11 hours ago by Bruce Gerencser

Steve S asked me: How do you view sex today compared to how you viewed sex as an IFB? What changed that? I was an Independent Fundamentalist Baptist (IFB) pastor from 1976 to 1990, about 15 years. When I adopted Calvinism as my theological foundation I cut the ties (or they were cut for me) with the ...

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12 hours ago by Andrea Elizabeth

In the previous post I linked to the video on the website, Closer to Truth, “Why is consciousness so mysterious?”. The lecturer did not believe in the notion of self as a credible identifying source of reality. His examples regarded music, color, humor. He thinks the value of the components of each ...

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12 hours ago by Vivacia

God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - Christopher Hitchens - 2007 (Kindle 2011 version reviewed) - 320 pages In light of his recent death I thought I'd finally get round to reading this book from Hitchens, written at a time when I was a bit disgusted (to put it mildly) with his support ...

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15 hours ago by Andrea Elizabeth

Just caught a rerun of this new-to-me series on consciousness on pbs this morning. I guess consciousness is a key issue in the debate on the origins of the universe. One thing Orthodoxy does is it makes you doubt more your own perceptions of things, making it easier to understand some of the atheist ...

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16 hours ago by sabepashubbo

I recently discussed the problem of evil, which is a popular topic of debate between theists and atheists. For those unfamiliar, the general notion is that if God exists, why is there evil or suffering the world? Surely God could have created a world without evil, because He is all-powerful and all- ...

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18 hours ago by YaZeenikSakit

over the centuries, man has asked himself the same old question over and over again: where is God? or to some, Who is God? civilizations have answered that question by Religions, Stories, Myth..etc, some tend to forget all about it with time, perhaps loses hope of finding the allmighty intity, but t ...

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1 day ago by umm-abdillah

"Whoever worshipped Muhammed, Muhammed has died. Whoever worshipped Allah, Allah is Alive, and death does not touch Him." Abu Bakr As-Sideeq The 'behead him' response to 23 year old Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari's tweets remind me of a mechanical Salem witch hunt. If only the Saudi government coul ...

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1 day ago by Andy

This is an email I shot off to the head of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. I wrote a post two days ago concerning Martin Luther's opinion on the Jews. To Rev. Dr. Matthew C., President of the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church, As an American and a father of two young children I was shocked ...

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1 day ago by Daniel Florien

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1 day ago by Nicci Weasley

This is an atheist rant. You have been warned. When I wrote it, I was angry, annoyed, and provoked. Hence, the extreme amounts of all caps. I had decided not to post this, but now I did post it. Remember - angry rant! Not everything that comes out during a rant makes sense. Also, I can't be bothered ...

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