Empowering Daughters of God

I love the holiday season, and I love Christmas!  Besides listening to Christmas music nonstop, wrapping presents, watching classic movies (including The Best Christmas Pageant Ever), and eating a little extra sugar I have gone down a rabbit hole!  Yes, I'm going to take a minute to totally geek out on you all!  It's true I'm a bit of a media geek.  I listen to and watch a serious amount of content.  From political to pop culture to gossip rags to philosophy to classic literature, I enjoy it all!  I guess you could say that my job allows me to entertain myself while working.  Don't worry, I'm still a top performer at my job and all the work gets done at a high standard.  I'm the type of person that actually stays focused on my work better while listening to something.   Anyway, with the holiday slow down at my job, I've been able to reacquaint myself with the geeky, nerdy girl inside me!  It's been so much fun! The reason this has h...

 The Christian people in early centuries came in contact with many   other religions, like we do today.  Christians had a soft spot for Pagans and for good reason.  They were fascinated by their traditions and beliefs.  Christians wanted to celebrate with other non Christians, they wanted to find common ground, they wanted to be friends, they wanted to convert them. Many Christians saw Pagan beliefs as a bad thing, but they also thought they were worth remembering because these were the traditions of some of their ancestors, this is why they may have been fascinated by them.  In an effort to spread their Christian beliefs among the Pagans and to dissolve an increasing belief among Christians that Jesus was not a real man that lived on the earth, they decided the best way was to celebrate Jesus' birth.  Thus started the adoption of some Pagan traditions!  It did not occur to the Christians to celebrate Christ's birthday because t...

  Jesus said  "you are the salt of the earth" .  I've heard this over and over throughout my life.  My parents would comment on someone's character by saying, "they are the salt of the earth" .  While listening to the General Conference of my church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, there was a talk about being the salt of the earth.  When I first heard it, it stood out to me and prompted me to further research SALT.  For some random reason it made me think of a report I gave in my high school biology class about how salt melts ice.  I have thought of these things for several days since conference.  As I thought of the high school report, I realized that I actually did not remember how salt melted ice.  I had to go look it up again to remind myself.......kind of pathetic, I thought.......after all, I've spent a great deal of my life studying chemistry and biology.  How could I not remember basics of salt?  Salt ...

A few weeks ago I was listening to someone I hadn't listened to before.  I love listening to radio shows and podcasts!  They provide a wide variety of perspectives!  I never knew I would like this show so much.  I never knew I needed the wisdom and truth he was espousing.  This particular show was about Karl Marx's life.  It was about his ideals, beliefs, misery and his connection to the devil.  Yes, Satan, and yes, he was a miserable person.  Much of his teachings were/are very Satanic.  Some of Marx's first writings were poetry and plays about the devil.  If Marx was atheist why would he have such a fascination with the devil?  He was about tearing down the traditional order.  He called for the " ruthless criticism of everything that exists ".   He critiqued his own existence and the existence of others.  He believed that " everything that exists deserves to perish "-Mephistopheles; this was his favorite quote....