::jamaal rashaad richardson has been justified by grace alone through faith alone. i had nothing to do with it..so basically if i ever come across as being cocky; feel free to slug me in the grill.

sincerely, j.

Jesus Christ Is Not:

-White: He is not a middle class republican, American sympathizer who watches Nascar during the week and hunts deer on the weekend. He is a Jew. A brown Jew.

-Ethnocentric. He makes no distinctions between ethnic persuasions and holds no predispositions, prejudices, or preconceived biases towards or against any class or culture.

-Your Homeboy: Nobody says "What it do kid," and "You are the Christ, Son of the living God," in the same breath to the same person.

-Your therapist: Nobody trembles before their shrink. None of Dr. Phils patients refer to him as "My Lord and my God."

-A Pluralist: He totally disagrees with Oprah and the great majority of the modern and post-modern philosophies that make all truth relative and all paths lead to the same destination. That is logically the stupidest statement ever concieved. How can simultaneous roads go in opposite directions in perpetuum and eventually join at a given and specific destination?

-A Relativist: He does not believe that Truth is subjective and only realised in specific and individual experience.

-Dead...

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much ado' about nada
::thoughts on my own rationale::

The Proverbial "I"::

>>to most people, saying that I am a wretched, vile, debased person is symptomatic of self-hatred and indicative of low self-worth. i don't at all disagree with these people. in fact, contrarily, i agree with every bit of that notion. only i presume that people who make such diagnosis do so from a limited understanding. yes, it is vehementally true that i hate myself. now is that harsh? most would say yes. here i guess i'll say more precisely, borrowing the chorus from a *reliant k* song>>

//i'm sorry for the person I became. i'm sorry that it took so long for me to change. i'm ready to be sure I never become that way again 'cause who I am hates who I've been. who I am hates who I've been.

>>but even more to the point: "who i aspire to be hates who i've been and dislikes who i am now." so my self-hatred does not stem from a self-esteem issue or a feeling of low self-worth, but rather its the discontinuity of the person i wish to become that frowns severely on the person that i know i am. i am the wretch that song is talking about which leads me next to. . .

The Indespensable "Christ"::

>>i believe in the Judeo-Christian gospel for a myriad of different reasons, thrice intellectually, philosophically, and emotionally. i have not the time and i assume you have neither the time nor the patience to endure my thoughts on all three, therefore, quoting C.S. Lewis (my nigga) in regards to why i believe in the gospel, he says:

//i believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

>>so, in other terms, Christianity possess' that quality of function that is required of all religions, but is found in only one, that is, a lighted path and a guide. i seriously can not go into all the details of why this makes absolutely all the sense in the universe, but if you're that interested...email me. and lastly...

The Idolatrous "Culture"::

>>I spend a great majority of my time (in fact probably all my time) battling against the gods of this culture. from the time I get out of bed to the time I call it quits, I will have been bombarded with a barrage of advertisements, images, headlines, pop-ups; all geared at achieving and gaining one thing. . .my soul. of course marketing moguls don’t talk like that or don’t even probably believe it, but it is nonetheless true. sex is a god. money is a god. style is a god. accumulation is a god. and there is not a day that passes in which the proponents of these sociological enterprises will not try with great force to coerce you. once you buy into the american, pragmatic, self-indulging, self-absorbed, relativistic, post-modern dream. . .well my friend it is almost over.

>>therefore I refuse. they lied to us. with great power and persuasion they’ve been lying to us all along. and as crafty and tantalizing their promises are in the end all male black widows are devoured. hence, my first allegiance is to a King and a Kingdom (thank you Derek Webb) and you can pretend as though religion does not matter and as if God does not exist (or He exist in all the amorphous ways the culture wishes Him to exist in thus making His existence of no consequence) but you can no more banish God into non-existence then you can create a ball of yarn out of lug-nuts. its just not going to happen.

>>I am cool yes. I am trendy yes. I got a bit of a swagger in my step. I am passionate about this life as well as the next. I believe that though men have by and largely lost their sense of loyalty, commitment and faithfulness, chivalry will be resurrected. that’s it for now. . . ....