If you found out that your employee was a child-molester, would you fire them? According to a new Supreme Court ruling, you may not be able to. Here’s the story: a woman is working for a church, but she develops
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God hates McDonalds: Should Christians be Vegetarians?
Seventh-Day Adventists in Loma Linda, California, are in a fight against fast food chain McDonalds. The reason: 50% of the town practices a form of Christianity that endorses a clean, healthy and vegetarian diet. In their defense, the town has
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Making sense of St. Anselm’s Ontological Argument: Why it’s infallible, and also meaningless.
I first encountered St. Anselm’s Proof of God during my undergraduate studies in philosophy and theology. I was at the time a struggling Christian, and there is a power and simplicity in Anselm’s logical proof of God’s existence that –
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Rick Perry is the AntiChrist: The Truth about Christian Politics
Rick Perry’s political agenda summed up in 30 seconds: no gays in the military, open celebration of Christmas and prayer in schools, end Obama’s “War on Religion” and restore America’s “Religious Heritage”. Shucks, that sounds pretty awesome for Christians. But
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Johnny Depp’s blasphemous new Christmas Carol with BabyBird: Jesus Stag Night Club
There are many reasons to love Johnny Depp; his stunning good looks, goofy movie roles or charming bad boy personality. But here’s another one: for his outspoken willingness to criticize religion and poke fun in places others dare not tread. Teaming
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The Lie of Satanism: Why Satanists Don’t Exist but Everyone is Afraid of them Anyway
This post is prompted by TWO Yahoo articles concerning Satanism posted within one week of each other. The first, titled “Women Slash Teen 300 Times During Satanic Sex Ritual” (source) is about two Milwaukee roommates accused of slashing and stabbing
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Obama, the Antichrist and the 2nd Coming of Jesus: White House Shooter Ortega-Hernandez
This week a student at Idaho State University, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, took some shots at the White House, apparently in an attempt to assassinate Obama, whom he saw as the AntiChrist. Soon after, the bizarre video he’d made as a
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All the Greatest Stories were Told in the Bible: King David vs. Leonardo di Caprio
King David (who first defeated Goliath, stole his sword, then become a violent kingly soldier) soaked in the blood of battle, one day happened to see his fellow warrior and friend Uriah’s wife Bathsheba bathe in her courtyard from the roof
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Was David and Goliath plagiarized from Homer’s Iliad?
Something interesting I discovered today was the link between the David and Goliath story and Homer’s Iliad. I’ve already come to understand how much of the Old Testament (especially the flood story, but there are others) were lifted from Sumerian
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Branding and marketing in religious illustration
Branding and marketing has become hugely important in today’s and competitive business environment. Companies have to find a way to stick in people’s minds, to generate an emotional response, to build trust and rapport. A name and a slogan just
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Which came first, Satan, Michael or Garuda? Christian and Hindu Religious Art
Prepare to be amazed. Today I’ve been looking for pictures of Satan, and pictures of Garuda, for two separate art projects. What I’d never before realized, however, is that medieval depictions of The Devil are basically direct copies of much
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9 reasons why I love Jesus, but don’t believe in him anyway.
I grew up on Bible stories and Christian ethics. To a large extent, I like the stories – Christian literature is pretty good story-telling, usually about a hero, who is brought low, then gets supernatural powers to triumph over his
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