Triforce of Lorule, Legend of Zelda At the core of all three of these very diverse religions and philosophies is “I.” In Buddhism is its I will become enlightened, in Atheism it is I do not need God and I will decide the course of my life, and Satanism is the veneration of the fallen angels who is all about I, “How you are fallen from heaven, O [ a ]Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations! For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’” (Isaiah 14:11-14). At the heart of all three of this triad of I faiths is the concept that you are the center of the universe. Buddhists make their journey all about thief ascension in the Eight Fold Path. Atheists is it to be a humanist-consumer where everything is as...
Deconstructing one’s faith has become very vogue. Many renowned pastors and celebrities in the church have employed this process in an attempt to reform. In Deconstruction there tends to be a spectrum, there are those like Jonathan Harris, the author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye, that has in deconstruction process lost his faith, and then there is the the song by David Dunn, “I wanna go back to Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so, for the Bible tells me, yes Jesus loves me, Yes Jesus loves me.” Deconstructing can be useful when it is to step out of bad doctrines and trends in the church. The Prosperity Gospel and Doctrine is a good example, that someone would have to deconstruct their faith in Christ from it because it is a wrongful and harmful doctrine. However, the deconstruction process has perils, because many “throw the Baby out with bath water,” or as I put it, “the Christ child out with the bad water.” We have had a steady stream of mainstream pastors...