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Two-sided Apologetics
Anyone can judge God by what is written in holy scriptures -- but there's a catch.
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A Letter to My Mother, Three Weeks In
A letter from a daughter to her mother on their fight over the revelation that the daughter no longer believes.
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More conservatives explain that marriage isn’t supposed to be about love or happiness
Last week, I wrote about how, in the face of the Supreme Court legalizing same-sex marriage, a lot of conservatives are becoming more open about the underlying argument behind all that hand-wringing about “traditional marriage”. Basically, their real concern is that people are going to stop seeing marriage as a miserable duty to be endured and instead start thinking that love, happiness, and companionship should be what marriage is about.
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Religious Trauma Syndrome: How some organized religion leads to mental health problems
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Hastily Written Ballot Initiative, Seeking To Ban Same-Sex Marriage, Would Make All Marriage Illegal
A proposed amendment to the Colorado constitution appears designed to eliminate same-sex marriages. Yet it is so broadly drafted that it would most likely eliminate marriage entirely in the state of Colorado.
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Atheist Debates - The Bible Doesn't Say That!
When addressing various doctrinal positions or claims associated with the Bible, some atheists over-reach...exaggerating or misrepresenting what the text says or which interpretation of that text is most likely accurate or common...and so do Christians. How do we address claims in the Bible when it's all a matter of interpretation and context?
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When thin-skinned Zoroastrians sue Snoop Dogg, we all lose
Members of India’s Parsi community are suing Snoop Dogg and others for featuring a Zoroastrian symbol in a new music video they’ve deemed “insensitive” to their faith. Whatever comes of this baseless lawsuit, free speech will suffer.
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Barton: God Opposes Retirement Because It 'Is A Pagan Concept'
Appearing on Kenneth Copeland's "Believer's Voice of Victory" television program today, David Barton declared that God opposes retirement because it is "a pagan concept."
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Endangered Speeches: Why It Matters (For All of Us) That Conservative Seminaries Are Firing Professors Over Theology
To learn science the obvious must be challenged, and frequently displaced. Scientists looking at religious studies sometimes marvel at how facile much of it seems. Some guy two millennia ago allegedly said something that has gone unchallenged ever since, and teaching that to students is called higher education?
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Congressman: Stop Worrying About Climate Change, Focus On Crimes Against Christians
Instead of climate change, Rep. Jeff Duncan said DHS should worry about "illegal aliens murdering beautiful innocent lives" and "folks who want to do great harm to Christians."
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Why Satanists Are Fighting America’s Restrictive Abortion Laws
The concept of "pro-abortion Satanists" sounds like the deranged fantasy of a particularly unimaginative conservative politician. They do exist, though, and they have a political agenda: Two weeks ago members of the Satanic Temple filed a federal suit against Missouri's harsh abortion restrictions, claiming such laws violate their First Amendment right to religious expression.
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Does belief that God is in control reduce support for government welfare?
There’s an enduring puzzle about religion and government, and it’s about what effect religions have on government welfare policies. That’s down to an intriguing observation: that more religious countries tend to have a weaker welfare state.
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10th July 1925 - Monkey Trial begins
In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called “Monkey Trial” begins with John Thomas Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.
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Three stupid questions
A pastor tells his flock three things to ask an atheist. You don’t even have to read it to know that a lot of stupidity will follow. But I’m game, give it a shot, believers, and ask me those three things — I’ll try to answer through the incredulity and laughter.
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Embryology and the Qur'an
The internet provides a vehicle for many to communicate their beliefs. Muslims have also taken to social media (like twitter) to proselytize for their religion. A popular tactic is to claim that the qur'an is filled with modern scientific knowledge. This seems to be a bizarre tactic. The Islamic world has not really been at the forefront of scientific discovery since, well, Copernicus worked out that the solar system was heliocentric before Muslim astronomers.
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Losing Faith in Religious Higher Education
Raised in an evangelical home. Published by evangelical publishers. Employed by an evangelical seminary and divinity school. That was my life until last year when — at the end of a long and difficult intellectual journey — I concluded I was actually a secular humanist and part of the growing demographic of Americans unaffiliated with a particular faith or church.
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Atheist Debates - Supernatural Causation
Many of the claims made by apologists hinge on the ability to confirm the existence of the supernatural and that the supernatural could serve as a cause for various effects. Is there any way to do this? Aren't many theists claiming to be little God-detectors?
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Beyond Belief '06 - Neil deGrasse Tyson First Talk
Neal deGrasse Tyson explains how religious belief has impacted human progress and scientific discovery over the centuries.
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I can recognize a bad argument when I see it
Shall I give you an example? Here’s one I’ve actually heard from atheists: “Christians don’t really believe in God, because the god idea is stupid. They only go to church because they’re afraid of death/need social reassurance/were brainwashed.” Another permutation of that is that since the god idea is stupid, the only people who believe in a god are the really stupid people.
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Why Don't Scientists Fear Hell?
"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."
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