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Gods Are Everywhere Because It’s Hard to Bargain With Them

Via: don-overton • Religion & Ethics • 173 Comments • 5 years ago

Why do so many people worship invisible beings, accept the authority of millennia-old texts, or or congregate on weekends in buildings for no apparently practical reason? The cognitive and...

Ex-Atheist Dr. Sarah Salviander Destroys Atheism with One Tweet

Via: donald-trump-fan1 • Religion & Ethics • 81 Comments • 5 years ago

If you're unfamiliar with Dr. Sarah Salviander, I encourage you to make her acquaintance. She's a Christian apologist, takes the Genesis creation account literally (although she's not a young...

Notorious Mormon Gay Conversion Therapist Now Says He Just Wants to Date Men

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 22 Comments • 5 years ago

The more vocally anti-gay you are, the greater the odds you harbor same-sex desires. I don’t know if that’s an internet law, but it should be. The latest example of that hypocrisy is David...

Playing God

By: johnrussell • Religion & Ethics • 427 Comments • 5 years ago

Tragedy struck in Florida as three young children ( six, four, and one years old) died inside a refrigerator that had been left open in a back yard. Contrast this horrible event with the...

Half of US Christians Have No Idea What The Great Commission Is

Via: don-overton • Religion & Ethics • 0 Comments • 5 years ago

According to Barna Research, over half of American Christians have never heard of the Great Commission, and over 37% of those polled couldn’t identify the Great Commission out of a list of various...

Christian lawyer wants LGBT excluded from anti-lynching bill.

Via: epistte • Religion & Ethics • 16 Comments • 5 years ago

For more than a century, there have been a number of unsuccessfully attempts in the US to make lynching a federal crime. Well, success was at last attained last December when the Justice for...

I Can’t Believe It’s 2019 and We’re Still Arguing About the Birth Control Benefit

Via: don-overton • Religion & Ethics • 67 Comments • 5 years ago

The Trump administration is attempting to torpedo the birth control benefit under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by issuing regulations that render it utterly toothless. These regulations, which...

Lord, Execute Judgment Against the New Pharaohs and Their New Pagan Gods

Via: donald-trump-fan1 • Religion & Ethics • 2 Comments • 5 years ago

Jews around the world tomorrow hear Parsha Bo (Exodus 10:1 to 13:16) declaimed in the synagogue, recounting the last of the biblical plagues, the killing of Egypt’s first-born, and our midnight...

Theology That Builds Walls

Via: don-overton • Religion & Ethics • 1 Comments • 5 years ago

Donald Trump would not be fixated on building a wall on the southern border of the United States if this were not the issue that won him the presidency and gave him the most visceral connection to...

Netanyahu to Christians: 'Prophesies are being realized'

Via: donald-trump-fan1 • Religion & Ethics • 114 Comments • 5 years ago

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a Christmastime message to believers around the globe that prophesies from Scripture are coming true today as he shared his gratitude to Christians...

Here’s What (Some) Religious People Get Wrong About Atheists

By: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 285 Comments • 5 years ago

Why Are Some Catholics “Militarizing” their Faith?

Via: don-overton • Religion & Ethics • 1 Comments • 5 years ago

Okay, dear readers, it’s time we had a talk about cultural appropriation. No, I’m not talking about what you think I am; I’m talking about Catholic men who get all excited about comparing...

Conservatives Claim Religious ‘Hostility’ When They Face Consequences for Refusing to Use Students’ Pronouns

Via: don-overton • Religion & Ethics • 148 Comments • 5 years ago

W]e are here today because a specific worldview is being imposed upon me,” said West Point High School French teacher Peter Vlaming at a public hearing in early December. In fact, Vlaming was at...

The Christmas story starts and ends with a tree

Via: mbfc-is-censorship-tool • Religion & Ethics • 36 Comments • 6 years ago

A family who was going to go out of town for Christmas loaded up their SUV with their luggage, took the dog over to a neighbor’s house, entered the coordinates in their GPS and had even recorded a...

'Love has no borders': Arizona man fulfills Christmas wish list for Mexican girl who sent it by balloon

Via: perrie-halpern • Religion & Ethics • 10 Comments • 6 years ago

By Janelle Griffith It was a Christmas wish that crossed international borders. An Arizona man fulfilled the Christmas list of an 8-year-old girl in Mexico whose letter to Santa reached him by...

'Silent Night' is 200 years old this Christmas Eve – Here's why its simple message is still so powerful today

Via: adf-frc-cwa-fair-cis-lc-fan-1 • Religion & Ethics • 2 Comments • 6 years ago

It was 200 years ago this Christmas Eve, on a cold and snowy night in the small Austrian town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg, inside the small St. Nicholas Catholic parish church, that the beloved...

Some Christians Are Mad at Mattel for Considering Same-Sex Wedding Dolls

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 16 Comments • 6 years ago

Mattel, the company that produces Barbie dolls, has plans to meet with a gay couple to create a same-sex wedding set. The move comes after Nick Caprio and Matt Jacobi couldn’t find a...

The True Meaning of Christmas Paganism, Sun Worship and Commercialism

Via: larry-hampton • Religion & Ethics • 8 Comments • 6 years ago

Christmas is the celebration of the time when the days start to lengthen, which in the Northern Hemisphere, is in the middle of winter. Many religions in history have claimed the winter solstice...

More than 500 priests accused of sexual abuse not yet publicly identified by Catholic church, Illinois attorney general finds

Via: epistte • Religion & Ethics • 32 Comments • 6 years ago

The report said accusations have been leveled against 690 priests, while Catholic officials have publicly identified only 185 clergy with credible allegations against them> The determination...

Here are 11 kinds of Bible verses Christians love to ignore

Via: don-overton • Religion & Ethics • 105 Comments • 6 years ago

Some Bible-believing Christians play fast and loose with their sacred text. When it suits their purposes, they treat it like the literally perfect word of God. Then, when it suits their other...

7 top threats Christian churches in America face today

Via: adf-frc-cwa-fair-cis-lc-fan-1 • Religion & Ethics • 187 Comments • 6 years ago

The Alliance Defending Freedom is a household name for many who been have followed religious liberty cases in recent years. A multiple-time winner at the U.S. Supreme Court, the organization...

Ringing in a Christian Nationalist 2019 With an Even Larger Legislative Playbook

Via: don-overton • Religion & Ethics • 2 Comments • 6 years ago

State legislatures across the country became showcases for Christian nationalist legislation in 2018. Leading the charge was the ominously named Project Blitz — a coalition of Christian Right...

Christian Band Fights Music Industry To Release Pro-MAGA Song

Via: adf-frc-cwa-fair-cis-lc-fan-1 • Religion & Ethics • 156 Comments • 6 years ago

Popular Christian band About A Mile went against the wishes of their record label and the radio industry to release the pro-Trump song Make America Great Again. The three brothers behind the...

Ukraine moves to create its own Orthodox church out of Russia's orbit

Via: perrie-halpern • Religion & Ethics • 24 Comments • 6 years ago

By Yuliya Talmazan One of Christianity's biggest splits in centuries is expected to be formalized this weekend as Ukraine moves to create a new church independent from Russia's influence....

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