...and I'm not a huge fan of long walks on the beach, either

When I first fired up my blog, one of the things it asked me in my personal profile was my gender and birthdate. Because everything except my blood sugar level is online anyway, I filled them in and thought no more of it.

Turns out that Blogger displays that information, not in the actual format that I gave it to them, but as a set of astrological data.

So, without my really registering it, I was displaying to the world that I believed in that stuff. Which I don't.

Someone who cares about me and my calling to ministry a great deal shot me an email, asking about it. I am grateful to them for doing so. They said in part the following:

"...Do you know that astrology is a pseudoscience? Should a preacher and prospective pastor be affirming a pseudosceince? Is it exemplary?

"Astronomy we can abide and glorify God with. (Institute for Creation Research has excellent resource material on this, just see ICR on the web.) I don't know anybody who knows anybody godly associated with astrology unless it is genuine ignorance. You are touching things that have their roots in the soothsayers, progosticators, magicians, and Chaldeans of Daniel's and even Moses' day, not to mention the Palm Readers and others around town in our day."

I'd like to state once again that I had no intention of aligning myself with, or legitimizing in any way, the practices/teachings of astrology. I couldn't figure out how to stop it, so I pulled my gender and birthdate from my personal profile, and it went away.

Thanks again. The wake-up call has been registered.


Neither give place to the devil.
- The Bible, Ephesisans 4:27

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Abstain from all appearance of evil.
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- The Bible, I Thessalonians 5:21-23