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Holy Blasphemy is committed to embracing the entirety of the living experience, appreciating the noble humanity of all people, and respecting each individual’s personal relationship with divinity. Blasphemy is the practice of speaking out against dated religious customs and clearing the way to a fuller appreciation of truth, and is considered by us to [...]

How much fun is the Bible? A study by Dennis Hinks using an electronic Bible program, which involved compiling the search results for the word “fun” in eleven different translations, found that it isn’t much fun at all. Of course, nobody’s really claiming that the Bible is fun, or should be fun. However – it’s [...]

I like clothes. It’s a weakness, I suppose; I know I should be perfectly capable of living in the desert and wearing a loincloth… but as long as I’m in society and clothes seem to be pretty much the necessity of a functioning member, I occasionally indulge in a window shopping trip. This year (back [...]

On a church billboard near my parents’ house in Oregon I saw this sign:
“People use Duct Tape to fix everything. God used nails.”
I guffawed immediately – but then became sober as its many meanings sank in. God used nails? Ok – maybe if we accept that Jesus Christ had to die in sacrifice for the [...]

I found this incredible list of proofs for God on Facebook, posted by Andre Lessard (University of Ottawa). I can’t imagine the amount of hours that went into it. Read and enjoy!
Favorite ridiculous reasons people say god is real

TRANSCENDENTAL ARGUMENT, a.k.a. PRESUPPOSITIONALIST (I)
(1) If reason exists then God exists.
(2) Reason exists.
(3) Therefore, God exists.
COSMOLOGICAL [...]

The following parable explains the suffering in the world by comparing God to a barber.
A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed.
As the barber began to work,
they began to have a good conversation.
They talked about so many things and various subjects.
When they eventually touched on the subject of [...]

From Faith to History
“Before God and before Christ Jesus who is to be judge of the living and the dead, I charge you, in the name of his appearing and of his kingdom: proclaim the message and, welcome or unwelcome, insist on it.” 2 Timothy 4
Believing that Jesus Christ was a radically new kind of [...]

“Many were led astray by reading the allegorical contents of the scriptures literally in the method of the Pharisees and Sadducees” Eusebius, Ecclestical History
I believed in Santa Claus until I was nearly thirteen years old. Like my friends, I’d been brought up to think of him as a real person, who made his rounds on [...]

Finally we get to the crucial question: if Jesus was mythological, how and why did people ever start to imagine that he was a historical person? The answer is accidentally preserved in the biblical “Acts of the Apostles” and in the letters of Paul.
The New Testament is arranged to appear chronological: the four gospels present [...]

I just watched Barack Obama’s 30 minute infomercial and I find myself wondering – who will Christians vote for? What’s the ‘Christian’ thing to do?
Obama wants to take care of everybody, end poverty, improve health care and education, and end the war in Iraq. Needless to say he’s got my vote, but then I had [...]