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1. almost 5 years ago on Non Sequitur

   I see the comic as a reminder to look at my own faults, and make sure I am actually practicing what I say I believe. It’s easier to look at the splinter in your brother’s eye than to look at the log in your own. Jesus taught us not to condemn others, but to look to ourselves, and make sure we are right with him first. So many Christians start by focusing on others, rather than focusing on themselves. Perhaps Christianity might be more popular in the unbeliever’s eyes, if more Christians actually did what Christ encouraged them to do, admitted their own faults, before mentioning the faults of others. For my part in this, I apologize to the world.

2. almost 5 years ago on Non Sequitur

   Be careful what you aspire for… You might be knowingly running towards something, then find you got what you aspired to…

3. almost 5 years ago on Non Sequitur

   Really?

   “Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.” – James.

   “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.” – Jesus

4. almost 5 years ago on Non Sequitur

   The Christ said, "Many, on that day, will say ‘Lord, Lord, we did so many great things in your name,’ and I will say, ‘depart from me, I never knew you.’ Matthew 7:21-23

5. almost 5 years ago on Non Sequitur

   So many people who criticize Christianity point their fingers at a very vocal minority, without ever getting to know (what I believe is) a larger majority who actually try to live out their faith in practical and meaningful ways.

6. almost 5 years ago on Non Sequitur

   It’s easier to point the finger at others than to look within ourselves.

7. almost 5 years ago on Non Sequitur

   If you only looked at my disciplinary actions as a parent, you’d get a very specific perception of me as a parent. If you only looked at a policeman chasing down a criminal, having to force an armed assailant to the ground and having to restrain them and throw them behind bars, you’d get a specific picture of what that cop is like. Unfortunately we see what happens when the media takes stuff like this out of context, you have stories that are skewed and incite social reaction of the situation being terribly unfair. Then, a broader picture emerges and we suddenly see that there’s more to the story. I encourage you, Ken, to read the Bible cover to cover, and see if you end up with the same conclusion.

8. almost 5 years ago on Non Sequitur

   Like you, I was raised in a fire and brimstone version of Christianity, but have ended up at a different conclusion as yourself. I have found God always long suffering in seeking out those who have wandered far. I feel badly for those who cannot seem to understand the long suffering mercy of God towards those who are far from him. These people practice a fire and brimstone version of the faith, but do not know the Father. I remember if Christ is the example, we must follow him, and not an imperfect person who claims to be acting in his name. After my own period of wandering far – in reaction to my own upbringing in a fire and brimstone upbringing — and I’ve found God loving, patient and kind, and always trying to bring me back into his family, especially as I defamed him myself. To reach out and love your enemy, is what God did to me. I finally surrendered myself, and my own perspective of our world, to him and his perspective, and I’ve found forgiveness and grace, and it’s led to life and joy, which were missing both from the fire and brimstone and from what I encountered going down my own path. Grace and peace to you.

9. almost 5 years ago on Non Sequitur

   Hitler and the Nazi party promoted “Positive Christianity”, a movement which rejected most traditional Christian doctrines such as the divinity of Jesus, as well as Jewish elements such as the Old Testament. In one widely quoted remark, he described Jesus as an “Aryan fighter” who struggled against “the power and pretensions of the corrupt Pharisees” and Jewish materialism.

   While a small minority of historians accept these publicly stated views as genuine expressions of his spirituality, the vast majority believe that Hitler was anti-Christian, but recognized that he could only be elected if he feigned a commitment to and belief in Christianity, which the overwhelming majority of Germans believed in.

   To say Hitler was Catholic is vastly over-simplifying the argument. His private remarks regularly ridicule the Christian doctrine as absurd, contrary to scientific advancement, and being socially destructive. Hitler agreed to the Reich concordat with the Vatican, but then routinely ignored it, and permitted persecutions of the Catholic Church. Hitler said he anticipated a coming collapse of Christianity in the wake of scientific advances, and that Nazism and religion could not co-exist long term.

10. over 5 years ago on Non Sequitur

    12 newspapers dropped you, good choice. I agree