

..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />  Jerry Falwell- As I sit back and examine this man's life as a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ, I can't help but p...
Posted by Marty on Fri, 18 May 2007 12:34:00 PST

schemas

Father& ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />       I grew up with two amazing dads.  My step dad Max was an amazing man.  Kind, ...
Posted by Marty on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:58:00 PST

Walls

It&  The great it.  The one question never answered in pure truth, but always tainted with views, schemas, ideas and conceptual dogma.  The one question no man can answer until all thin...
Posted by Marty on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:39:00 PST

Just some thoughts

     Bible classes were interesting.  It was good to get to know the writers of the bible.  (Where they came from, what they experienced in life, why they would write som...
Posted by Marty on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:56:00 PST

I just can't keep still anylonger...

Some facts: ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />  Altruism: I can't find my dictionary, (and my wife is finally getting to sleep in today so I can't ask her w...
Posted by Marty on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:30:00 PST

Open honesty...The tranparency of my life as a minister

   Power lines were down and people were suffering in the bitter cold as three inches of ice covered the ground.  It was early December.  We wondered if we had a few months of wint...
Posted by Marty on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:34:00 PST

Excerpt from my book, (rewritten) concerning the surveys

         I went back and reread what I had written.  It is so hard to put into words these thoughts and considerations.  They have to do with a salvation b...
Posted by Marty on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:38:00 PST

Living a Christian life without works

How to lead a Christian life        What discoveries have we made so far?  What have we found on our separate journeys?  I personally choose to search for God within...
Posted by Marty on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 10:05:00 PST

survey for those who don't attend church

If you get bored and want to help me out a bit... My hypothesis is that people have a lot of issues with Christians, but not with God...  Will you help me prove or disprove this hypothesis? This ...
Posted by Marty on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 08:45:00 PST