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The Goodness of America

I touched the wings of an angel today and it felt like all was right with the world.   I didn’t know that I was speaking to an angel at first and only realized it long after the contact was over.   This feeling of euphoria still sticks with me and it is because of that that I would like to share it with you. I have been involved in the Transportation industry for quite some time now and that combined with my years in the military plus all of my interactive experience with people; have made me come to believe that there are angels among us.   They are nothing like those we see in movies or in print and they do not come with halos or wings.   These angels are very similar to us and many times so much like us that it makes me wonder why we can not be much more of an angel than some of us already are. The angel I met today went by the name of Jay and drove for a company called Natural State Carriers.   The first time I met him it was strictly business.   I...

Atheist “The Good Book” in competition with “The Bible”

While there are those who strongly disagree with The Bible, no other book currently or later created that will ever be able to compete with it.   The Bible is more than just a bunch of words; it’s a life map and provides the guidance that we all need from time to time when we have lost our way. Jessica Ravitz of CNN article titled Leading atheist publishes secular Bible explains the Good News this way.   “ The Bible would have been “a very different book and may have produced a very different history for mankind,” had it drawn on the work of philosophers and writers as opposed to prophets and apostles, says Grayling, a philosopher and professor at Birkbeck College, University of London, who is an atheist.   “Humanist ethics didn’t claim to be derived from a deity," he says. "(They) tended to start from a sympathetic understanding of human nature and accept that there’s a responsibility that each individual has to work out the values they live by and ...