Tag: religion
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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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Headings for a Non-Mathematical Paper in Progress
Advertisements It is, in fact, political. The Manipulation of a Nation How America’s Prosperous Established a De Facto Ruling Class, Corrupted Government and Politics, and Got Churches, Broadcasters, and Internet/Web Media to Help By J. Calvin Smith, jcsbimp.com Introduction: Where Are We, and How Did Manipulation Get Us Here? Some History: Manifest Destiny and the…
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Beware theocracy.
Advertisements Beware creeping theocracy that seems to have myopia toward the democratic dangers of plutocracy and oligarchy, or at least seems to equate money and power with Divine favor and the privilege of a weightier voice than that of the average human being in affairs of the State. Follow the money that pads the pockets…
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The Apostate Creed
Advertisements We believe in one God, the Father, Almighty, of all that is, seen and unseen, superior and inferior, favored and disfavored, supreme to govern and suitable for slavery. We believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, whose own religion, nationality, and ethnicity do not concern us very much, He being the Only Son of God,…
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Is Nothing Sacred? No, really, I’m actually asking…
Advertisements I have friends of many different religious faiths, and I want to ask you, my religious friends, a question that might seem strange: Are there forces, within the greater religious body in whom you practice your own faith, that seem to want to Run [insert religion here] Like a Business? I am asking because…
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“Higher Ground:” A Hymn About Enlightenment?
Advertisements No. Of course this hymn, sung frequently in the Fundamentalist Evangelical church I attended, a loyal body of believers in an accredited house of worship of the Southern Baptist Convention, and yet one that was small enough to be “The Friendly Little Church on the Hill,” – this hymn sung there so frequently is…