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September 2014

September 30, 2014

The Task of All Great Religions

This quote came to my attention via several pages on Facebook. You can read the...

September 19, 2014

What Kind of Drug is Religion?

Karl Marx famously observed that religion was the opiate of the masses, meaning that it...

September 16, 2014

Foolproof Theodicy?

Jonathan Bernier wrote this in a comment here on this blog, and I thought it...

September 12, 2014

Faith Starts

The quote comes from the post "The Agnosticism of Faith" on the Speculative Faith blog....

September 01, 2014

A Bible Misused

A Bible used as a weapon against other human beings, is always a Bible misused....

August 2014

August 29, 2014

Is Your Religion an Idol?

The quote from Henry Sloane Coffin's book Joy in believingwhich appears in the image, as...

August 28, 2014

The Unity of Truth

The quote comes from a blog that I had drawn to my attention for the...

August 17, 2014

Scripture is Not Alone

 The fact is that "scriptura" by its very nature is a book that people read, so...

August 13, 2014

It Is Still A Lie

The above quote comes from a post by Jim Kidder in a series that is...

August 04, 2014

One Person’s Theology Quote

Someone shared the following image, allegedly quoting science fiction author Robert Heinlein.I have found the...

August 01, 2014

The Opposite of Faith is Not Doubt

The quote comes from p.11 of Michael J. Langford's book The Tradition of Liberal Theology,...

July 2014

July 30, 2014

Quantum Quote

The quote comes from an IO9 article by Esther Inglis-Arkell with the title "Stop Using...

July 25, 2014

Not Persecution

The quote comes from Benjamin Corey's recent post on his blog Formerly Fundie.

July 24, 2014

The Bible We Actually Have

The quote from Chris Keith is taken from his contribution to Pete Enns' series about...

July 23, 2014

Figuring Out God

 

July 20, 2014

Trust in God and in the Human Mind

I recently came across this meme image with a quote from Ken Miller. I also...

July 09, 2014

To Be Spiritual Is To Be Amazed

There is also a fake Buddha quote related to amazement. 

July 08, 2014

Real Hero

Via Rebecca Trotter

July 07, 2014

This-Worldly Christianity

“Isn’t it odd? Christians created a theological scenario that placed the soul of every person...

July 06, 2014

Bootstraps

The quote comes from Eddie Arthur's post "Poverty Simply Explained" (which also quotes from Terry Pratchett's...

July 06, 2014

Security as Superstition

Via Rebecca Trotter. Does anyone know the actual precise source of the quotation?

July 01, 2014

A Mature Kind of Faith

The quote is taken from an interview Candida Moss did with The Blaze.

June 2014

June 16, 2014

Spiritual Consumers

“You can’t just be a spiritual consumer. You have to be a spiritual producer because...

June 15, 2014

John Dominic Crossan on Literalism

June 12, 2014

Hungering for Justice

Herein is the difference between private charity and social justice, between doing acts of mercy...

June 07, 2014

Attribute it to them Anyway

"Sometimes you will come across something on the internet falsely attributed to a famous person....

June 06, 2014

Faith, Hope, and Doubt

The quote comes from the post "Doubt as Hope" on the blog Chesha in Motion.

May 2014

May 31, 2014

Learn to Fail

May 28, 2014

Maya Angelou Quotes

I presume that everyone has heard by now that Maya Angelou has passed away. I...

May 27, 2014

That One’s Beams

I noticed the image on a post on Chet Raymo's Science Musings Blog, "Heaven in...

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