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Women’s Rights within Christianity
The Christian west and the Church has a long history of misogyny and denying women their most basic rights, including financial independence, often attempting to use scriptures to justify it. I have read the Bible and neither the OT law or Jesus forbid women from working or owning property, neither demand that they must get…
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Is being a disciple the same thing as being saved?
Luke 9.23-24 Is being a disciple the same thing as being saved? 24 suggests yes, but they could also be people of whom much is given and expected, that not everything is expected of everyone to be saved. If not, it could be argued that verse 24 is a big justification for wanting to be…
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It Was Better Back Then?
I suspect generations have been saying this for millennia. Some who lived before and during the industrial revolution asked this, certainly those who grew up in the Victorian era of progress and safety would be justified in saying this about the depression of the 1930’s. I often hear conservative Christians talk about how much better…
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People Lie (esp evil people)
“Demons lie, they use language to deceive humans” a quote from a Japanese anime about an elf, possibly written by someone Buddhist, is probably an unusual source for such as blog as this but it is none the less true, written by someone who clearly has a understanding of evil. Jesus described the devil as…