I went this year as my last time, for I'm getting too old. But what a great way to share the Good News of Christ's Sacrifice and Salvation. As they say, it beats preaching to the choir, which is what too many of us do.

God's Way, Truth and Life will be found by all who truly seek and ask with a heart to receive and follow no matter what. Ask questions, keep asking questions and live the truth you know. Love is the answer.

If you really think the only way to love God and Life is by doing exactly what you do, you are ignorant. I still love you though, cause we are all God's children. And I want you to be able to celebrate God and Life and Love however you see fit for yourself.

But the fact is, for myself and many, BM is all about love and peace , self expression, and fun. Yes, there are people in the world who can even poke fun at "Satanic themes" and not take it seriously, meaning they themselves are not Satanists, but they know that love and acceptance is in their hearts and at the end of the day, what is in each person's hear is between them and God, wouldn't you agree?

You honestly think 60,000 people are all Satanists who come from all over the world to do THAT? The person who wrote this who was there made that crap up. There are actually people of all religions represented at Burning Man, including Christians. But not the hating variety of Christians, who don't really follow Christ's message of love.

Why can't certain Christians (those who do not follow Jesus command to unconditionally love one another and turn the other cheek) accept that a person's connection to their Divine Creator is a deeply personal one? Answer: Because they've been brainwashed and taught that there in only one way to love God and all Creation and if you show your love of God and creation in any other way via any other activity, religion, custom, tradition, philosophy, or mind set that they do not understand, it is not valid to them. That is why these types of religious people think that everybody on the entire planet tha is not in their particular denomination, they are bad/lost/satanist people. And that includes all the different denomination of Christians that disagree with each other about things like homosexuality, child abuse, abortion, women's rights, etc. Christians don't even have to leave the world of Christianity, with its hundreds of denominations, to find others who not only disagree with them, but are judging them as well.

Well guess what? I, nor anyone else on this entire planet, do not need you to tell me what my relationship with God is. I have a relationship with the Divine as well as the Divinity within myself (God is my co-creator) and it is based on love and acceptance of myself and other, even close minded, judgmental people like you, who do not know or understand what unconditional love means! : )

"The Kingdom of Heaven is spread on the earth, but men do not see it."

Hell for me, is when I forget that all God requires of me is that I love myself, and all of life itself, every living thing and person. Heaven is when I "come back to God" meaning to reconnect with that unconditional love.

Why is the whole world a paradox? It could only be a paradox if it was in rebellion against that which created it.

But, Christians contend, there was never more than their one god. Then this god created the devil. Being all-knowing, this god knew how the devil would turn out even before the devil was created (even knew I would type this before I typed it). Therefore, because god had knowledge of all this before the fact, then the performers only believed they had a choice about the action each took – the devil to turn on its creator (and, somehow, be allowed to continue to not only exist, but THRIVE!), and me to write about it herein.

Even before I was conceived, your god knew that I was going to call the carefully paragraphs Thomas Horn wrote above silliness, good for but the weakest of tired giggles, the puff of an insignificant mind, the gas from a bowel after beans.

The Lord God works in mysterious ways and, since it was known before my conception that I would write these words, I have no choice – despite the illusion of my free will – but to write them. I am ow going to pour myself another beer – about which your good had apriori knowledge, as well, so, again, it is my destiny.

One last thing – when any of you has a child dragged along the pavement, wrapped around the axle of a garbage truck, grated like a soft carrot, I want you to drop to your knees and weep tears of joy for the way your god has decided to work his most wondrous deeds BECAUSE, you see, "HE" either A) knew it would happen and allowed it, because "HE" knew that her horrific death would yield more benefits than costs or B) caused it to happen – ditto for the reason. She was created to die screaming while being grated like a carrot under a truck.

The above is an imaginary scenario. There is so much blather about thanking God for "saving" a lost child, for example – apparently because the amount of fervent prayer reached some critical mass – but NOT thanking HIM when even MORE fervent and sincere prayer fails (and HE will never pay much attention to the solo prayer performer. Heh. Put Human Beings in clothes, let them produce a bit, and they actually think that they have escaped the trees…) OR when REALLY BAD SHIT HAPPENS (HITLER AND POL POT (most Anglos in the US don't even know who he was – no matter the million or so HE killed – they were all asians, so who gives a shit, right?) could not have existed without the Christian god doing a cost-benefit analysis.

I second the Mercedes jab made above.