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Today on a blog that discusses issues of spiritual abuse– the blog in question is directed to survivors of a high-control group that puts a lot of emphasis on finding God through physical suffering, righteous living, and other forms of legalism– a very interesting question was raised in this post: If you purposely choose to practice [...]
Good heavens! Rev. Bosco Peters of Liturgy.co.nz has gone and found it. It’s a St. Peter joke (you know, this guy dies and goes to the pearly gates and he meets St. Peter and St. Peter says….) that actually has good theology. Well, for a St. Peter joke. Have a gander: A man dies and goes [...]
A while ago, I was paging through the books at a Christian bookstore when I came across one called 101 Reasons You Can Believe: Why the Christian Faith Makes Sense. The author, Ralph O. Muncaster, presents an assortment of things that he believes point to the truth of Christianity. Some were [...]  “Are you looking for a sign from God? This is it.” — seen on too many church signs In the popular imagination, Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist “Church” probably deserve their status as the archetypal hateful ultra-fundamentalist spiritual abusers. (They’re the ones who popularized the infamous slogan, “God hates [anti-homosexual slur redacted]s.”) For reasons unfathomable [...]
by Eric M. Pazdziora Many different people believe that if you are a Christian you will go to heaven… If this is so, that means that Fred Phelps will go to heaven. When you consider that non-Christians don’t, that would mean that Phelps would go but not Princess Di and M. Gandhi. Is this fair? –J. M., [...]
I think I finally figured out what Christmas trees are really about. Not long ago on Revelife, an author brought up the subject of our friend Mr. Tannenbaum. Apparently, some folks try to appeal to Scriptures such as Jeremiah 10 to support the old canard that Christmas trees are pagan symbols that the church is adopting [...]
Now that Christmas is almost upon us, it is fitting that we turn our attention to the words of Christians who are doing their best to spread the message of their deeply cherished beliefs about the true meaning of this holiday season: “There is nothing Christian about Christmas. Sure, religion has tried to make [...]
A lot of people seem to read the Bible this way: [Note: that's apparently an actual book, oddly enough, but the following is not any kind of review or comment on it; I haven't read it and don't plan to.] God’s Little Instruction Book. Sounds pretty good, no? You want to know what [...]
As you know (Bob), I’m a big fan of offbeat theological statements that make you laugh, or stop and think, or preferably both at once. Sometimes you really have to go looking for them. Other times they’re on the comics page. Here are three. 1. Pearls Before Swine on factions and spiritual abuse: 2. 9 Chickweed Lane on a [...]
Last night I saw something I’d only heard about before. It was a bumper sticker bearing the famous slogan… “He Who Has The Most Toys When He Dies, Wins!” I’d heard it before, of course, as an example of the futility of materialism. (My favorite counter-slogan: “He who dies with the most toys is still dead.”) So [...] |
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