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Alabama Governor Bentley's Remarks on God's Family

Robert Bentley's remarks have cause an uproar across the web with his remarks to a church congregation. The press has twisted it around to make it seem like he said it at his inauguration, when of course he said it late…
John Cleese and Daniel Dennett on Reductionistic Science

A few years ago, Daniel Dennett wrote a book illustrating how the human brain, when tickled a certain way, will produce ecstatic visions of religious phenomena. According to Dennett, this illustrates that religious beli…
Losing My Religion: My Struggle With Faith and Sources of Hope

This may be so honest it scares people, and it may just scare me a little too, but I've never shied away from baring my soul here on Xanga, and I'm not about to start here. In the past two weeks, I have been asked very s…
Torn Between my Religion and my Relationship

Sometimes life is just a joke. A few days after I told my boyfriend that I loved him, and we changed our facebook relationship status, he told me that, after all, he thought that sex was a huge part of relationship. If I…
The Pope and Evolution

There is a range of perspectives Christians embrace about evolution, ranging from a flat creationism that represents dinosaurs gathering onto Noah's Ark, to the Intelligent Design movement, to an evolutionary process whe…
Are Christians Closed-minded?

Christians and other members of religious traditions are often criticized as being closed-minded. Admittedly, sometimes we deserve this. We're not always perfect, and we don't always give new or different ideas a fair h…
Tony Blair and Christopher Hitchens to Debate Religion in Toronto

So I don't know how many of you know, and I'm guessing a lot of you do, but Tony Blair and Christopher Hitchens are coming to Toronto in November (the 26) to debate religion. That's right, Tony Blair, former prime minste…
Thinking About God: The "One" and Only

Time and time again, people have been wrestling with the idea of the “One” encompassing all others. In my daily struggles as a "baby" Christian, I've been attempting to come to terms with the idea of God. I…
Why Believe in Christianity?

A fellow xangan recently posted a kindly challenge to Christians about epistemology (theories of how we know things) . He essentially asked: How do you know Christianity is true? Here is my response: Firstly, it is key…
Understanding World Religions

There are three stages of understanding world religions. The first stage is to look at all the world religions and think how different, and varied, and interesting they all are. Then one takes an Intro to World Religi…