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,
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Fashion & Blasphemy
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
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God Used Nails
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
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Proof Spoof: 100 logical arguments and evidences that prove the existence of God
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. (I don’t know if there’s actually 100 – that’s a rough
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God the Barber
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
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Christ Myth: From Faith to History (15)
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
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Christ Myth: Promise of Flesh (14)
“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
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St. Paul and the ‘Stupid Galatians’ (13)
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
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Who would God vote for?
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
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Was Christianity a Pagan Mystery cult? (12)
A lot of the articles I’ve provided so far have been background information, which is indispensable for first becoming aware of the possibility of the mythological Jesus, and then developing the ability to recognize him within the available evidence. I
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Christ Myth: Snakes and Ladders (11)
In the last article we discovered how many creations myths include the icon of a serpent which divided the polarities – an idea inspired by the constellation Draco spinning over the north pole. In this article, I want to focus
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Where does evil come from? (10)
In the last section we examined how the basic biographical details of Jesus Christ can be traced to an ancient story about the sun. For many Christians, however, the biography of Jesus is not the important part anyway – it
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