This notice hereby confirms that

Darrell "El De" McClung
272 Four States Road (Formerly:RR 1 Box 69C)
Worthington
WV
26591
USA

is an ordained member of the clergy of
The Church of Spiritual Humanism
Date of Ordination: March 5, 2003
Ordained by R. A. Zorger, President
www.SpiritualHumanism.org

CONGRATULATIONS AND WELCOME!

The Church of Spiritual Humanism is happy to inform you that your ordination request has been reviewed and approved, and you are now an officially ordained clergy member. (O.C.P./Ordained Clergy Person)
You are now entitled to all privileges and courtesies normally offered to ordained members of the clergy. The record of your ordination has been entered into the official permanent records of the Church of Spiritual Humanism. Ordinations by the Church of Spiritual Humanism are for life...
As an ordained member of the clergy, you are hereby authorized by the CSH to officiate religious rites and ceremonies, including marriage, baby naming, funeral services, invocations, and holiday ceremonies...
The Church of Spiritual Humanism promotes religion based on Reason. As a member of the CSH clergy it is your charge to strive to base your actions on, and influence others to be motivated by, deliberation and Reason and not the irrational, emotional, or subjective. Furthermore your responsibilities are to peacefully follow the proper course of action, and to avoid infringing on the rights of others. You alone are responsible for your actions as a member of the clergy.

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Rev.D. El De McClung,O.C.

Does luck just happen...or is it created? I've been fortunate, but I am not certain that luck had anything to do with it....
If I accept the idea that every thing good comes from the random occurance of "luck" then I would also have to accept the random occurance of bad luck....if that is the case then NO luck would be neither good nor bad.....assuming that luck is simply another way of stating "fate" or shall we say pure CHANCE, we would have to acknowledge that we, as members of the human race or particles within the cosmos, have no say in the occurrence of events or conditions that may exist that effect our lives. In other words, every thing in life is the result of a roll of the dice, or perhaps just dependent upon the whims of a God. I reject the concept based upon the believe, or lack of belief, that there is some mighty power who has the frailties of Man and who directs all events in the Universe according to his mood on that particular moment.
On the other hand, events do seem to appear to be random at times and at other times, depending on our desires to be either happy or unhappy over that occurrence, may appear (to us) to be controlled by some unseen power that either favors our happiness or doesn't favor our happiness....or our good fortune.
I am willing to give credit to chance, luck, or whatever word suits you, including fate or even "it's the will of God", so long as I do not have to relinquish control over my own actions and, therefore, give up the responsibility and the acceptance of the consequences of my own decisions.
I may be "lucky" to have a good and decent wife, but it was my decisions to find one, whoever she may be, that created the conditions that brought about my "lucky" discovery and secured her affections and, thus, establish my own happiness according to my will and capacities to satisfy her wants, needs, and desires...her happiness.

Well, it goes something like this: If you claim that something is true, I will examine the evidence which supports your claim; if you have no evidence, I will not accept that what you say is true and I will think you a foolish and gullible person for believing it so.

"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires" - -- Susan B Anthony.

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"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life".-- Jane Addams

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"The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?" - -- John Adams

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"Even the sceptical mind must be prepared to accept the unacceptable when there is no alternative. If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands" - -- Douglas Adams

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"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea." --- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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"If every one who "knows" that their "God" really exists were to produce one shread of evidence to support their "knowing" then all of us who "believe" otherwise would have nothing to argue about come Sunday morning. But then again, the World's mental institutions are not known for housing people who insistently proclaim NOT to hear mysterious voices from Heavenly Deities. Doesn't it seem odd that God found it necessary to keep all the proof a secret from all of us "sane" people, all the while revealing Himself to those who refuse to acknowledge their own God given abilities to think rationally? "Knowing" something that is UN-knowable is pretty much the same as "believing" something that is UN-believable. The only difference, as I see it, is that knowing requires evidence, and believing only requires that the believer can rationalize the irrational. It has long been held that the ability to rationalize the irrational is a sign of insanity. There is little doubt in my mind that the insane are in the majority in this Society. It has been said that when there are more insane people than sane people that insanity would be the socially accepted norm, and that those who found themselves in the asylum would be considered the sane ones."
D. el De McClung, O. C.

It is unfortunate but I find it difficult to tolerate ignorance, stupidity, and illogical people these days. I believe one reason is because as I have grown older I am realizing that these three mental impairments may not be curable. In my younger days I believed that ignorance could be replaced with education, stupidity was just a temporary lack of good judgment, and logic always won out over the irrational and illogical. That Truth hurts...and produces dispair and limits my hopes for Mankind.