I'd be amazed! So would my wife! We might need some marriage counseling. The kids would probably be puzzled, to say the least. I'm quite satisfied...
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I suspect it's more a case of attorneys are seen as partisan, which is their job, and judges are seen as neutral, which is their duty, albeit not...
The main reason the Gospel of Peter was rejected was because Bishop Serapion of Antioch and others thought it had a Docetic view of Jesus as...
I think you're misinformed. What you say about bathrooms doesn't apply to the whole building called the church--only to the sanctuary. Obviously,...
If "sin" is another name for immorality, I'd say it's a pervasive existing problem--Hitler's being an extreme example. I have a consequentialist...
I somehow doubt that happened.
The appropriate way to deal with trolls is to ignore them! Meagain has it right. Folks who visit our site to spew farfetched conspiracy theories...
The word arsenokoitai, which seems to be slang, possibly invented by Paul, is a compound of two words: arsen, meaning 'male,” and koite, meaning...
Who would that be? I take an historial-metaphorical approach to the Bible. The talking snake part is myth, or metaphor, which is a means of...
I live in Oklahoma, "Buckle of the Bible Belt" and MAGA country. Atheists aren't "dominant" anywhere in this state. The atheists I'm talking about...
That's probably prudent on their part, since religious folks are a sizeable majority and some of those are pretty militant. But in the atheist...
I think "militant" might be too strong to describe the atheists I know, who are angry, as I am, at many characteristics they associate with...
"The clearest Old Testament condemnation of male homosexual practice is in Leviticus, 18:22; 20:13, the latter including the death penalty for the...
I'm not an atheist, but I'm an unorthodox Christian who hangs out with atheists. "Christianity" comes in many forms, some of which are toxic. The...
Of course the original texts didn't condemn being "gay". The term "Gay" for homosexuals is a relatively recent word, going back to the mid-1950s....
How do we "know"? We don't, of course--if 'know" means certainty. Historians look at the evidence, such as it is, and make inferences--and revise...
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