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Who is a liberal Christian?

Someone who accepts (or claims to accept) at least some of the basic truths of Christianity, but who does not regard these truths as the most important truths in the world. In other words, a liberal...

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Is It Possible to Discriminate and Still Be a Christian?

This is a guest post by regular commenter Finn McCool This very question has been percolating in my mind for many years now. I am a middle-aged man and I have never heard a sermon preached in any...

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Sellanraa’s Second Law of Religious Debate

“No religion in politics” means “no religion in right-wing politics.” If a shoddily interpreted saying of Christ can be marshalled to support socialism, sodomy, or sacrilege, the “no religion in...

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Sellanraa’s Third Law of Religious Debate

“Church and state should be separate” entails that the Church should have no power over the state, but not that the state should have no power over the Church.

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“You social conservatives are so sex-obsessed!”

Only because you social liberals were sex-obsessed first. It was only because you lobbied–hard, and ultimately successfully–for the normalization and legalization of (in roughly chronological order)...

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Sellanraa’s Fourth Law of Religious Debate

A person’s tendency confidently to impute to non-specific “religion” all sorts of bad characteristics is inversely proportional to his ability coherently to define the term “religion.”

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I probably suck as a person

And so, probably, do you. I learned this from Rebecca Searles of the Huffington Post, who recently claimed that you are entitled to call yourself a feminist if and only if your answer to the question,...

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Apologizing apologists

When defending Christianity and its historical record, Christian–and especially Catholic–apologists often seem very eager to point out that yes, terrible atrocities have been committed in the name of...

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Repost: The City of Man

This is a heavily revised and expanded version of an essay that was originally published (under another title) on my now-defunct personal blog. INTRODUCTION Over the last centuries, the nations of the...

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Sellanraa’s First Law of Religious Debate

The intelligence and learning of an atheist is inversely proportional to his tendency to share his atheism with everyone in sight. (That, at least, is the impression you get if you hang around too long...

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