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Archive for January, 2009

Clueless

Meanwhile a large crowd of Jews found out that Jesus was there and came, not only because of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus as well, for on account of him many of the Jews were going over to [...]

Inaugurate This!

Is anyone else sick of all the drooling over the coronation of the first King of the North American Union inauguration of the (unqualified and foreign-born) US president? I can’t remember ever seeing and hearing as much gushing over any presidential inauguration in my life. Biased much, mainstream propaganda machine media? And could it be [...]

Of Babies and Bathwater

We have an old expression here in the US: “Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.” It means not to discard a whole set of things just because one of them might need to be discarded.
Yet Christians do this all the time. Some will be your friend as long as you agree with them. [...]

A Bad Experience

I have noticed that whenever you disagree with someone, one of the most common assumptions they jump to is that “you had a bad experience”; that there must be some trauma you suffered that makes you crazy enough to disagree with them.
For example, anyone who disagrees with male supremacy is presumed to have been abused [...]

Perpetuating Error

A few years ago I wrote something about the alleged “call to the ministry“. But today I’d like to focus more on this subtle error, even a mystical one, that tradition has perpetuated.
Here are some quotes of well-known Bible teachers concerning their own “calling to ministry”:
Lying face down on the field one night with [...]