The initial step you need to take to fix your credit report is to request a copy of your credit report from each of the major credit reporting agencies….

I understand that FICO 08 will weigh the account balances more heavily than the previous FICO versions. It use to be a 30% weight – but now it is more….

But yeah, I love the term “happy-hour of honesty” and “epiphany of intellect”. That’s some good debate ammunition right there.

One must wonder how many more religious leaders out there are faking it. Could it be… a lot?

Probably more than folks realize. It’s human nature to question, and wonder about things, no matter how religion tries to suppress it.

I think we’re jumping the gun here. It doesn’t matter whether or not she was an atheist, or a devout believer. What matters is what she did. Fed and clothed ALOT of people. That, in itself, is goodness made manifest.

An interview about it with Hitchens,

http://www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/490/theresa.htm

There is also Penn and Teller’s show about her on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q1m-8npkJ4

Mother Teresa was not good, she was a crook.

In fact, they see his absence as part of the divine gift that enabled her to do great work.

If this isn’t poppycock then I know nothing about poppy…or cock.

As the article stated, she “dug herself into a pit”, and then had to keep up the charade for cash. No gawd=no gawd. Mother Theresa was guilty of doublespeak.

In my own case I would describe reaching that fork in the road as a time of crisis. I had been indoctrinated from the cradle onward until somewhere around age fourteen I began to question the horrors of that firey pit commonly known as hell should I cast aside everything I had been taught. This certainly put me in what I would describe as a lengthy crisis period.

My Websters says crisis is 1)The turning point in the course of a disease, when it becomes clear whether the patient will live or die. 2)A turning point in the course of anything; decisive or crucial time, stage or event. 3) a critical situation; a situation whose outcome decides whether possible bad consequences will follow.

I’m thinking all those definitions pretty well describe my turning point. Granted, I wasn’t going to die had I chosen to remain xian, but even so I would have continued to suffer the mental torment religion causes. And, although I am at least 99.9% atheist I suppose if I’ve made the wrong choice and xians have anything to do with it that bad consequences will follow.