If I weren't a Christian, I would probably be a Buddhist. But Buddhism does not provide the forgiveness of sins. Buddhism does not have the Holy Spirit. Buddhism does not have The Father. Buddhism doesn't have pure Scriptures. And Buddha ain't Jesus. And there seems to be no end to the journey in Buddhism. And there are major errors of truth in Buddhism regarding the nature of reality. Nevertheless, despite all this, every once in a while, the Buddha wrote something really cool. Check it out.

A man approached the Blessed One and wanted to have all his philosophical questions answered before he would practice.

In response, the Buddha said, It is as if a man had been wounded by a poisoned arrow and when attended to by a physician were to say, I will not allow you to remove this arrow until I have learned the caste, the age, the occupation, the birthplace, and the motivation of the person who wounded me. That man would die before having learned all this. In exactly the same way, anyone who should say, I will not follow the teaching of the Blessed One until the Blessed One has explained all the multiform truths of the world-that person would die before the Buddha had explained all this.

-from the Majjhima Nikaya
From "Teachings of the Buddha," edited by Jack Kornfield, 1993. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications,

'Cept it ain't the Buddha, but God you should be listening to.

This sounds kinda like a parable of Jesus. Someone theorized that Buddha, may have ultimately gotten his wisdom from Solomon.

Most people do not know it, but "separation of church and state" refers to the state keeping it's nose out of the church's affairs, not the reverse.

The false understanding of the "separation of church and state" has been extrapolated into all areas of life.

Just yesterday, in the break room at Virgin Mobile, where I work, I was standing next to a young man of about 20. I struck up a conversation with him as we watched a comedian on TV. (We both had gotten bloody noses because of Colorado Springs' elevation and dryness, and I made a comment about that.)

I noticed immediately that the TV had been changed from FOX to TBN, the Trinity Broadcast Network--the Christian station. I saw the crown icon in the lower right of the screen.

The young man made the comment that he was surprised that the TV was switched to the Christian station at the workplace.

Interesting that people falsely apply this false standard of "separation of church and state" to private business enterprises.

Private business enterprises can broadcast Billy Graham all day long, and lock it onto the Christian channel, if they want. They have the freedom to run their businesses the way they want.

People are starting to forget that people have freedom in America.

(Of course, people also have the freedom to protest things in the workplace.)

The thing that we should be concerned about is that people seem to think that the liberal "politically correct" point of view is the default position of American law.

It's not.

So please don't be intimidated by the false rules of Post-Christian America.

Have you rented a DVD lately?

You know that warning that you can't fast-forward through half of the time?

The one that tells you and shows you in big block letters and loud exciting music that copying DVDs is "stealing"?

Well, I thought about that today.

Do you realize that Hollywood wants to enforce the Law of Moses on you?

Do you realize that the United States government, also, enforces the Law of Moses, and puts people in prison for up to five years, and fines people $250,000 for breaking the Law of Moses?

It's true.

"Thou shalt not steal" is the eighth commandment of Moses (and of God, more importantly.)

Funny that there should be such a fracas over the Ten Commandments in government, and over faith in the movies, when people want most of the laws of Moses enforced by laws, guns and prisons every day of their lives.

"Hypocrites" is what I believe Jesus would call these people.

If he doesn't, then he isn't like Jesus in this area.

Jesus talked a lot about Hell.

Some people think that they are just rejecting the preacher, but Jesus made no such distinction.

If someone preaches the Bible truth to you and you reject it, then Jesus said that you are not rejecting that person, but rather you are rejecting Jesus Himself.