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Thanks for the upvotes, yall. I guess some folks automatically downvote religious stuff. At least I am beating Ann Coulter? Yikes. :)

So, its funny. I don't think I have ever had this great conversion moment, nor a moment where I felt like my doubt so overtook me that I lost faith or whatever. I mean, do I doubt? Yeah, of course. Anybody who says they don't is lying or unthinking. My faith is sufficiently intellectual (that is, as opposed to emotional) that when bad things happen, I don't lose faith or whatever because I don't think God causes bad things. That said, my wife has had cancer, my niece died, one of my best friends committed suicide when we were teenagers. These kinds of things would be faith-shaking for anybody. You know what most shakes my faith, though? When people act like they're all religious and then live as if nothing is different. I mean, that makes me question my calling more than anything else. As to getting it back or whatever, again, I just always seem to come back to the idea that GOd is love and that the business of sharing that love with others is the most important thing in the whole world. Is that a sufficient way of talking around your question? :)

Not a scientist. I leave the business of the earth being old to people who actually know about, you know, geology. What are my views on evolution? We're still doing it. We've been doing it for a long time. Gay marriage? Ah, so I disagree with my denomination on this one and I have been fighting to change it. The United Methodist Church says that homosexuality is "incompatible with Christian teaching" and because the church is growing in (conservative churches in) Africa, we haven't been able to change it yet. As for me, I am a big fan of marriage, and my argument in favor of marriage equality is, I think, a conservative argument. Why wouldn't we want the great, fundamentally conservative institution of marriage open to others?! So yeah, I'm pro. In the Book of Romans, the apostle Paul says that nothing can separate us from the love of God. So no, you're not going to hell. And some silly deathbed decision isn't going to change that.

My biggest problem with Will and Grace is that it wasn't very funny.

Thanks. Means a lot.