Category: Religion/Christianity
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So you say you want deliverance from JUDGEMENT DAY?
Advertisements [copied from my Facebook post] I’ve spent most of my religious life agreeing with theologians that if Judgement Day exists, either for the world or for an individual, such a Day is terrible, something to be dreaded. How many of us see the end goal of faith or practice as some sort of escape,…
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The Law
Advertisements He said to them, “Therefore every teacher of the law who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.” – Matthew 13:52 NIV I thought of this as I compiled a table for thorough…
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The Evil(s) of Religion
Advertisements A friend of mine, who was a professor and director of plays in which I participated at the college I attended in the 1970s, posted on Facebook a black-and-white photograph of a happy woman in attractive attire cutting a birthday cake slice for herself. This woman lived, just a couple of years before the…
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Practice: What Makes It Perfect?
Advertisements DISCLAIMER: In what follows, I can tell that my Christian religious background heavily flavors the material and my perspective expressed therein. I have tried to make the focus more general, to turn it into a subject from which different followers of religious or spiritual traditions can benefit. But again, my thoughts are shaped by…
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A Belief/Unbelief System in Search of a Name
Advertisements What do you call someone who believes that everything that is genuinely real, is real regardless of what they (or anyone) believe? I.e., they do not believe that what/whether/how they believe has an influence on what truly exists. Because I sometimes think such a belief/non-belief system appeals to me intellectually, but there are still…
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My Answer to a Friend’s Question: When Did the War on Ignorance Become a War on Christianity?
Advertisements When scientific thought and mathematical logic became ways to perceive the world and demonstrate its principles reliably, I think some of those in power, who wanted to preserve increase their power and prosperity, but who also based that power and prosperity on deceiving or exploiting others, saw a danger in too much good thinking,…