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[The Rational Response Squad -] On Myth, Sexuality, and Culture | The Rational Response Squad: This response, and the seemingly inevitable defeat of anyone who tries to argue against it, is clear evidence of just how strongly our myths can take hold, and how much of an impediment to critical thinking they can be. Once we examine what it is to be an animal, and how animals differ from each other, we will see that it's not only possible to be an animal and experience love, honor, duty, and beauty, it's actually impossible to think of it any other way.

[RELIGION] RELIGION Blog | The Dallas Morning News: While none of the autographs remains, the sheer volume of manuscripts (from tiny fragments to complete New Testaments)-5,000 in ancient Greek alone-far outstrips what we have for any other Jewish, Greek or Roman literature, where historians often consider themselves fortunate to have manuscripts numbering in double figures! The art and science of textual criticism enables scholars to date, classify, compare and contrast these documents where they differ and determine, with 97 to 99 percent accuracy, what the originals most probably contained.

[markdroberts: guest bloggers] markdroberts: guest bloggers: Did Some Disciples Take Notes during ...: To imagine any of these people going out with papyrus roll, pen and ink to take down the words of a traveling preacher would be absurd. To imagine some of them opening note-books they carried for their day-to-day business, perhaps hung at the belt, and jotting down a few key striking sayings that they had heard, or writing a summary of what they had experienced while it was fresh in the memory is quite feasible.

[Comments for Real Jew News] Neocon Jews & The Afghan Surge | Real Jew News: The empire in the first century had suffered a lot of earthquake damage what with Vesuvius erupting, so it would have been quite in character for him to have begun the work of rebuilding Palestine, Jerusalem and the Jewish temple. So, what happened, o Jewish World, did you plot for 15 years for an empire-wide revolt until the temple was built, and then when you had your political messiah and a mystical rabbi, raged into a Zionist insanity ready to conquer the world?

[New Jersey Real Estate Report] New Jersey Real Estate Report » Weekend Open Discussion - Part II: sybarite 262 Maybe we should tell that to the deeply religious men who founded our country.In GOD We Trust,where did I here that.WE are a Judeo/Christian nation they are our founding principales so that is what America is we don’t care what are people practic as religion you can worship satan if you like. But this doesn’t change what we were founded on, nor should it.So why is religion in gov so bad.

[BiblePlaces Blog] BiblePlaces Blog: Those Pottery Makers at Qumran: In general, your method (yes, we are still dealing with methodology) is to assume that Essenes lived at Qumran, and then attempt to explain the anamolies by inventing scenarios and pointing to things like the "necessity for outside support." Anyone living at the site would have required outside support, but the problem is that a thorough review of the data by a whole series of archaeologists (the Donceel team, Hirschfeld, and most recently the Magen and Peleg team) has shown there is no convincing reason to believe this is the place described by Pliny in the first place. No one, of course, is saying that the Qumran-Essene theory is entirely impossible, they're just saying that it doesn't account for the total configuration of evidence as well (i.e., in as economical and convincing a manner) as the Jerusalem theory: again, methodology.

[TitusOneNine] TitusOneNine - Fergus Kerr reviews Richard Swinburne’s Was Jesus God?: Once you evacuate the church of its central truth claims presumably you might maintain an interest if you happened to like seeing folks in neo gothic costume on a Sunday morning, or just liked meeting the people in your parish, or enjoyed hearing Victorian hymn tunes, or your significant other insisted you attend, or you think the church is of some benefit in society even if it’s truth claims are false, or....

[Bad Astronomy Blog] Science vs. Faith | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine: Well, if you knew me, you would be able to see my growth and development as a husband, father, friend, teacher, and student of the Word of God, and I could remain silent. Since you have asked for my answer, I will give just one example of what God has done in my life: Even a few short years ago, I could not have written this series of posts without becoming agitated and frustrated with what I viewed as “the insanity of disbelief”

[Comments for Open Source] Open Source » Blog Archive » Morality: God-Given or Evolved?: I found that ROS opinion on this subject is a microcosm of the prevailing opinions on DE (at least on the web.) E.g., if one doesnâ€â™t believe in DE then they are at best ignorant and at worst a Creationist or a fool (which are considered synonymous in the eyes of most Darwinists.) I naively believed that if an open-minded reasoning person examined the evidence for which DE cannot account, doubts would arise as DE being the correct interpretation of the origin of life and diversity and they would at least agree that itâ€â™s possible that DE may not be the answer. I find after researching the issue, that my original assertion that the main reason I believe that DE is the prevailing dogma is that C/ID is the only alternative.

[End Times Prophetic, Prophecy, Visions, Dreams, Revelation, Christian Blog] Once Saved, Always Saved? « End Times Prophetic, Prophecy, Visions ...: 14 But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, 15 and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

[Ironwolf] Ironwolf » Blog Archive » Ronald Weinland: Prepare (Again) To Meet ...: Is it just a coincidence that I’m here in your blog reading day after day at a time the most of you are asleep? Reading lovely encouraging posts from believers trying to convince you, a non-believer or atheist, to Christianity, inspite of the fact that it just seems impossible.

[How good is that?] Did Jesus Really Exist? « How good is that?: Well, if a supernatural cosmic God came to the settings of the Jesus stories, with the mission of teaching about and establishing himself, that would certainly be the proverbial very big fish in the very small pond, so any argument that such a God-human could have been there without leaving anything attesting to his existence (outside of the storybook we know him from) is essentially an argument against the divinity of that person or against his putative mission–either of which would negate crucial identifying qualities of Bible Jesus, as described. So if we don’t find evidence where there should be evidence, then either some parts of Jesus will have to be amputated, or his character will die a rational death from which he can only be resurrected by faith (a la Tinkerbell).

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