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Points that irk
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awelborn
Related, sort of: 1) If there was a big-blow out media event that was supportive of traditional Christian claims, the NYTimes would consider it its sworn duty to run at least one contrarian op-ed pointing out the flaws of that media event, probably from a self-identified Christian who would be very careful, yet forceful in…
Pro-Life Nation
By
awelborn
The NYtimes Magazine turns its attention to El Salvador. In this new movement toward criminalization, El Salvador is in the vanguard. The array of exceptions that tend to exist even in countries where abortion is circumscribed — rape, incest, fetal malformation, life of the mother — don’t apply in El Salvador. They were rejected in…
Dr. Pagels
By
awelborn
Well, I see Elaine Pagels spoke for herself in the NYTimes this morning Yet those early Christians who loved and revered such texts did not think of themselves as heretics, but as Christians who had received not only what Jesus preached publicly, but also what he taught his disciples when they were talking privately. Many…
By
awelborn
Watched the National Geographic Gospel of Judas show. So..here’s the summary. Lots of cheesy re-enactments of the finding of the document, the scholars’ encounters with it, as well as various ancient events. Like, you know, Irenaues SWEEPING the scrolls he’s just finished condemning off the table. The program is split between the story of the…
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