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Category Archives: Christianity
Beyond Good And Evil (7-4-21)
00:00 Can we move beyond good and evil? https://rumble.com/vjbk1r-saving-private-godward-7-1-21.html 03:00 Godward on Justin the Martyr, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Martyr 25:00 Scholar of religion, John Z. Smith, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Z._Smith 45:40 Richard Spencer gets mean about Christianity and Judaism, https://youtu.be/RLVVrmbm1bc?t=5860 49:00 What does Judas Maccabeus want … Continue reading
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Saving Private Godward (7-1-21)
00:00 Saving Private Ryan, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saving_Private_Ryan 01:30 Justin Martyr’s Dialog with Trypho, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spv_T4QE9Ow 03:00 Justin the Martyr, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Martyr 05:00 Fruit of the Holy Spirit, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_Holy_Spirit 36:45 Justin Martyr by Andrew Hayes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scmdaGIteNo 1:07:00 Justin Martyr and the Jews, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1453625 1:14:00 The … Continue reading
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The Business Of Church
A friend responds to this post: One of the great things about many 18th century novelists (Balzac, Dickens, Trollope) is how much you learn about the societies and businesses in which the novels are set. I hadn’t realized until I … Continue reading
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A Uses and Gratifications Study of Contemporary Christian Radio Web Sites
Josh Bentley writes in 2012: * Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) is a style of music that arose out of the Jesus Movement in the 1970s (Lochte, 2007; Woods, 1999). Musically, it has become very similar to mainstream adult contemporary or … Continue reading
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What does it mean to be a Christian? (4-6-21)
00:00 What does it mean to be Christian or Jewish? https://twitter.com/lukeford/status/1379499997310328834 03:00 Lee Atwater’s Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy, https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/ 10:00 Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=138249 21:00 Why Mental Health Treatment Often Fails, https://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2021/04/why-mental-health-treatment-often-fails.html 22:00 Science Plays the … Continue reading
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David Friedrich Strauß, Father of Unbelief: An Intellectual Biography
Here are some highlights from this 2020 book by Frederic Beiser: * the vast majority of the Protestant population in the early nineteenth century still saw the Bible as the foundation for their faith. Ever since the Reformation, the Protestant … Continue reading
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The Thriving Business of Christian Prophecy And Its 2020 Embarrassments (2-11-21)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Ford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist_Church https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.500577 (My dad’s second PhD thesis)
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Ravi Zacharias — Christian Apologist, Scholar Fraud & Sexual Philanderer (2-11-21)
https://ordinary-gentlemen.com/2017/11/13/the-christian-industrial-complex-shields-its-own/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi_Zacharias https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/02/09/ravi-zacharias-apologist-rzim-sexual-misconduct-lori-anne-thompson-spa/ https://www.tumblr.com/markblackham/109527094963/uppity-poppy-syndrome https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/opinion/65626235/eleanor-catton-should-speak-the-truth-as-she-sees-it
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Why Do White Evangelicals Support Trump?
From the New York Times: Evangelicals did not support Mr. Trump in spite of who he is. They supported him because of who he is, and because of who they are. He is their protector, the bully who is on … Continue reading
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Judaism & The Trinity
Marc B. Shapiro writes: Throughout Jewish literature one can find any number of explanations as to how the notion of the Trinity is in direct opposition to Jewish teachings, since Judaism demands a simple, unified God. There is no doubt … Continue reading
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