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Women’s Rights within Christianity
The Christian west and the Church have 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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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,…
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Thoughts about Hell
Something triggered me a couple of months ago, something that brought back suppressed memories. I didn’t have the easiest start to adulthood or Christianity (I became a Christian at 17 after a number of years of hedonistic behaviour), 16-22 was rough, it was a lost child that became a Christian via a traumatic event that…