Just figured I would introduce myself, since that seems like the polite thing to do here. I listed my religious beliefs as "Pagan" mostly because I couldn't think of exactly what to call myself. I am not a Theist, but I am not so sure I am willing to reject the concept of "God" entirely- though I think it needs some serious redefinition. The question "What is God?" is one that I like to play around with. I come from a Pentecostal background, for the record, and I am a big fan of the teachings of Jesus- where we can determine just what it was he said exactly. To this end, I have done alot of studies in Biblical historical criticism, particularly the works of John Dominic Crossan. I am also interested in all of the mystical and "supernatural" stuff that goes on beyond our scientific explanation, but I try to keep a strictly critical view of these things and when a scientific explanation presents itself, I am very willing to accept it. So in general I have a working hypothesis that there is lots of groovy stuff going on out there that we have no scientific explanation for, but that's probably just because science hasn't caught up with it yet. Well, that's it for now I guess
