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Advent: God’s Plan to Save Our World on a Budget

22 hours ago ago from :: in.a.mirror.dimly ::

Over the past four months we’ve down-sized quite a bit. We took our stuff in an 1100 square foot house with an oversized garage and storage loft and crammed what we didn’t sell or give away into a small one-bedroom apartment without extra storage space. It’s not a tiny place, but it sure feels that way when you’re downsizing. Having gotten rid of so many things, I have a sense that I never really needed them all that much to begin with. ...

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Another red flag

8 hours ago ago from My Point Exactly

A couple of months ago, I wrote about a religious tract that warned readers to resist the temptation of college. Via dwasifar , here's another version of that same warning: The advice to skip class, not church is from Penn State's Alliance Christian Fellowship. If you miss your weekly or twice weekly, or thrice weekly brainwashing sessions, how do you expect your religious leaders to be able to undo the critical thinking skills ...

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Can you be good without God?

20 hours ago ago from The Rise of Atheism

Leslie Cannold, one of the presenters at the Global Atheist Convention, explains the importance of being good without God. A reader asks, "Can you be good without God?" The question arose when a Christian friend's reasons for doing charitable works ("impacting someone's life with a kind, inspired gesture from God") made her feel her own reasons for undertaking the same activities (that she both enjoyed them and found them meaningful) ...

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Advanced apologizing: Proof of the existence of God

19 hours ago ago from Digital Bits Skeptic

By Nicholas Covington Article ID: 1349 Let's examine the evidence for a god's existence. Some arguments are well-known and very well covered, like the Problem of Evil, the First Cause Argument, the Argument from Design. Instead, let's look at four lesser-known, overlooked oddities. Welcome to the strange world of religious apologizing. 1) "The common consent to God" Catholic theologian Peter Kreeft offers the following argument for God’s ...

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Further reflections from yesterday’s gathering…

3 hours ago ago from Springfield Awakening

At yesterday's Awakening , we reflected on the disconnects that those of us in the so-called first-world have when we hear the song of Mary (the Magnificat ), particularly the part about the way God has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly; filling the hungry with good things, and sending the rich away empty. If we hear this with first world ears, it's not exactly a comforting message. Indeed, it challenges ...

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