What materialists take on faith is too reductive.
What materialists take on faith is too reductive.
I read the Gospels to get to know Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior. For a long time I would basically gloss over or outright reject the miracles in the story as legendary accounts, particularly the birth narratives. I wanted insight into he who “made our hearts burn” and sparked a faith that has lasted millenia. It seemed to me that miracles and such obscured who Jesus was: more ignorance from my post-Enlightenment indoctrination. I won’t make that mistake again.
Coates’ great post, Dishonesty Is The Seventh Killer App: You should read James Fallows’ takedown of Niall Ferguson deceptive case against a second Obama term. You should also read Andrew’s, and you should read Joe Weisenthal’s. But one thing to keep in mind is there is no real penalty for respectable lying in our world …
Any so-called Christian movement that inspires or coddles hatred is a debasement of the values Christ stood for and ultimately died for.
(Version 1.3) The God I believe in is hard to describe, at once inscrutable but very close to us on a personal and intimate level. The Jesuits “define” God thus: God–Various titles or names are given to the Mystery underlying all that exists–e.g., the Divine, Supreme Being, the Absolute, the Transcendent, the All Holy-but all …
Because I love Jesus.
That is the only real answer. The End…and The Beginning as well. Alpha and Omega.
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God is no joke on forgiveness. Withhold it at your peril.
I’ve read and heard atheist critics who claim that parents who are believers are “indoctrinating” their kids with their religion and this is an unfair, intellectual crime. Here is why not only is it stupid, it’s bad parenting.
Moral nihilism is evil. Just ask Biggie.