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New/Old avatar, new signature, I'm ready to greet the beginning (or end?) of daylight savings.

Mining deep underground in Minecraft is creepy.  The other day,

Nooooo D:  I have actual friends in Japan now... I hope everyone is ok...

I'm amused but also sad.  I work for a chain hardware store... sorta.  I'm their underpaid out-sourced plant helper.  But part of being such a helper means I'm not allowed to do certain things because those things are meant for the higher paid people to do.  But every year, the store managers somehow forget my job duties, ask me to do all sorts of things I'd get fired for, then I have to tell them I can't do those things, then they call up my boss to get me replaced.  Well they contacted her again, but amusingly, the manager accidentally emailed me also.  So I'm very curious as to why he thinks I work extremely slow and either need a helper or need to be replaced.

Logged into Runescape for the first time in 400+ days to help out a friend who is on a Runescape kick, and I couldn't remember my bank PIN.  I have to wait three days for it to reset :/

I remember that anime... not the best, and took way too many liberties with Norse mythology in my opinion.  I thought the point of said woman (or girl, she's pretty young right?) was to actually motivate Loki to investigate said mysteries?

Lemon's example is an example of Christianity done ENTIRELY wrong.  And how does that lead into Christianity being about intolerance?  My mother doesn't have a religious bone in her body but she was amazingly critical of everything I did.

Christianity is NOT about intolerance.  Yes, you see all the people with "God hates sodomites" signs and the like, and hear lots of horror stories of homosexuals being harassed by their peers.  But those are people who are doing it wrong and are widely advertised for it.  We don't use the phrase "Love the sinner, hate the sin" because we hate sinners.  Jesus even said to forgive 77 times, then forgive another 77 times if need be (implying to forgive someone endlessly).  I've gone to three different churches with forgiving, open-minded people who accept anyone.  The ENTIRE point of Christianity is forgiveness, the defining point between a non-Christian and a Christian is who accepted Jesus's forgiveness.  Just last sunday in church, the pastor had a sermon on all the great people of the Bible (Moses, Elijah, Peter, Paul, and more), discussed all their tragic flaws and sins but also pointed out the great accomplishments they did in spite of their mistakes.  God forgave them even after they messed up big time.  The Bible even defines what love means.

The couple did not express a hatred for homosexuals.  If they did, then yes I would agree they should not be foster parents.  Instead, they expressed the belief that homosexuality is sinful, NOT evil.  Sin and evil are two different things.  Sin is rebellion against God, but can be done accidentally.  Sin is usually addictive and enjoyable.  Sin is tragic, it's emotionally and spiritually destructive to the sinner and often times, to the people around them while giving just enough pleasure to keep rolling with it.  Sin can lead people to be evil, but we always believe that anyone can be reached.  I WOULD be shocked if a family was teaching adopted children that Christianity was evil, as shocked as I would be if it was a Christian family saying homosexuality is evil, or if it was a gay family teaching homosexuality is evil.

A UK Christian couple have lost their right to be foster parents because of their views on homosexuality.  The parents have successfully raised several children already with no complaints.  But now their city council believes their views makes them unfit to raise children.  Or something.

Favorite quote:

[The judges] rejected suggestions that the case involved "a threat to religious liberty", adding: "No one is asserting that Christians - or, for that matter, Jews or Muslims - are not fit and proper persons to foster or adopt. No-one is contending for a blanket ban."

Yes you are.