Tag: Christian Mythology
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How The Bible SHOULD Have Been Written
(Note: one in a continuing series). Today’s Episode ADAM & EVE: The Scene: God says he created everything including Adam and a nice place (the Garden Of Eden) for him to live in. He’s filled the garden with fruits and vegetables and animals – everything Adam might want. “It’s all yours, kid,” God tells Adam,…
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Religion Has, At Best, A Dysfunctional Relationship With Reason
I’ll own the broad brush right up top. Not all religions struggle with reason. Some really do want to understand what makes us and the world tick (Buddhism focuses on human suffering and misery rather than getting its followers to behave themselves). How did the universe get here and what is the point of it…
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Anti-Semitism Will Endure Until The Last Christian Stops Thinking “The Jews Killed Jesus”
I’m biased, so excuse me, but blood libels are flat out stupid. Blood libels based on invented stories? The stupidest of all. And, it turns out, the deadliest. It’s hard to describe to a Christian — even Christian friends — what that experience is like. For starters, my tribe has NEVER declared war on their…
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How The Bible SHOULD Have Been Written
(Note: one in a continuing series). Today’s Episode ADAM & EVE: The Scene: God says he created everything including Adam and a nice place (the Garden Of Eden) for him to live in. He’s filled the garden with fruits and vegetables and animals – everything Adam might want. “It’s all yours, kid,” God tells Adam,…
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This Atheist Has No Quarrel With Jesus; It’s Christians I Have Issues With…
Growing up Jewish in a mostly Christian world (here in America, back in the 60’s) was like living inside a giant non-sequitur. Growing up in the shadow of the Holocaust (I was born in 1959, 14 years after the camps were liberated) added extra non-sequitur-iness. My tribe was hated to the point of genocide by…
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American Christianity Has Turned Itself Into A Death Cult That Would Have Horrified Jesus
Though I am a hard core (I’d even say devout) atheist, I consider myself a “fan of Jesus”. I don’t know for certain if Jesus actually existed (at present, no one can prove that he did, but, I suspect someone vaguely like him did exist — heavy emphasis on the word “vaguely”) but even a…
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Show Me A Person Who Claims To “Speak For God” & I’ll Show You A Person Who Thinks They ARE “God”
This really should be a no-brainer. Ask ten theists what “God” is & you will get ten distinctly different answers. Ask 10 ardent theists — evangelicals, say — what “God” is and, if you listen really closely, what you’ll get is a person describing themselves. The absolutes and the moral imperatives heavy with the weight…
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The More A Person Loves Their Church, The Less Spiritual They Seem To Be
I bet that lights a few fires. First, let’s define “church”. We can’t define it the way Jesus would have defined it because Jesus never imagined “churches”. He was born, lived and died a Jew. He knew from temples. And — if you recall — Jesus preached AGAINST the temple and the temple authorities. They…
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The Most Frustrating Thing About Anti-Semitism Is What It’s Based On: NOTHING
I’ve said here before that I grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust — in a Jewish suburb of Baltimore just 20 years after the camps were liberated. Many survivors lived in my community. I can tell you from experience — it’s damned hard for a little kid to wrap his young mind around…