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Daily Archives: April 9, 2009
If You Can Take a Comma Out of the Middle of the Bible, You Might Just as Well Put a Question Mark at the End!
Perhaps you’ve heard this saying: If you can take a comma out of the middle of the Bible, you might just as well put a question mark at its end. Well, over the past two centuries, science, archeology, and critical … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, archeology, Christianity, doubt, evolution, faith, Jesus, philosophy, psychology, religion, science, the Bible
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Mental Health Break: “I’d Say You’ve Had Enough!”
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Tagged beans, blazing saddles, comedy, food, life, mel brooks, mental health break, psychology
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On the Far Right, Ann Coulter and Mitt Romney Are Not Conservative Enough!
And you thought Rush Limbaugh was KRayZeee. Here are some second tier far-right radio and internet media broadcasters laying in on Ann Coulter and Mitt Romney. This is what the Republican Party has become, and has to contend with, to … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, ann coulter, Ayn Rand, conservative, feminism, gay marriage, gay rights, Jesus, mitt romney, Republican party, rush limbaugh, women's rights
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EXISTENTIALIST CHRISTIANITY IN THE 21st CENTURY: Four Things That Every Honest Christian Must Face, Sooner or Later
It seems to me that every honest Christian living in the 21st century must, sooner or later, come up against four “truths”—and a question that must then be digested. Here are the four truths: There is no hell The Bible is … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, biblical inerrancy, Christianity, evolution, fundamentalism, hell, inerrancy, James Dobson, Jesus, John Macarthur, modernism, the Holocaust
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Quote of the Day
In 1837, George Sand wrote: We cannot tear out a single page of our lives, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. I would qualify Sand’s observation by noting that many people are actually quite good at … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, death, existentialism, george sand, Jean-Paul Sartre, life, memory, philosophy, psychology, suicide
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Why Are There TEN COMMANDMENTS (and Not, Say, Fifteen)?
Mel Brooks has a theory:
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Tagged apologetics, Christianity, Exodus, Hebrew Bible, hypothesis, Jesus, mel brooks, Moses, Old Testament, religion, ten commandments
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From Liberty Bonds to Bailout Bonds?
The NY Times says that Barack Obama is contemplating letting small individual investors in on the bank bailout—wedding Main Street to Wall Street. Like a mutual or bond fund, you would buy shares, perhaps for as little as a few … Continue reading
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Tagged bailout, economy, Great Depression, Great Depression 2.0, main street, recession, Russia, The Great Gatsby, wall street
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