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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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I’ve been wrong about God
It’s occurred to me over the last year and a half that so much of what I believed about God is wrong. I’ve thought of Him as all about judgement and punishment. He’s not, He’s about love and salvation, and He’s suffered from bad press, even within the church. If you want to experience what…
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Bad Things Happen
I hear it all the time from non Christians “if God is good then why does He let bad things happen”. God has repeatedly tried to teach humans to be good, what good looks like, and given humans a helper to help them be good. God isn’t responsible for terrible things that befall humans, humans…
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Thoughts about Hell 2
May last year something snapped in my while listening to a sermon at church that included “the unforgivable sin”. I was plagued by fear for days, it started a journey I have been on since then about the nature of God. The people I got involved with after becoming a Christian at 17 were zealots,…