Tag: christianity
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Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?
Give to me to read by my friend, Ken Kelly. Bad to time to be a materialist! The new atheists ended up being a lot like the fundamentalist Evangelicals. Both have lost ground to the Religion of Politics. Page 276 It’s a mistake to assume (as many people seem to do) that if something doesn’t…
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The Church Better Start Taking Nazification Seriously
“We have a choice. The Bible will not sit alongside Mein Kampf. The cross will not yield to the swastika. We must ask right now: Jesus or Hitler? We cannot have both.” What an unfortunate reality the American church, and evangelical movement specifically, will need to be confronting now. I remember reading a decent amount of…
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Real and Symbolic Power
In a recent group discussion at church, Pope Francis’s death came up. We seemed to agree, spoken and unspoken, that he was a good man. A different kind of pope. His papacy was one that restored and reordered the Catholic church. Perhaps the church catholic too. He emphasized those things which are commanded unto us…