“If a man is Conservative at 20 he has no heart. If he is Liberal at 40 he has no brain.”- Churchill

If that is the case the people who knew me at 20 will contest I had no heart. Anyone who knows me now will probably say I am losing my mind. I can take that because I see it as growth. It’s not so much a loss of reason but rather a gain of understanding. You could also say I haven’t turned off my mind but I have turned on my heart.

To understand how this transition came about in my life you would have to understand my relationship with God and personal faith. To me God is not some imaginary friend named Jesus who I talk to when Im bored, scared or in need. The philosophies of Christ have taught me how to love, forgive and realize that I am not perfect. I use the Bible as a guide to live my life, not as a tool to condemn others for how they live theirs. The Man who crafted my faith hated organized religion and stated that the church is not a place. The “church” is alive inside of me. I do not go to some building out of obligation, I go to church to grow in my understanding of my faith and ultimately my understanding of myself. I am empowered by the knowledge that salvation and wisdom is exclusively up to me, which can only be achieved through my actions and my own free will. That is why I have made it the mission of my life to strike down oppression and anyone who imposes their will on others. I do not push my faith on others I share it and the peace it gives me.

When I look at nature I see chaos. I feel science is man’s way of understanding the natural world. The problem I have with science is that it is too clean and black/white. The reality of it is, Life is dirty and there are many shades of grey. If our Societies and Lives ran as clean and mathematically sound as Science, our world would be a pretty boring and robotic place. All the societies that tried to view and apply Science (whether social or physical science) to the world have done some pretty gnarly things.#Hitler #Stalin #Mao Their actions may not have been in the name of Science but in the name of Progress and those dreams of a man made Utopia turned into real life nightmares.

Jesus brought chaos to organized religion and put the power of salvation into the hands of everyone. All you have to do is give up the concept that man can be perfect or a god. I would prefer to believe in an incomprehensible omnipotent force than on the precision of German engineering.#SeeWhatThatGotUs