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"Love your enemies. Do good to those who try to harm you. Bless those who curse you." - Jesus Christ

Really? Can you provide a citation to a reliable source to back up this claim?

Hi Jess. Thank you for sharing your situation. I know that depression hurts and often one gets a sinking feeling that things will never get better. The most important thing is to turn this thought aside. Remind yourself that countless people have recovered from depression through God's grace...

Welcome, and thanks for sharing your wonderful story. I'm a convert too--was an atheist up to age 23.

No "thought to be important for humanity" by who? Why are you using passive voice?

Hi FireDragon. Much of what you say sounds familiar to me, as I'm also on the autistic spectrum and was also raised in a non-religious household. My only advice to you is keep searching, and be willing to look everywhere including churches that you haven't tried before. I wish I could offer...

No. Not at all. Objective truth is what makes a theory valid. For decades there has been a consensus among scientists that a diet high in saturated fat leads to higher risk of heart attack and stroke. Experiments proving this to be true were repeated many times. Government agencies spent...

That's not exactly a strong vote of confidence for the Democratic Party, is it?

I've never yet met anyone who denies that climate exists. Climate change takes place constantly, at all times, in all places on earth and even on other planets. No climate is ever entirely static. There is probably a component of current trends in climate that's caused by human activity...

When I walk outside I see and hear and smell and feel the sunshine, the trees, the bushes, the flowers, the animals, the water, the snow, the rocks, and so forth. And through my senses I know that these things of nature are good, and hence God is good since it's God who made nature. You are...

Thank you very much for posting this. A merry Christmas to you too.

In my jurisdiction, emotional abuse is a matter of law. I'm a teacher, so I have to go through thorough training on the question of what is and isn't child abuse. What you claim to be abuse is not, in fact, abuse. The picture offers no evidence to back those claims up.

Actually during Christ's earthly lifetime, there was no such thing as "the secular world". The concept had not been invented yet. In the early medieval period, Christian clergy were divided into two groups: religious and secular clergy. The former were monks and nuns who lived mainly in...

Well, yes. And I could say that all atheists are committing murder, then later explain that my personal definition of murder isn't the actual definition. However, most folks would probably agree that I'd be a jerk if I did that. That seems to me to be begging a number of questions...

Lewis was an Englishman who wanted to remain within the English mainstream. I don't say this as a criticism, but merely as a fact. He lived at a time when non-conformists no longer suffered legal discrimination or punishment, but societal opinion sometimes shifts more slowly than the law...

I'd say they're wrong. Child abuse has a clear definition where I live, and what you claim is child abuse, is not. Nor is it in any jurisdiction that I know of. I'd further say that I tend to find it more convincing when people try to reason with words, rather than just copying and pasting...

My answer would be: do what feels best to you. Don't worry about robbing anyone of joy. I've never met a dishwasher who didn't appreciate assistance.

You're wrong on both points. Regarding "the rich exist at the expense of the poor", do a quick thought experiment. Imagine that Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and other wealthy people spontaneously combusted and all of their wealth vanished instantaneously. Would this benefit the poor in any...

As it happens my wife is a minister in the ELCA, so Bishop Eaton is not the only Lutheran minister with an episcopal husband. Everyone I know in that church was happy about her election and looking forward to the changes she'll bring.

The site raises a lot of issues that would have to be dealt with one at a time. Concerning the New Testament, there is no reason to believe that anything within it was copied from any Pagan source. The life of Jesus, as described in the gospels, does not contain any striking parallels with...