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"But Funnibunney," you ask, "Christmas was over two weeks ago!"

It's Christmas in the Julian calendar today. There are quite a few (read: Oriental Orthodox and Old Calendarist) Christians that still celebrate it on this day, Santa Claus be damned.

Also, keep these people in your prayers.

You'd be surprised at the number of people who tarry in the ( Read more... )

 

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Christianity is viewed as a savage, violent religion (Native Americans)--until it is viewed as a weakening, nihilistic, effeminate religion (Gibbons, Nietzsche).

Whether God is angry and judgmental or loving and forgiving, He is viewed as a psychological construct.

When the benefits of prayer and praxis are shown through psychological study, they ( Read more... )

Let us, for a moment, suppose that Darwinian evolution is true and that there is no God.

In the Darwinian paradigm, species are selected for/against based on their ability to adapt to their surroundings. In a crude sociological sense, "the strong procreate; the weak die." All human, animal and vegetable effort revolves around gathering resources ( Read more... )

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Translation? I had to hunt down the lyrics by Googling "Ellines tou exoterikou" and putting it through Babelfish. The Greek lyrics are mostly about living Greek culture outside of Greece, which apparently not many Greek kids do today. But you can get a sense of the nostalgia even from the scant English lyrics.

To my Christian friends: Do not be upset or dismayed that non Christians attempt to explain moral behaviour in evolutionary terms. In doing so, they are are tacitly consenting to the necessity of moral standards even as they deny their source, as well as subtly denying the logical implications of extreme atheism; "if there are no standards, ( Read more... )

After a longish interest in Orthodox Christianity, YouTube decided to be a troll and decided to throw in a video that is a case for the atheist way of life (whatever that is). I didn't watch the video because the full text is available in the "more info" section.

Some argue that religious life is the best way to live. They claim life without a god ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, Snake fought Pikachu for Samus's hand in marriage ( Read more... )