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    Do you think a God who drowns innocent babies from ppl before the flood is loving?

    This is what happens when a mythology gets taken too seriously.
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    How the Internet Got Started

    Al Gore did not invent the internet or has he ever claimed to have done so. However, he was instrumental in drafting the enabling legislation and guiding it through congress.
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    Good News --- A Warm Fuzzy

    Nobody else have a warm fuzzy?
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    Good News --- A Warm Fuzzy

    Our media is dominated by bad news --- wars, disasters and the like. But its not just the bad news because we use the media to beat each other up politically, religiously, racially or by gender. However, once in a while we come across a story that is positive and heartwarming --- a real warm...
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    Trump defends his sanity

    Some on the right regard those on the left as a bunch of simpering idiots. On the other hand, some on the left regard those of the right as a collection of uneducated bumpkins. Both sides are partly correct in that there are a few on each side that fit the description. But mostly they are wrong...
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    Homosexuals and salvation

    Since the homosexual orientation lies within the normal range of what it means to be human, why not simply hold the homosexual to exactly the same moral and ethical standards that we hold heterosexuals to? I regard the legalization of homosexual marriage as a most important step in that...
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    616 or 666?

    The Koine Greek that Christian scripture was composed in used the Miletus number system not the Roman number system. Like the Roman system, the Miletus system used letters (Greek) to repesent numbers. This system required 27 letters to stand for numbers, Nine letters were used to represent the...
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    Homosexuals and salvation

    And while the Old Testament accepted divorce, Jesus forbade it. In short, of the sexual mores mentioned here, we only agree with the Bible on four of them, and disagree with it on sixteen! Surely no one today would recommend reviving the levirate marriage. So why do we appeal to proof texts in...
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    Homosexuals and salvation

    ***So if the Bible allowed polygamy and concubinage, why don't we? * Polygamy (many wives) and concubinage (a woman living with a man to whom she is not married) were regularly practiced in the Old Testament. Neither is ever condemned by the New Testament (with the questionable exceptions of I...
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    Homosexuals and salvation

    Homosexuality and the Bible by the late Walter Wink, Former Professor of Biblical Interpretation, Auburn Theological Seminary, New York City. ***Homosexuality and the Bible Sexual issues are tearing our churches apart today as never before. The issue of homosexuality threatens to fracture...
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    Why celebrate Jesus birth on December 25?

    Dionysius Exigius (aka Dennis the Short), a monk from Russia who died about 544, was asked by Pope John I to set out the dates for Easter from the years 527 to 626. It seems that the Pope was keen to produce some order in the celebration of Easter. Dionysius decided to begin with what he...
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    What Climate Change is Doing to The Polar Bears in Canada

    While the bear is obviously starving to death, the cause is not obvious. It is more likely illness or injury rather than climate change that is the cause.
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    The Christmas Thread: Merry Christmas!

    I believe it to be a crime to even mention Christmas before December and don't get me started on Christmas music before Christmas Eve. Bah! Humbug!
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    What message do you take away from Job?

    The message that I get from Job is that prosperity theology is bunk. Being righteous in no way guarantees your prosperity and being prosperous does not necessarily mean that you are righteous. In fact, in both cases the reverse is very frequently the case.
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    What message do you take away from Job?

    Whenever one tries to read a mythology as literal truth it is almost inevitable that huge contradictions will be found.
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    The war of 1812

    The Battle of Crysler's Farm is the most ignominious military defeat in American history. An American army of 8000 crossed the St Lawrence River intending to take Montreal. They were met by 800 British regulars (about 60% Canadian) supported by 200 Canadian militia and 100 Indians. It was a...
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    The war of 1812

    Not true. The Brits actually agreed to stop the practice but the Americans started the war anyhow. When the war started there was considerable sympathy for the Americans but then they looted and burned Newark (Niagara on the Lake) and York (Toronto) and other atrocities and that sympathy rapidly...
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    Inspirational Quotes and Sayings

    Inscription on a WW2 memorial to the Bosnian Muslim partisans who fought the Nazis: "Here is their grave. Stay for a while in the forest silence. Take off your caps. Here rests the flower of a people who knew how to die."
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    What Is Sin?

    In any discussion of moral standards I think that it might be helpful to discuss the difference between sin and evil. But before attempting that, let us examine a similar situation in the secular realm. Governments at every level pass legislation that prohibits certain actions. We use the word...
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    Proof texting

    When the entire context of scripture is understood one can draw much different conclusions from a great many passages. Scripture does not explain itself and frequently can be understood on several levels that are sometimes contradictory.
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