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Losing my religion at Christian camp: The way a decade at Christian summer camp both shaped and condemned views of faith and girlhood
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Excerpt from "Myth and Ritual in Christianity" by A. Watts
... The very insistence on the one historical incarnation as a unique step in a course of events leading to the future Kingdom of God reveals the psychology of Western culture most clearly. It...
... The very insistence on the one historical incarnation as a unique step in a course of events leading to the future Kingdom of God reveals the psychology of Western culture most clearly. It shows a mentality for which the present, real world is, in itself, joyless and barren, without value. The present can have value only in terms of meaning—if, like a word, it points to something beyond itself. This "beyond" which past and present events "mean" is the future. This the Western intellectual, as well as the literate common man, finds his life meaningless except in terms of a promising future. But the future is a "tomorrow which never comes", and for this reason Western culture has a "frantic" character. It is a desperate rush in pursuit of an ever-receding "meaning", because the promising future is precisely the famous carrot which the clever driver dangles before his donkey's nose from the end of his whip. Tragically enough, this frantic search for God, for the ideal life, in the future renders the course of history anything but a series of unique steps towards a goal. Its real result is to make history repeat itself faster and more furiously, confusing "progress" with increased agitation.
—Alan Watts, Myth and Ritual in Christianity. 1954
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The anti-medical dogma of Christian Science led my father to an agonising death. Now the church itself is in decline – and it can’t happen fast enough.
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The last days of John Allen Chau, the American missionary who was killed in November 2018 by the uncontacted tribe on North Sentinel Island
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The new, extremely online era of Christianity
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My religious OCD convinced me God would never love me
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Inside the radical beliefs of Israel Folau's Truth of Jesus Christ Church, founded by his father Eni
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Did Israel Folau actually misquote the Bible? Hell, yes
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Felix Ngole wins appeal in victory for Christian freedoms
Felix Ngole wins appeal in victory for Christian freedoms Here is the actual judgement by the Court of Appeal: PDF link This is a key paragraph (Section 5, Paragraph 10, on page 3 in the...
Felix Ngole wins appeal in victory for Christian freedoms
Here is the actual judgement by the Court of Appeal: PDF link
This is a key paragraph (Section 5, Paragraph 10, on page 3 in the document):
The University wrongly confused the expression of religious views with the notion of discrimination. The mere expression of views on theological grounds (e.g. that ‘homosexuality is a sin’) does not necessarily connote that the person expressing such views will discriminate on such grounds. In the present case, there was positive evidence to suggest that the Appellant had never discriminated on such grounds in the past and was not likely to do so in the future (because, as he explained, the Bible prohibited him from discriminating against anybody).
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Why do people say "Jesus H. Christ," and where did the "H" come from?
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Why certain words are left out of our English Bibles
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Has “Homosexual” always been in the Bible?
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Southern Baptists to confront sexual abuse and role of women in the church
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The world’s oldest medieval map
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The Uniting Church is facing growing unrest as conservative factions push for it to reverse its decision to allow ministers to perform same-sex marriages.
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United Methodist court upholds Traditional Plan’s ban on LGBTQ clergy, same sex marriage
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Fireworks and pipe bombs: How Greek towns celebrate Easter
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How Southern Baptists Are Grappling With Artificial Intelligence
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I'm a Christian doctor and I help women have abortions. Here's how I reconcile that.
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The art of biblical translation, part two: Modern translators and their tin-ear to the literature of the Hebrew Bible
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The art of biblical translation, part one: On the eloquence of the King James Version
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United Methodist Church votes to maintain its opposition to same-sex marriage, gay clergy
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Conservative Christian group launches campaign against “Buddhist meditation” in public schools
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God is not male or female, says Archbishop of Canterbury
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Aberdeenshire church to break away amid gay marriage row
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Israeli Christians protest artwork depicting Ronald McDonald as ‘McJesus’
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Uniting Church to continue to allow same-sex marriages following deciding vote in South Australia
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Ukraine: New Orthodox church gains independence from Moscow
Ukraine: new Orthodox church gains independence from Moscow This is a follow-up to this previous article: Ukraine announced the leader of a new national church on Saturday, marking an historic...
Ukraine: new Orthodox church gains independence from Moscow
This is a follow-up to this previous article: Ukraine announced the leader of a new national church on Saturday, marking an historic split from Russia which its leaders see as vital to the country’s security and independence. It seems it wasn't sufficient for the Ukraine Orthodox Church to choose its own leader; its independence (or autocephaly) had to be formally decreed by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
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Gutenberg’s Bible: The Real Information Revolution – how one of the greatest advances in human culture also helped divide Christendom
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Biblical city of Bethlehem boasts largest Christmas in years
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Ukraine announced the leader of a new national church on Saturday, marking an historic split from Russia which its leaders see as vital to the country’s security and independence.
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Pakistan’s ultra-Islamist party blocked roads in major cities for a third day on Friday in protest against the acquittal of a Christian woman on death row for blasphemy allegations
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'Toxic Christianity': The US evangelicals creating champions for Donald Trump
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What Maniac does (and doesn't) get right about the Bible and the Gnostics
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Considering interfaith relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims: an interview with Patrick J. Ryan, S.J.
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Western Christianity isn't dying out from natural causes. It's dying of suicide.
Original article in 'The Telegraph': Western Christianity isn't dying out from natural causes. It's dying of suicide. Same article syndicated in 'The Age': Why Western Christianity has a death...
Original article in 'The Telegraph': Western Christianity isn't dying out from natural causes. It's dying of suicide.
Same article syndicated in 'The Age': Why Western Christianity has a death wish. (in case the paywall on the Telegraph article blocks you)
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Jehovah’s Witness girl could receive blood against her will during childbirth
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Christianity spread faster in small, politically structured societies
The study published in Nature.com: Christianity spread faster in small, politically structured societies An article about the study: How did Christianity spread?
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The secret history of Leviticus
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New law requires crosses in all public buildings in German state of Bavaria
9 votes