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Blog entries by Spinning Compass

I feel that it is time for me to come to a parting of the ways with my church. I am sad about this, but I don't belong there. And the longer I stay the more unhappy I will be. Today things came somewhat to a head. I'd been absent the last two Sundays because I've been performing on stage...
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Tomorrow they are laying the young man who was killed at the Community Center party to rest. The article said that he was a young man with dreams of opening his own business someday. Now, because somebody had a gun, those dreams will never come to pass. There are still no answers as to what...
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My little town is reeling. There was a murder early Sunday morning at the town's Community Center. It surprised me when I heard about it because I drove by there about 10:30 Saturday night on the way home from the theater and I don't recall any cars being in the parking lot there. But it was...
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This week we learned that Cain married his sister and founded a city which he named after his son. We also learned about his grandson Lamech who had two wives and killed a young man just for dissing him which makes him the patron saint of gang-bangers. And we learned that everyone lived...
This is a difficult blog for me to write and it may be difficult for some to read. I am in the middle of reading one of the most dangerous books ever written: Mein Kampf. On every page I am encountering mixed emotions. I have to stop and take a deep breath before continuing further. Why...
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Now we come to the story of Cain and Abel and what a story it is! Cain is Adam and Eve's firstborn; Abel is the younger brother. Cain is a farmer; Abel is a shepherd. One day they decide to bring offerings to God. Cain brings some of the crops and Abel slaughters a fine sheep. But God, for...
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Business has been booming lately for the local gun shops. I drive past one on the way to and from therapy and every time I go by it their parking lot is full. In case you don't know what kind of business it is, the sign out front has GUNS in large red letters. Now I've never been in the...
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I'm sure you've all seen them: the posters designed to teach spectrum kids how to recognize various emotions. There's one hanging on the wall of the therapy center where I go. Happy, Sad, Loved, Angry, Scared, Shy and so forth. I find them quite interesting because it really is hard to...
The other night at Bible study one of the women shared about how she was getting her grandson (who has just graduated from high school, so he is a young adult) to come to church. He is currently unemployed so she is paying him gas money to come to church--and for every friend he brings he gets...
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Well, it seems that the church action may have backfired a little. People were pretty upset about it, not that it had taken place (they all agree the person's behavior was not consistent with church values) but about the way it was handled. They did not think it was necessary to name the...
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Today at church, at the end of the service, they invoked Church Discipline on a member. It had to do with the fact that this person had been caught cheating on their spouse and apparently did not intend to change their ways. At any rate it seems this person had not been attending services for...
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Last week we went over Genesis Chapter 2, which Pastor explained was simply an expansion of the events in Chapter 1 and not, as one might think, a completely different story. Since he is committed to a literal view of the Bible in which there are no contradictions I was interested to see how he...
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Here's a quick quiz. Which one of the following is NOT required to be licensed and inspected in the State of Michigan? A. Beauty Salon B. Nail parlor C. Food booth at a carnival or festival D. Abortion clinic doing less than 50 abortions a year If you guessed D, you are absolutely...
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It's really too bad that there is so much controversy over Genesis 1, because I feel that the evangelical insistence on literally interpreting the days of creation has missed the whole point of this chapter. And that is that Genesis is not science, it is not history, it is propaganda. It was...
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For those of you who have been following my blog, for the past two years I have been attending a small storefront independent Evangelical church even though I consider myself an agnostic. Every Sunday Pastor has made his Come to Jesus speech and every Sunday I walk out just as unredeemed as...
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A few days ago I wrote about the controversy surrounding a local abortion clinic that had been shut down due to safety and health violations. Now that photos of conditions inside this clinic have been released, one would think that its supporters would step back and say, hey, wait a minute...
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Yesterday I watched a documentary on Buck Brannigan, the horse whisperer who goes around giving clinics for people and their problem horses. Now Buck came from an extremely abusive childhood and could have been that way himself but he deliberately and consciously made the choice not to be...
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Recently there has been a controversy over whether an area abortion clinic should reopen. This clinic was closed for numerous safety and health violations. Furthermore it seems that the doctor running the clinic has had numerous malpractice charges filed against him. Now it would seem that...
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The other day I was watching the Tom Hanks-Julia Roberts comedy "Larry Crowne". Larry is a middle-aged man who has been happily employed by the U-Mart Corporation--made employee of the month 9 times--until one day he is called into the office. There, a team from Human Resources awaits him...
Tonight I was doing therapy with my therapist and she made an interesting observation. She said that clinics like hers should start preparing themselves for an onslaught of hand problems because so many people are gaming and texting all the time. I'm afraid she may be right. Since I started...
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