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MAY 22, 2018 BY MATTHEW DISTEFANO Although I no longer engage in theological discussions on Facebook all that often, I still get into it with folks from time to time. What I find fascinating is the level of certainty with which many Christians approach whatever topics are being discussed. Especially confounding is how many of these […]
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BY VAL WILDE MARCH 20, 2020 While the rest of us practice social distancing — even the Vatican has canceled live gatherings for the foreseeable future, despite Easter’s rapid approach — Baton Rouge Pastor Tony Spell (below) continues to hold live gatherings for hundreds of believers, encouraging them to “keep going to church” in defiance of a state order that says […]
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JANUARY 18, 2020 BY CAPTAIN CASSIDY Man alive, ain’t nothing more entertaining to me than watching Christians argue about doctrine. And their slapfights around the Toronto Blessing (TTB) might be some of the best reality-TV the religion’s had in recent memory. This whole thing happened decades ago, but they’re still not ready to make nice–even at the […]
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JANUARY 5, 2020 BY RFR By Amy Marie Ayres — I was a 22-year-old single female living in Southern California. The worst thing you could say about me is that I smoked a lot of pot. I didn’t have a heavy-drinking problem, I wasn’t into hard drugs, I wasn’t sexually promiscuous, but I often felt like a […]
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Just look at the symptoms. What is the one thing that Religion wants to spread the most? They want us all to know that we are all sinners, the world is ending, God is all powerful, our lives will be terrible without him, and that in order to be saved we must submit to the […]
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By Ray Sanchez, CNN Updated 4:15 PM ET, Sat January 4, 2020 (CNN)United Methodist Church leaders are proposing a split into more than one denomination in a bid to resolve years of debate over LGBT clergy and same-sex weddings, according to the church’s official news agency.The proposal, from a 16-member group of bishops and church leaders, says […]
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NOVEMBER 19, 2019 BY MICHAEL STONE Cheering for Armageddon: Evangelicals cheer after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announces that Israeli settlements on the West Bank no longer violate international law. NPR reports: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday the Trump administration’s latest pro-Israel change in U.S. policy, saying the State Department is rescinding a […]
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NOVEMBER 21, 2019 BY MICHAEL STONE Separation of Church and State FTW: New findings released by the Pew Research Center show that a majority of Americans want religion to stay out of politics and believe that it is wrong for churches to endorse political candidates. Pew Research Center reports: U.S. adults are resoundingly clear in their belief […]
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Christopher Hitchens Ripping Islam Apart is a compilation video of some amazing moments of our beloved and dearly missed Christopher Hitchens. Christopher Eric Hitchens was an author, columnist, essayist, orator, religious and literary critic, social critic, and journalist. Hitchens was the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of over 30 books, including five collections of essays […]
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DEC. 12, 2019, AT 6:00 AM By Daniel Cox and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux Millennials have earned a reputation for reshaping industries and institutions — shaking up the workplace, transforming dating culture, and rethinking parenthood. They’ve also had a dramatic impact on American religious life. Four in ten millennials now say they are religiously unaffiliated, according to the Pew Research Center. In fact, millennials (those […]
