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Blimey
5 days ago
by Porter Doran
“Blimey!”, that favorite crow of fictional Londoners, derives from the ancient blasphmers’ prayer, “God blind me!” I thought today how many are making this supplication in churches all over the land.
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Fly it high
51 days ago
by Porter Doran
What is the Evangelicalist religious symbol? It is not a headdress, like the Sikh’s. It is not a saffron robe, like the religious Buddhist’s. I began to think of this today as I read a newsstory. A cashier at a Home Depot store in Georgia was — cashiered for wearing a button that said: One Nation [. ...
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Comma
51 days ago
by Porter Doran
I think it is the most important comma in the history of the universe; it can be found in the so-called Apostle’s Creed: “I believe in God, the Father Almighty, the Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord: Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin [...]
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The nine-year-old …
62 days ago
by Exoristos
“The nine-year-old boy lay on a bloodstained hospital sheet crawling with ants, staring blindly at the wall. “His family pastor had accused him of being a witch, and his father then tried to force acid down his throat as an exorcism. It spilled as he struggled, burning away his face and eyes. The em ...
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‘The Fundamentals’
62 days ago
by Porter Doran
Today I was browsing Eugene’s little basement used–theology-and-philosophy–book dealer — Windows Booksellers, it’s called — and came across a like-new set of the original printing of The Fundamentals. I’ve read the Table of Contents online and read excerpts here and there, but this was the real arti ...
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I.xxix
86 days ago
by Epiktetos
… Only let me not give up my life irrationally, only let me not give up my life faintheartedly, or from some casual pretext. For again, God does not so desire; for he has need of a good universe and of good men to go to and fro upon earth. … What then? Must I explain [...]
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Gordon Brown urges voters not to back BNP
200 days ago
by tomgandl
Gordon Brown has urged voters not to back the British National Party in Thursday’s Euro and local elections. It comes amid fears that the BNP could gain extra seats by capitalising on the public backlash over the MPs’ expenses scandal. In an article backing a Daily Mirror campaign, he writes: “If pe ...
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Pop quiz
721 days ago
by Porter Doran
Match the evangelistic pitch to its denomination: 1. If nothing otherworldly happens in your worship service, then the other world must not approve of it, and you must join our church. 2. If you read and find these stories of prehistoric America credible, then you must join our church. 3. If you do ...
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