Bible, Church, History

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Title: Bible, Church, History
INTRODUCTION
Quite obviously, I'm dealing with these three topics, and I hope that I don't have to break this up into three parts. If so, oh well (I don't know what Religious Forums has here). I do know I tend to wax fairly verbose.
Christians seem to confu

The Virginia Assessment Controversy: the birth of Religious Liberty

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Tolerance is not the opposite of intolerance, but the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it. -- Thomas Paine

In 1785, a political struggle occurred within the Virginia state assembly, t

Vigil basics.

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This will be my first article. And here I will be outlining some of the basics of my vigil training. This will both help some of you understand my work, as well as help me focus my thoughts for my class this semester. Let's hope it goes well.

To be a Vigil is to be vigilant. Constant

The Riddle of Epicurus

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Quote:
The Riddle of Epicurus
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
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God - Proof From Islam.

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new muslims

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"The Last Day will not come until Islam has entered every single house on the earth."
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Logical Consistency

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Logic is a funny thing--we think we've got it down, and then, BAM! Our entire logical process turns itself inside out upon arriving at a completely illogical conclusion. Our brains near the point of meltdown as, cross-eyed, we try and decipher how our perfectly logical premise could result in su

Language and Myth - The Successive

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The Successive Phases of Religious Thought
ACCORDING to Usener, the lowest level to which we can trace back the origin of religious concepts is that of "momentary gods," as he calls those images which are born from the need or the specific feeling of a critical moment, sprung from the excitati

Language and Myth - Word magic

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The following is from the 5th essay of the book, Language and Myth, by Ernst Cassirer, detailed at the end of the article
In mythic conception, however, things are not taken for what they mean indirectly, but for their immediate appearance; they are taken as pure presentations, and embodied in t

Catholic Saints

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As a convert to the Catholic faith, the Catholic practice of praying to “Saints” was confusing. Several passages in the Bible refer to the faithful as “saints”....... this was important to me in my conversion because I feared that the Saints made me somehow inferior in my worship. My studies led