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Book Review: Save Me From Myself
Save Me From Myself, a memoir written by former Korn co-lead guitarist Brian “Head” Welch, is an interesting and fairly well told story of drug addiction and religious salvation. If you didn’t already know, Welch quit Korn in 2005 after a religious awakening in which he felt led to completely give up drugs, end his career in Korn, and dedicate his life to Christ. In Save Me From Myself, Welch essentially explains how all this happened by talking about his early childhood, how Korn formed, what is what like for him to be in the band, his relationships with his fellow band members and his now ex-wife, his daughter, his drug addictions, and how all of that finally lead him to quit the band and dedicate his life to Christianity.
Posted by Ryan on 15 October 2007 » read » 5 Comments
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Counterpoints: The God Delusion - Chapter One
Chapter One of The God Delusion, ‘A Deeply Religious Non-Believer,’ is the true introduction to Dawkins’ book. In it, Dawkins begins to lay the groundwork for the major arguments against religious faith that are to come. In so doing, he splits the chapter in to two sections, ‘Deserved Respect’ and ‘Undeserved Respect.’ ‘Deserved Respect’ takes on the differences between Einsteinian religion and supernatural religion, while ‘Undeserved Respect’ seeks to explore the notion that, in Western society, religion is given more respect than it deserves. Read on…
12 August 2007 » read » 11 Comments
Counterpoints: The God Delusion - Preface
And so it begins, the great experiment in which my brother-in-law, Charles Jones of pos51.org, and I set forth on what is sure to be a months long inquiry into Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion, Lee Strobel’s The Case for the Creator, and Alister McGrath & Joanna Collicutt McGrath’s The Dawkins Delusion? (a book that seeks to specifically refute the Dawkins text). Will we make it to the finish line? Who knows. I’m working and writing three or four screenplays, and Charles is working and, oh, by the way, is married and has a newborn child, so demands on our time might intervene every now and then. And we might get so fed up with each other that we abandon the whole endeavor. But I hope not. I hope we reach the finish line. Because, to me, this is an important topic, maybe the most important topic that there really is. Does God exist? Read on…
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