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Completely blue, and completely yellow, and yet not green. (It's okay if it doesn't make sense).

Uh, I'm just recognizing that I have had priviledges, through no merit of my own, that others haven't had. To those who consider people who don't learn the language to be spongers: how many languages do you speak well enough to handle daily life?

It's not that immigrants shouldn't learn the language of the country that they immigrate to. They should. But you can't talk about it in terms of the law until you address how difficult it is to learn ANY language well enough to get by in everyday life; how hard it is to learn any language well...

I don't think that premarital sex is always wrong. But it's a mistake to think that if a couple is committed, and monogamous, and engaged, that necessarily means anything. Two people date exclusively for four years, get engaged two years into that. Lots of shmoopy One And Only Forever Love...

But is it RIGHT if they burn Bibles in Saudi Arabia? Isn't a world where you can practice your religion without prejudice in any country better than a world where you just have to move to a country that enforces your particular brand of religion?

I had a thought. God works outside of time, encompassing all of time. And we talk about the harrowing of Hell, Jesus going into Hell to preach to those who died before. So why would the crucifixion have to change things in a one-way, going-forward-only sense? If it represented a change in the...

-No. The problem is that very few of us experience God's words directly. At best we have a translation of a divinely inspired book that doesn't have crystal-clear meanings and isn't always easy to interpret. We have competing truth claims: many people think that they have true knowledge of what...

Speaking as someone who doesn't want the 10 Commandments in government buildings, that has nothing to do with it. I believe that the 10 Commandments are not the basis for our laws, and that posting them in government buildings constitutes an implicit endorsment of Judaism and Christianity that...

Needless to say I don't take this seriously--I got a 62, so I might just barely squeak in. :D http://www.areyougoingtoheaven.com/GPmovie04.html It's written from an obviously Charismatic perspective, but my biggest problem with it is Question 5--none of the answers even describe me.

There's a blog called Slacktivist (slacktivist.typepad.com) that's doing a really scathing review of Left Behind--the guy who writes it is a progressive evangelical, very smart guy. I'm lucky enough to have never read a page.

I do, in essentially the traditional orthodox sense. But I can't speak for anyone else.

Neither. If we consider Jesus' priorities as proclaiming the kingdom of God, caring for the uncared for, and including the marginalized, then--that has no necessary connection to a certain political philosophy, IMHO. I have an opinion about which political parties do a better job of it, but...

The dictionary definition of agnosticism is the belief, not just that you don't know, but that you cannot know. That certainly applies to me, and to many others as well, of course. The real question, IMHO, isn't "do I know where this path leads," but rather, "should I keep walking on it."

I think that each of those scenarios presupposes that God's consciousness, like ours, is anchored to a single point in time at any given time. Instead, I think that God encompasses all of eternity in such a way that it's meaningless to talk of going forward or backward...if that makes sense.

Also: the world can sustain life because of certain weather patterns, but those weather patterns will by necessity lead to disasters sometimes. Also, we know that far, far more people evacuate a city when a hurricane is coming if they have the money to do so. New Orleans has a high population...

Indeed--which makes sense if you look at it in terms of the "premodern/modern/postmodern" framework, because the postmodern and the premodern seem to have more in common with each other than with the modern.

It seems like reading recommendation threads prop up pretty frequently on this board. Would it be a good idea/a possible idea to make a single sticky thread for book recommendations? Might be helpful for newbies here. Just a though. :)

Quoth Wikipedia: IMO, while megachurches are definitely NOT emergent, emergent churches and megachurches do share some points of commonality, in that they tend to be focused on "generation X," and that they tend to incorporate things like Powerpoint presentations with visuals and audio. The...

In the past year, I've broken my arm, twisted my ankle, ended a 1.5-year relationship, and gotten the worst grades of my life--which are still pretty good, but worse than I expect from myself. I have scars, for the first time in my life, including emotional ones. Which is just to say...there...

Evangelical protestantism, and especially fundamentalism, tends towards the modernist: it's very focused on propositional logic, and sees truth/falsehood as knowable absolutes. But liberal theology, equally, can tend towards the modernist. "Jesus didn't rise from the dead because we know people...