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Monday, March 31, 2014

Believers That Sin & A God In Whom Is No Darkness At All

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Sunday, March 30, 2014

All Things Dull and Ugly: Monty Python and the Millennium

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In 1848, a song with the title All Things Bright and Beautiful appeared for the first time in Mrs. Cecil Alexander’s Hymns for Little Chil...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Debunking Heavenly Mythology IV: Christians Will Spend Eternity In Heaven

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Does it really matter where we’re going to spend eternity, frankly? I mean Christians, of course. It matters a very great deal indeed t...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot and the Infinite-Personal God

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“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena … Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some priv...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Debunking Heavenly Mythology III: Hark, the Herald Angels Sing

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Um … they don’t. Really. Look it up. Aw, come on, you’re Googling, aren’t you. It’s okay. I did too. I also got my concordance out....
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Dear Preacher: On Calvinism and Pride

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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Debunking Heavenly Mythology II: Saint Peter and the Pearly Gates

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In a previous post I spent a few hundred keystrokes on the things of heaven, trying to point out how very ill-equipped the best of us is ...
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Monday, March 24, 2014

Passing Thoughts on Fred Phelps

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Sunday, March 23, 2014

Debunking Heavenly Mythology I: Angels are Dead People

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In a previous post , I spent some time contemplating the things of heaven and trying, however haltingly, to point out how very ill-equipped...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

The Things That Are Prepared

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The idea of heaven is necessarily a blurry concept to earthly beings. We navigate the world around us via our senses, so it is unsurprising...
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Friday, March 21, 2014

On Reorganizing our Concept of Love

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The following is excerpted from a sermon I enjoyed last night (I did, in fact, warn the preacher that he was likely to be transcribed): “...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Baal Worship, Howard Cosell and Little Details

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In 1931, an excavator named Claude Schaeffer on a dig in Ras Shamra, Syria came across three clay tablets in the ruins of a house belonging...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

The Purpose of the Sacrifices [Part 6]

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Heretics and Coffee

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Monday, March 17, 2014

The Purpose of the Sacrifices [Part 5]

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Sunday, March 16, 2014

In Need of Analysis: The “Four Hour” Rule

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Some help here, anyone? I read this on Tuesday but have had no success at tracking down the original quote on the web (and since Wesley...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

Does Christianity Discriminate Against Women? [Part 3]

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In recent years the accusation that the Bible is anti-female has arisen more and more frequently. The first post in this series dealt with ...
Friday, March 14, 2014

The Purpose of the Sacrifices [Part 4]

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Thursday, March 13, 2014

Does Christianity Discriminate Against Women? [Part 2]

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In recent years the accusation that the Bible is anti-female has arisen more and more frequently. The first post in this series dealt with ...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

The Purpose of the Sacrifices [Part 3]

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