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Tag Archive 'hermeneutics'

Re-inventing The Text

Posted in Language, Religion on Feb 27th, 2008

There are many people who chose to base their lives around a particular religious text. This religious text may contain writing composed thousands of years ago (in the case of the bible, composed over thousands of years). They choose to use this text to determine what they eat and wear, who they marry [...]

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Bad Faith

Posted in Faith, Health, Morality, Mortality, Religion on Nov 6th, 2007

In the early hours of October 25, 2007, 22 year old Emma Gough, a shopworker from Telford, UK, died.  She had recently given birth to twins, and held the babies as her life ebbed away.
She died, despite being in hospital with a team of doctors and nurses around her.  She died, even though her life [...]

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The President and Conservative Evangelicals

Posted in Religion, Television on Oct 18th, 2007

I really encourage you to watch this clip, especially if you are tempted to be uncritical in your reading of the bible, or want to use the bible to inform your views on homosexuality.

I am grateful to Roopster at de-converted for finding this material.

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