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Mr. Deity and the Scripts

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Are We All Christians Now?

By VorJack
John Shelby Spong once joked that talking to moderate Christians is like watching someone play rummy: they know they have to discard something, but what? “I’ll get rid of the virgin birth, but I have to keep the resurrection. I’ll give up on the divinity of Jesus, but I need some way [...]

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Praying for Obama’s Death

Since Pastor Wiley Drake told the world he was praying for Obama’s death, he’s been trying to clarify what he means. You may think that he spends every hour of every day praying for Obama’s death. But he really only spends about 2% of his prayer time praying for the death of the US President:
“That [...]

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This Post Really Eats the Weasel

by VorJack
Biblical study is serious business, but sometime you just have to point and laugh.
Today’s reading is from the Epistle of Barnabas, a letter that was written somewhere between 80-120 CE. It was popular in its time, and managed to make it into the Codex Sinaiticus. It was attributed to Paul’s companion [...]

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Oldest Known Bible Goes Online

The Codex Sinaiticus is the oldest known Christian Bible, dated around 330 to 360 CE. That’s over 300 years after Jesus was said to be born — time enough, you’d think, for the “perfect Word of God” to have been ironed out. Not so:
Discovered in a monastery in the Sinai desert in Egypt more than [...]

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Pics or It Didn’t Happen

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Gov Sanford: King David Didn’t Resign, So Neither Will I

Oh the fundies and their biblical rolemodels. Gov Sanford is now looking to the great King David, adulterer, murderer, slaughterer of nations, and a “man after God’s own heart” as his new role model.
According to the Bible, King David committed adultery with Bathsheba and she conceived. David brought her husband back from war to sleep with his wife. But he wouldn’t, [...]

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Hey Phil, Shut Up!

Evangelist Phil Kidd has a message for women, and it’s “Hey Lady Shut Up!“:
In I Corinthians 14:34 we read, “Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak,- but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law”…. The Bible says everything that has [...]

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