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Philosophical debate: "Your Christians are so unlike your Christ..."

2011-12-16T10:58:00.000-08:00

I put this together yesterday afternoon and posted it on Facebook. This is an imaginary conversation between a stereotypical mainline conservative Christian and Jesus of Nazareth. I specifically used words of Jesus and not just general Bible verses. Even though I am an agnostic-borderline-atheist, and I do not believe in Jesus as my savior, I found myself asking if I would agree with only the words of Jesus if they were somehow taken apart from the rest of the Bible (in which there are several passages to which I am morally opposed) and just focused on the "Letters in Red." I began a project based on this idea several years ago, but quickly found that unfortunately I do not agree with EVERYTHING Jesus says. Would have been nice. But he does say a lot of fantastic things, and even as a non religious person, I don't believe in throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
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Philosophical debate: Gay Marriage

2011-10-28T23:26:00.000-07:00

Are you against the legalization of gay marriage, or “Marriage Equality?” If so, please scroll down and find your primary objection to see a brief argument in favor of marriage equality.

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Philosophical debate: Religion, why do YOU believe?

2011-10-28T22:11:00.000-07:00

This is a note that I created on Facebook to get some feedback from my religious friends. It focuses primarily on questioning an individual on why they have chosen to believe their particular religion (based on this particular demographic, the religion is usually Christianity) above any other religion? Or non-religion, or philosophy?

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Philosophical debate: Prayer and the Existence of God

2011-10-28T22:06:00.000-07:00

From time to time, certain posts on my Facebook wall will get a lot of attention. I'll devote a lot of time and energy to responding to my (very diverse!) friends' comments, and it will turn into something that I don't want to just get "lost" on my wall. I would like to preserve it to review in the future.

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