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  • Christian Twitter post

    02/29/2024 12:04:00 PM PST · by circlecity · 63 replies
    To mybou ^ | 02/29/2024 | Tommyboy
    I posted this on Twitter. It is driving the atheists crazy
  • Pope Francis Calls for Greater Dialogue and Cooperation Between Christians, Marxists

    01/13/2024 6:14:22 PM PST · by Bogle · 36 replies
    National Catholic Register ^ | 1/12/2024 | Matthew Santucci
    "The Pope argued that 'solidarity is not only a moral virtue but also a requirement of justice, which calls for correcting the distortions and purifying the intentions of unjust systems, not least through radical changes of perspective in the sharing of challenges and resources among individuals and among peoples'.”
  • 1697: Thomas Aikenhead

    01/08/2024 4:10:38 PM PST · by CheshireTheCat · 2 replies
    ExecutedToday.com ^ | 8 January, 2008 | Headsman
    On this date in 1697, Scottish medical student Thomas Aikenhead was hanged on the road from Edinburgh to Leith for blasphemy, an already-archaic punishment inflicted for what reads like headstrong youthful atheism of a decidedly garden variety. Aikenhead partook of the times’ emerging (albeit forbidden) store of humanist and skeptical literature, and chatted most unguardedly with University of Edinburgh “friends” who tattled to authorities to the extent that, not content with testifying against him, one published a pamphlet demanding the offender “atone with blood, the affronts of heaven’s offended throne.” Said authorities scarcely elevated the dignity of the temporal throne...
  • The Cross and the Machine

    12/28/2023 4:03:18 PM PST · by Twotone · 2 replies
    TheFreePress.com ^ | December 25, 2023 | Paul Kingsnorth
    We must have been fifteen or sixteen when we discovered the church visitor’s book. It was an old church, maybe medieval, and I would pass it with my school friends on our way to the town center. I’m not sure what possessed us to go in; it might have been my idea. I’ve always loved old churches. For a long time, I would tell myself that I liked the sense of history or the architecture, which was true as far as it went. Like the narrator in Philip Larkin’s poem “Church Going,” I would venture into any church I found,...
  • commentary on xunzi's "discourse on heaven"

    12/24/2023 10:29:04 AM PST · by FarCenter · 2 replies
    One of the key contrasts between the various classical Chinese thinkers is what to make of Heaven (天). For Confucius, Heaven is the source of moral virtue and an ideal to emulate in human conduct. By and large, he concerns himself with human affairs: self-cultivation, education, and good rule. But Heaven has a will on Earth, personality and intent, and what is good in men flows down from Heaven. As the Master says, "How great was Yao as a ruler! So majestic! It is Heaven that is great, and it was Yao who modeled himself upon it" (Analects 8.19). Mengzi...
  • Video Debate: Atheist SCHOOLED On The Authenticity Of The Gospels With Epic Ending!

    12/22/2023 1:36:17 AM PST · by spirited irish · 14 replies
    PatriotandLiberty ^ | 12/23 | The Book Ministries
    Frank Turek debates an atheist on whether or not the Gospels were written by the disciples. The atheist claims that they were not and believes he has ample evidence to prove his point but Frank Turek demonstrates that everything the atheist claims his misinformation. This debate comes to a head as the kid refuses to accept defeat, as Frank employs the very thing the kid was claiming to dismiss!
  • Video: Who Created God?

    12/18/2023 1:29:30 AM PST · by spirited irish · 30 replies
    PatriotandLiberty ^ | 12/23 | Dr. Don Batten
    ‘Who created God?’ is an age-old question. Children sometimes ask it because they’re curious. But atheists more commonly ask it because they think it is a ‘gotcha’ question for Christians.So, is it really a ‘gotcha’ question? Does God—like everything else in the universe—need a cause? Or have atheists made an error in logic in assuming this?As Dr Don Batten explains, ‘Who created God?’ has a simple, logical answer—so Christians have no need to be intimidated! On the other hand, atheists have some explaining of their own to do when it comes to first causes!
  • “They are PSYCHOPATHS” Former Democrat Exposes Party’s Evil Past (Video)

    11/22/2023 12:02:14 AM PST · by Boomer · 18 replies
    YouTube Interview ^ | 11.21.23 | Stephen Gardner
    Stephen Gardner update. The interview features Vince Ellison, who argues that the Democratic Party is actively trying to turn America into a Marxist nation. He claims they are evil, supporting things like atheism, Marxism, abortion, open borders, and drug trafficking. Ellison states they have a long history of trying to legally murder Americans, dating back to supporting slavery and later abortion. Ellison also discusses the history of racism and the Ku Klux Klan, arguing they were connected to the Democratic Party, not the Republicans. He explains how the Democrats have kept black communities poor and under their control. The discussion...
  • Speaker Johnson: Separation of church, state ‘a misnomer’

    11/14/2023 4:06:15 PM PST · by Texan4Life · 52 replies
    The Hill ^ | 11/14/23 | Lauren Sforza
    “Separation of church and state … is a misnomer. People misunderstand it,” Johnson said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” when asked about him praying on the House floor. “Of course, it comes from a phrase that was in a letter that Jefferson wrote is not in the Constitution.” “And what he was explaining is they did not want the government to encroach upon the church, not that they didn’t want principles of faith to have influence on our public life. It’s exactly the opposite,” the Speaker added.
  • Megan Rapinoe says championship injury 'proof' there isn't a god

    11/12/2023 9:56:55 PM PST · by DeathBeforeDishonor1 · 112 replies
    Fox ^ | 11/13/23 | Ryan Gaydos
    U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe did her best to laugh off an injury she suffered in the final match of her career on Saturday. Rapinoe went down in the sixth minute as OL Reign lost to Gotham FC in the National Women’s Soccer League Championship on Saturday night. Rapinoe said she believed she tore her Achilles. In the post-match press conference, Rapinoe said she was going to get the "Aaron Rodgers treatment" to try and recover from the injury. She said she’d reach out to him or whoever did his surgery. "I’m not a religious person or anything and if...
  • Auburn coaches’ role in prayer event draws fire from atheist group

    09/23/2023 5:26:15 AM PDT · by Roman_War_Criminal · 18 replies
    Washington Times ^ | 9/21/23 | Mark A. Kellner
    An atheist advocacy group is attacking state-owned Auburn University for the role three of its coaches played in an evangelical Christian worship event at the Alabama school last week. The “Unite Auburn” event on Sept. 12 was held in the school’s Neville Arena, with the rent funded by private donations. About 200 students were baptized after the event in a small lake on campus, illuminated by automobile headlights. Auburn football coach Hugh Freeze, who formerly helmed the squad at Liberty University, the nation’s largest evangelical Christian school, baptized one of his players that night.
  • If God is all powerful, then why can’t he stop evil from happening? That would mean he’s not all powerful. If God refuses to prevent evil, then he can not be all good. So can a Christian explain how God is all powerful and good in this case?

    09/03/2023 10:10:00 AM PDT · by daniel1212 · 571 replies
    Quora.com ^ | 9/3/2023, | Daniel1212
    Certainly that logical fallacy, a superficial ignorant parroted polemic (such as invokes everything from the Flood to AIDS as a moral argument against God), can be answered.There simply is no contradiction btwn God being omnipotent (and omniscient) and all good (from whom all good has come, as the creator of an exceedingly vast, systematicity ordered universe, exquisitely fine-tuned for our physical life), and the allowance of evil,For unless you want a world in which mankind is like a cloud or a robot, then allowing evil is a necessary good if:Man is to be a being with the ability to make...
  • Human origin story may need rewriting after discovery of 8.7-million-year-old fossil

    08/24/2023 11:38:57 PM PDT · by zeestephen · 50 replies
    Daily Express US (via MSN.com) ^ | 24 August 2023 | Ian Randall
    Prof. Begun said: "Our findings further suggest that hominines [bonobos, chimpanzees, and gorillas] not only evolved in western and central Europe - but spent over five million years evolving there and spreading to the eastern Mediterranean before eventually dispersing into Africa."....This migration, he added, was "probably a consequence of changing environments and diminishing forests."
  • Biden State Department caught promoting atheism abroad

    08/13/2023 6:10:56 AM PDT · by CFW · 24 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 8/12/23 | Monica Showalter
    The Biden administration is out promoting religion through the State Department door to the locals in other countries, on our taxpayer dime. That right there is illegal, because the First Amendment states that there is to be no state sponsorship of anybody's religion. What religion is it? Why, the religion of Democrats, which generally speaking, is atheism. According to Susan Crabtree at RealClearPolitics: "Rep. Mike McCaul, a Texas Republican who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican who heads the panel’s human rights subcommittee, are reviving a nearly year-long inquiry into a 2021...
  • (Video) Homosexual Atheist WEF Adviser Suggests AI Will Write ‘New Bible,’ Found ‘Correct’ Religions

    06/15/2023 10:24:51 AM PDT · by spirited irish · 91 replies
    PatriotandLiberty ^ | 6/14/23 | Stephen Kokx
    World Economic Forum (WEF) senior adviser Yuval Noah Harari has made the stunning claim that in the not-too-distant future, artificial intelligence may create a “correct” world religion.“Throughout history, religions dreamt about having a book written by a superhuman intelligence, a non-human entity,” he said. “In a few years, there might be religions that are actually correct. Just think about a religion whose holy book is written by an AI. That could be a reality in a few years.”
  • No One Participates in Politics More than Atheists, Even White Evangelicals

    05/18/2023 5:09:13 AM PDT · by untenured · 32 replies
    Graphs About Religion ^ | May 16, 2023 | Ryan Burge
    The last forty years of politics and religion has been focused squarely on the ascendancy of the Religious Right. I must admit that I’ve probably contributed my fair share to that discourse, as well. A motley crew of white evangelicals and traditional Catholics locked arms on some social issues, started voting in large numbers for Republican candidates, and changed American politics forever. But I think that era of religion and politics is rapidly coming to a close. The Religious Right is no longer a primarily religious movement - it’s one about cultural conservativism and nearly blind support for the GOP...
  • Who created God? It’s An Illogical Question

    05/13/2023 2:12:01 AM PDT · by spirited irish · 55 replies
    PatriotandLiberty ^ | 2023 | Don Batten
    Atheists frequently pose this question to justify their disbelief. Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), a famous British philosopher, in his influential little essay, Why I am not a Christian, put this forward as his first objection.1 Today’s atheists repeat the objection, including Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion) and Australia’s own Philip Adams at the 2010 Global Atheists’ Congress in Melbourne Australia, who said,“The great argument for God was that there had to be a Creation, a beginning. … But my objection was simple. If God was the beginning who began God?”2
  • Unbiblical Christianity and its dangers: This flavor of Christianity is indistinguishable from atheism!

    03/16/2023 6:51:13 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 55 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 03/16/2023 | Oscar Amaechina
    There are many Christians today whose faith is not firmly rooted in the Word of God. Some of them practice Christianity that is based on their culture and societal trends in which they find themselves. The Word of God is seldom applied to their lives and whenever it does, it’s always twisted to suit their needs or wants. Even some preachers have become selective in what they choose to include in their public teachings from Scripture. They tell people only what they want to hear and ignore the parts of the Bible that upset the hearers. Biblical Christianity relies on...
  • Do Not Take Part In Lies; Never Take Part In Evil

    03/04/2023 1:47:28 AM PST · by spirited irish · 10 replies
    PatriotandLiberty Blog ^ | Mar. 2023 | Linda Kimball
    According to the authors of “The Black Book of Communism,” Communist regimes did not just commit criminal acts but were criminal enterprises in their very essence:“…all ruled lawlessly and without regard for human life (and) one particular feature of many Communist regimes (was) their use of famine as a weapon. The Bolsheviks had decided to eliminate…any challenge or resistance, even if passive, to their absolute power. This strategy applied not only to groups with opposing political views, but also to such social groups as the nobility, the middle class, the intelligentsia…the clergy…military officers and the police.” (pp. xvii, 8-9)
  • Dr. Hugh Ross and Bart Ehrman: A Christian turned atheist vs. atheist turned Christian

    02/25/2023 7:58:10 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 92 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 02/25/2023 | Dan Delzell
    Could two highly intelligent men with two entirely different perspectives possibly help you come to your own personal conclusion concerning the central figure of history? Perhaps. Let’s find out. History’s central figure, of course, is Jesus Christ. And the two men I have in mind are American New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman and Canadian astrophysicist Hugh Ross. Ehrman professed faith in Christ as a teenager but is now an atheist; whereas Ross grew up in a non-religious home but is now a Christian. One man abandoned Christianity, while the other embraced it. Ross said, “I didn’t know any Christians or...