religion

This post from John Scalzi's blog expresses so much of what I've struggled with trying to explain (both to myself, and to my family when I left the church).

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/03/14/reader-request-week-2011-1-children-and-faith/

A sample:

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But again, that’s not about me as an agnostic opposing those who have faith. It’s me as a person who knows the message of Christ pointing out a hypocrite, and me as a person with my own moral, social and political standards countering one whose standards differ. As it happens, I know a reasonable number of people of faith who feel the same way I do, and have many of the same moral, social and political standards as I have. Do I fear them? Discount them? Think them defective? No; I say “I’m glad to know you.” We believe many of the same things; that some of their belief comes from the teachings of Jesus, or from Allah by way of Muhammad, or from Buddha, to name just three examples, does not trouble me. Whatever steps we took to get there, we’re walking the same path.

i watch too much tv

Dish Network technician coming out tomorrow to deliver the new HD DVR. Excited? Perhaps.

But... now we need to enter all these timers in again. My dirty laundry:

• castle
• 30 rock
• the office
• the vampire diaries
• desperate housewives
• the gates
• lie to me
• chuck
• modern family
• glee
• america's next top model
• cougar town
• raising hope
• saturday night live
• bones
• no ordinary family
• human target
• parenthood
• parks and recreation
• community
• in plain sight
• it's always sunny in philadelphia
• bob's burgers
• the cape
• nikita
• ace of cakes
• the graham norton show
• warehouse 13
• project runway
• mr. sunshine
• eureka
• doctor who
• psych
• being human
• the inbetweeners
• house
• 'dexter'
• covert affairs
• episodes
• haven
• wipeout
• masterpiece mystery!
• the walking dead
• burn notice
• californication
• archer
• the big c
• the it crowd
• 'big love'
• top chef all-stars
• ugly americans
• the ricky gervais show
• justified
• white collar
• being human
• the venture brothers
• the league
• lights out
• top chef
• south park
• the ultimate fighter
• eagleheart
• shameless
• the daily show
• the colbert report
• bones
• anthony bourdain
• the soup
• web soup
• bully beatdown
• metalocalypse
• 'weeds'
• avengers: earth's mightiest
• royal pains
• rob dyrdek's fantasy factory
• what would brian boitano make
• tosh.0
• chelsea lately
• ncis
• kitchen nightmares
• torchwood