Tag: Christianity
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Jesus Orders Burning People to Death
Even wonder why the Church was so fond of burning people to death? They were just following orders 🙂 I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are…
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Our Puritan Forefathers’ War on Christmas
The holiday season is here and that means it’s story time! We all know the story of the Pilgrims, right? The Pilgrims were English settlers who established the Plymouth Colony in 1620 after fleeing religious persecution back in England. The Pilgrims’ story plays a central theme in the history and culture of the United States.…
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The Christian Communist Manifesto
Hi, In the past, I’ve argued in that Karl Marx unfairly gets a bad reputation for simply writing down what most people already knew. Marx’s ideas on wage slavery, capital, exploitation, and private property were nothing new and are, in fact, centuries old. It’s time to read the writings of the True Levellers (a.k.a. Diggers)…
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Weinberg: “for good people to do evil — that takes religion”
Hi, Steven Weinberg is an American professor at the University of Texas at Austin and winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics. Weinberg gave a talk in April 1999 at the Conference on Cosmic Design of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C. Towards the end of his speech, Weinberg makes…
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The Many Christian Gospels NOT Approved by your Church
Hi, I wrote an article back in 2013 arguing that Christianity was created and defined by men in closed-door meetings in which I summarized the major Church meetings in chronological order. Please read The Many Councils of Christ: How Christianity was Created in Closed-door Meetings. I now want to write about the many gospels that were…
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John 3:16 Explained
Hi, I want to quickly explain John 3:16. Arguably, the most repeated verse of the New Testament. John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. What it actually means: God created himself to sacrifice himself…
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On Blasphemy, Free Speech and Religion
Lately, we’ve been hearing a lot about this trade-off between freedom of speech and freedom of religion like there is some kind of balance to be struck. I’d would like to make that case that this trade-off is completely false and that there is absolutely no balance to be struck. Freedom of speech never infringes…
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Jesus in Early Christian Art – Wizard Boy to Royal God!
Young, fresh-faced, boyish…The earliest images of Jesus look nothing like the Jesus we know today. And nothing like the Jesus in the Turin Shroud. Jesus, at first, is a happy, go-lucky character, curly haired and handsome. He was usually shown waving his wand around, performing remarkable miracles. What you never see in early Christian art…
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Art and Architecture of Early Christianity
Waldemar Januszczak shows how Christianity emerged into the Roman Empire as an artistic force in the third and fourth centuries. Early Christians had no art but practised in secret and Januszczak purports the Rotas Square found throughout the Roman Empire such as at Pompeii were early Christian symbols along with the fish and anchor. With…
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The Many Councils of Christ: How Christianity was Created in Closed-door Meetings
Christianity was created and defined by men in closed-door meetings. Below is a chronology of some important Councils which gave us the version of Christianity that we know today: Council of Elvira Council of Elvira (304) was the first written mandate requiring priests to be celibate. It also made laws with maintained the separation of Jews and…