Category Archives: Faith

The Stork Is Real!

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It’s a Miracle! Can’t You See and Feel Her?

The Virgin Mary has been discovered on a griddle in a Las Palmas restaurant and has been attracting worshippers. This is the caption for the above photo:
Lucha Libre wrestlers Renegado and Mr. Tempest look at an image of the Virgin Mary said to have appeared on a griddle at Las Palmas restaurant in Calexico. “I follow [...]

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Holy Hand Sanitizer

The Catholic Diocese of Dallas’s churches are offering hand sanitizer to their attendees along with holy water. I guess they finally realized that holy water wasn’t good for anything but spreading sickness:
Church officials are also not going to offer the communal wine during Mass. During the service, parishoners accepting Holy Communion drink from the same cup.
It’s not [...]

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Christian Missionary Deconverted by Tribe

Daniel Everett was a Christian missionary who was de-converted while living among a Brazilian tribe he was trying to convert to Christianity.
The tribe had no creation myth. They didn’t believe that the world had been “made” at all. They didn’t talk or think of such things.
When he told them he had “found Jesus” after his step-mother [...]

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What’s Your Weirdest Belief?

Everyone has strange beliefs. What’s the strangest belief you have?
I generally try not to believe weird things. But my strangest belief is that someday we’ll be able to store our memories digitally and transfer them to other bodies (like our own, regrown). That is, if we survive that long!
So what’s yours?

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John Wesley, Social Activist and Witch-Hunter

by Lorette C. Luzajic
Part 2 of the Pillars of Faith series.
The Wesley Family
John Wesley was a social activist, evangelist, denouncer of “witchcraft” and a man who claimed he had raised the dead.
He was born an Anglican in 1703. The family lived in a rural village in England, where they were in the ministry, helping orphans [...]

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Why I Discarded Christianity

By Johnny Bradford
I write this essay almost thirty years from the day of my birth, married to a beautiful wife and the father of three amazing children, and consider how fortunate I am — fortunate not to have been born in Sub-Saharan Africa, or born during the Black Plague in the Middle Ages, or born [...]

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Questions for Ex-Muslims Answered

A number of you asked Mathurine questions about Islam from an ex-Muslim perspective. In a recent post, she answers questions like:

Do a lot of everyday people actually read the Koran?
How does the average Muslim view other religious viewpoints?
If a male martyr receives 72 female virgins in heaven upon death my question is, what does a [...]

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