Exactly! It's that simple really.Originally Posted by ShoelessWanderer
i smell the values and virtues that await us on the trail...
peace and love peeps. peace and love!
I can't help thinking that on one of my first AT hikes as a boy, back in the 1960's I remember coming across a bearded man sitting by the trail reading the Bible. He didn't really want to talk so I left and he kept reading... After more than 40 years he still sticks in my mind. There was something very powerful going on, and it had a lot to do with the AT itself.
I'm curious, is it OK to start treads about politics. Religion can conjure up more debate than almost any subject, except maybe dogs on the trail or tent vs hammocks. I couldn't locate any rules concerning religion or politics as a topic.
Well, I say that Jesus should be a part of this community. he said, "Walk, come and follow me". So I picked up my backpack, became a hiker..Thank you Jesus!!
"So what if theres a mountain, get over it!!!" - Graywolf, 2010
One of the best items of bathroom graffiti I have seen; this year at a gas station near Springer
Dear Lord please save me, from your followers...
I have that on a button "jesus, protect us from your followers"
The trouble I have with campfires are the folks that carry a bottle in one hand and a Bible in the other.
You never know which one is talking.
hmmmm
Man you just made me spit all over my computer screen.
Believe what you believe, just as long as you're polite enough to not preach if someone asks you not to... I promise that we nonbelievers have heard it all already.
If only you could hear a tone of voice in the posts, please read each post a few times in your head before a hasty reply, I know I did.
newb here, what is "the Doyle," and the "Mayor's House?"
Legendary Trail bars
Places of spiritual replenishment.
Wait a minute, how did you get into my head?
The "Mayor's House" was the "Outhouse" when I went thru last year. I didn't see God but.... there was an inspirational video.
Vincero!
places to get drunk and puke
Personal observation. On the AT in '06 I met a few hikers who discussed their faith (sometimes prompted, sometimes not.) On the PCT last year it seemed that many more hikers were discussing God, their faith, etc., but none were pushy - just more open. Maybe the more dramatic scenery of the Sierra makes this easier. Just sayin'.
Please keep the Bible thumping away. If I'm approached it'll be a "not worth your time, or mine" from me.
AT '11
Springer Mtn. 3/16/11 -------> Katahdin 8/24/11
Stoveless and Slackless
thank you for RockDoc for bringing up a memory picture of my very old grandmother sitting at her kitchen table in the evening reading her Bible by the light of a bare light bulb hanging from the ceiling. She didn't live close to the AT, and her days of fishing the WI river were decades past, but even I as a young kid could feel something special going on.
Through my struggles trying to understand God I've come to realize the New Testament is important to Christians because it is a book of establishing a personal relationship with Jesus. Just as I can't be "made" or "forced" to establish a personal relationship with anyone here or on a trail; no one can make me establish a relationship with Jesus.
I've been annoyed with thumpers, but I've also been tagged with people showing the love of Christ. My conclusion for my life: I have a heavenly Father who loves me, and when I stray he will try to find me and bring me back home (just like any earthly parent.) Sometimes he puts people in my path that annoy and push and force me to question their tactics and His message; sometimes it is the gentle, powerful image of someone in their personal moment with Him that makes me long for that same type of personal relationship.
HYOH
Why are proclaimed "athiests" really just Christian haters?
If they are really "athiests" (Wikipedia: the rejection of belief in the existence of deities) then they should be equal opportunity haters, and use these pages to insult the Dalai Lama and the idea that Natives have sacred sites that should be protected. Come on, athiests, lets hear your Buddhism rants!!
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