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Pornography’s Dirty Little Secret: What We Say vs. What We Do

…resumably because of the taboo. It may also be the case that high rates of online sexual activity come from liberals who live in these sexually restrictive right-leaning states. In any case, the rhetoric and reality gaps when it comes to religion and porn use easily confuses the issues and leaves people at odds in knowing what to do. Associate Pastor Cameron Beyenberg works with youth at a Southern California church. In working with young people b…

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“Dark” Skin No Longer a Curse in Online Book of Mormon

…eir unbelief, the Lamanites are cursed, receive a skin of blackness, and become a scourge to the Nephites.” * New online version: “Because of their unbelief, the Lamanites are cut off from the presence of the Lord, are cursed, and become a scourge unto the Nephites.” A second changed chapter heading appears in Mormon, chapter 5: * Old version: “The Lamanites shall be a dark, filthy, and loathsome people. . .” * New online version: “Because of thei…

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Is Proselytizing Ever Okay? Are We All Proselytizing All The Time?

…iendships need to be forged around some organic connection, some aspect of common ground and that shared values are essential for a close friendship, whereas befriending someone who’s different so you can deliberately try to change them–particularly if you plan to try to change something central to their identity–is objectification, and therefore unethical. In any case, no matter how you slice it, proselytizing is not the same as me telling a frie…

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Republican Lauren Boebert Jokes About AR-15s and Jesus — And Yes, She’s a ‘Real’ Christian

…1537133642706714631?s=20&t=3MwrM_U34Ow5MGlki1Ge3g https://twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/status/1537118021113765891?s=20&t=3MwrM_U34Ow5MGlki1Ge3g Sometimes, they also throw in antisemitism of the inexcusably ignorant “Old Testament bad, New Testament good” variety: https://twitter.com/GraceAl38236563/status/1536965528106848257?s=20&t=C1LEqRtrWU2FcxnEO_kABA https://twitter.com/mikereinholz777/status/1537142865956024320?s=20&t=C1LEqRtrWU2FcxnEO_kABA Whil…

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There’s Nothing Wrong with ‘Prayer’; But There’s Every Reason to be Skeptical of Pence’s Coronavirus Prayer Circle

…the Trump administration’s response is being led by one of them—Vice President Mike Pence, a fellow Hoosier and one who, as governor of Indiana, allowed an HIV outbreak to blow up because his Christian extremist ideology prevented him from adopting sensible policy. There are reasons I’ve left that state. If you find that Pence’s record of failing to pray disease away doesn’t inspire confidence in his ability to tackle coronavirus, you’ll most lik…

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Christian Nationalism Was the Loser of Tuesday’s Debate

…and Israel last night, and received a variety of answers: https://twitter.com/cliff_hayden/status/1232499510812672005?s=20 https://twitter.com/mcjulie/status/1232501308071890947?s=20 https://twitter.com/levi_bullen/status/1232499124076826626?s=20 https://twitter.com/1n1m1/status/1232500422667067392?s=20 https://twitter.com/snboyle/status/1232529394091970561?s=20 https://twitter.com/johnmark/status/1232499002286850048?s=20 In any case, Donald Trum…

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Why the ‘Confession & Redemption’ Path is Unlikely to Help Falwell Recover from Sex Scandal

com/libbyjones715/status/1297987720279711749?s=20 https://twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/status/1297959266616250368?s=20 Evangelicals themselves seem divided. For example, cantankerous Christian radio personality Janet Mefferd, a woman who considers Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore “too liberal” despite Moore’s conservative devotion to “biblical patriarchy,” took to Twitter to lament “that evangelicals have become numb to celebrity sex scandals,”…

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Is Criticizing Mitt Romney an Excommunicable Offense? No.

…mon history, while concealing his own identity as an editor of Mormonthink.com.  His identity was reported to Church officials by Scott Gordon, president of the Foundation for Apologetics and Information Research, an independent Mormon organization that seeks to answer “criticisms of LDS doctrines, beliefs, and practices.” Like Mormonthink.com, Twede’s own blogsite aggressively presses on a nexus of deep sensitivity for disaffected and questioning…

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Leper Messiah: A Jesus Freak’s Search for the Meaning of Bowie—A Critical Novella

…aries, Maenads of a secular mystery cult.   Endnotes: 1Fanatic. Dictionary.com. Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fanatic. 2Quoted in Fred and Judy Vermorel, Starlust (London: Comet Books, 1985), pps. 182-183, archived on the “Retirement Gig” page of The Ziggy Stardust Companion, http://www.5years.com/Retire.htm. 3Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious…

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Yearning For A God We Can Live With

…he ordinary one… neither a paternalistic judge nor a partisan warrior, but Ein Sof, Being and Nothingness, without end or limit.” Selmanovic’s argument for the centrality of God operates on the level of social relations rather than metaphysics, but his subtitle is equally indicative: “Reflections of a Muslim Atheist Jewish Christian.” The provocative immodesty of this assertion (though Selmanovic can claim secular and Muslim pedigree he has quite…

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