The Bible Week 12

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2 Samuel 23:4, Sunrise, 1 Kings 7:23, π, Should the Bible always be taken literally, Matthew 18:21&22, What is Science? What is Religion?  Relationship between Science and Religion, Deriving morality from nature, Gen 1:3, what is the purpose and message of Genesis 1? Origin of Science https://www.consider.org/Classes/Bible/HandoutM.htm https://www.consider.org/Classes/Bible/HandoutN.htm https://biblehub.com httpv://youtu.be/qyM-r7VERcY

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Christianity In America?

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Listen to the MP3 As I point out in my forthcoming book, Preserving Democracy, one of the things that surprised Alexis de Tocqueville, when he came to what was then the new country of America, was religion. As he wrote in his classic, Democracy in America, “Upon my arrival in the United States, the religious […]

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Hitchens – God Is Not Great XXVII

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Listen to the MP3 Chapter sixteen of Christopher Hitchens book “God Is Not Great,” deals with a question, one  now routinely raised by the neo-atheists, of whether religion is child abuse.  Hitchens starts with, “the imponderably large question.  How can we ever know how many children had their psychological and physical lives irreparably maimed by […]

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Hitchens – God Is Not Great III

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Listen to the MP3   This week I return to my extended review of Christopher Hitchens, “God Is Not Great,” Similar to Dawkins and Harris, serious problems abound in the early pages of the Hitchens’ book. Many are simply statements of personal opinion with at best questionable background or support, such as his claims that “Religion […]

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Is Christianity A Religion

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Listen to the MP3 Make reference to the “Christian Religion” around other Christians and you are likely to be told something to the effect that ‘Christianity is not a religion is it a relationship.” Now there is some truth in such statements as a key element of Christianity is one’s personal relationship with God. But […]

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