myTakes: Religion & Spirituality

I was viewing a pastoral post online and a woman said a man she knew was miraculously healed from an injury that left him bed bound but he refused to work after being cured because he wanted to continue collecting...

The reason millionaires are miserable is that joy comes by helping others and not by receiving help from others and when I’m not able to help others, imagining and visualizing myself helping others brings me the same joy...

I believe charity is the only cure for loneliness and existential fears, and the bible says if you pursue charity and moral kindness, God will bless you to infinity, so long as you continue to be charitable and charity...

I remember as a 19 year old, a short man tried to get respect by earning high amounts of money to make up for his ugly face and than kicked me out of his prayer group when I talked about my problems because I was asking...

Today she made the lie that I had rich parents and travelled all over the world, had $10,000 bags and never worked a day in my life, so let’s see if this lie is believable. I mentioned I had been in Canada since age 4 and...

I think one problem with girls and guys is they don’t know when to quit. You should think of men and woman as whales, they need to rise to the surface once in a while for oxygen, and girls who only talk about dating and...

I do not like Christians or Hindus or Buddhists or any religion on earth that sacrifices morality for theology, I believe morality and theology should be friends that help each other and not enemies that try to destroy...

When I was 30, I took a class with a Korean professor who hated me, he would give me dirty looks or angrily ghost me if I talked to him and would lie to the university about how many answers I got right on tests and if I...

Today I judged a Christian missionary operating in Africa because she wanted to leave her humanitarian charity for 2 months to fly to Canada to recover from a car crash and I thought it would take over $7,000 in donations...

To me 666 is a symbol for possessive judgment To carry the mark on the forehead is to evaluate others by their income To carry the mark on the right hand is to love or hate others based on their physical beauty or ugliness

I don’t know how rare or common humility is in this world but in my secular family, nobody is humble, I also realized today that I also lack humility. Today I was in a digital zoom event and I got annoyed because the lady...

The bible says that in God’s house, God makes many mansions so many people have room to enjoy God’s blessing I used to hoard my book outlines, afraid that others would steal my idea and I would not benefit from my...

Today I was watching the news and four rich, good looking, fit and very intelligent men risked their lives to save a stranger from a burning car knowing it was a risky act and they could die in the process. One of the...

All the miserable people I know over the age of 34 have one thing in common, which is that they refuse to let other people be happy. I asked my dad to drive me to a bubble tea shop because I had a friend who worked there...

There is a guy on this site who creates fake profiles to mock poor people, disabled people, unattractive people and friendless people and this is also something Donald Trump likes to do, even though he also harasses and...

There are a few reasons I avoid a lot of Christian worship songs 1 - A lot of extraneous and non semantic vocal sounds are interjected into the lyrical dialogue of the music that have nothing to do with the moral message...

What I learned by watching kind people in seniors homes, on tv, at Christian clubs, among my friends and by considerate employees at places I go, is that those who are religious and compassionate carry themselves with a...

I believe that bad behaviour is unpleasant but hatred is more unpleasant than morally bad action and behaviour. Like a child who steals cookies is bad, but a parent who bruises and tortures the cookie thief is worse than...

If you want God to bless your relationships, you must glorify God in your relationship, and show respectful consideration to people in your friendships, and be kind and nourishing in your attitude towards others, when...

I have 4 simple rules for Christians who want easier lives: 1 - Don’t worry about your reputation, protect and honour the reputation of others 2 - Don’t worry about your own joy, protect the joy of others 3 - Don’t worry...