I have had it with the Old Testament. Except for every once and a while when something truly divine shows through, the OT God just seems like a souped-up tribal patriarch to me. He is constantly jealous, angry, violent - and most important, all too human in inspiration. I don't see any sign in...
Based on my not-so-deep reading about Gnosticism to date, I was wondering what Gnostics have to say about nature. The orthodox Christian charge against Gnosticism I have seen over and over again is that it is so pessimistic about the material world, which I assume includes humanity's natural...
This is a question for theists, atheists, and everyone in between. I ask because so many debates about God seem to assume everyone knows what God is or is supposed to be, without "his" even needing to be defined. (I've just found this site, so I'm not so much talking about discussions here as in...
Why am I here? I guess it starts with this: I grew up with faith and then lost it. After many years as an atheist, I suddenly found myself unable to shake the intuition that the universe had meaning after all. I tried to return to Christianity, but I'm starting to realize I can't - at least, not...