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If you don’t know why something is true, you don’t actually know that it’s true. And if you don’t know that something is true, you don’t actually believe it. Not really. And if you don’t actually believe it, you cannot … Continue reading →

I’m always told that I have a great “testimony.” A “testimony,” of course, being the account of a Christian’s conversion – how we “came to know the Lord.”   And, not to brag, but as “testimonies” go, mine is a … Continue reading →

No, That’s Not Christianity, Part 0 “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other,” wrote our second president of the United States, John Adams. If we read … Continue reading →

No, That’s Not Christianity: Part 3 If the entire biblical narrative had to be summed up in one scene, one concept, one tidy parable that boiled everything down to its purest, most vital essence, it would be the picture of … Continue reading →

No, That’s Not Christianity: Part 3 It’s a recurring theme in heroic fantasy, and in comic books in particular: he is an unassuming nobody, apt to be dismissed and ignored, as there is nothing appealing about him, no great talent … Continue reading →

At long last, the new Batman movie is out. And it sucks. Of course, all my friends are rolling their eyes right now, because I’m known to be pretty hard on movies – particularly, big cultural-event movies, like massively hyped … Continue reading →

No, That’s Not Christianity: Part 2 My last article was about how Christians just don’t follow, nor even actually read the Bible. We think we do, but we don’t. We’re indoctrinated into a certain set of assumptions about what it … Continue reading →

“Basic instructions before leaving Earth” is a popular way to characterize the Bible among Christians. It’s cute and clever, but it’s also ironic and misleading for several reasons. The particular reason concerning us here is that, for a collection of … Continue reading →

No, That’s Not Christianity: Part 1 The word “heaven” shows up roughly 700-800 times in the Bible, depending on the translation. Incidentally, the reason for that wide variance is that the two words from which the word “heaven” is translated … Continue reading →