Category: Faith
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If I Weren’t a Christian…
Most religions in America are used to dealing with attacks from non-believers. It’s a part of our heritage of free speech. Most of it, while insulting, is a small price to pay for that heritage. Occasionally it goes much further than insults and becomes criminal – defacing church property, arson, vandalism, etc. We’ve also become…
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Wednesday Open Comments
From Joe Carter (via Texpat): When Nothing Created Everything Throughout history people have been awed and thrilled by retellings of their culture’s creation story. Aztecs would tell of the Lady of the Skirt of Snakes, Phoenicians about the Zophashamin, and Jews and Christians about the one true God—Jehovah. But there is one unfortunate group—the children…
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The Last Prophet
The times are tense. A foreign power occupies the land; the local government seeks to balance the demands of the people with the demands of the occupiers, not doing particularly well in either effort. The religious authorities are split into factions that aren’t really getting along, while other religious groups stir up trouble for both…