December 2011
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Why should I care about the US Constitution?
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Very occasionally I’ll be debating atheism with a Christian, and then suddenly they’ll play the US ‘Christian nation’ card. This reflects the wide belief amongst many US conservative Christians that the US was founded as a Christian nation- where the bible had an important role in forming the government. This so often is based on the assumption...
dreamkonstantine asked: By the way, there are other histories written around the same time that resemble the style of those written in the Bible, which is evidence for the fact that the histories in the Bible are just that, history.
dreamkonstantine asked: Hi! I am not a Christian, but I have studied Christianity. I come completely in peace. I just need to say that there are some aspects about reading the bible that you have overlooked. There are parts of the Bible which are supposed to be written as history (e.g. the Gospels), while some as allegory (e.g. Jesus' parables). Christians don't assume that the allegories happened, because...
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How to read the bible -
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Christians often accuse me of not ‘reading the bible’ properly. Well, aside from those that assume I haven’t read the bible. But really, it’s not too hard to use the Christian methodology to reading the bible.
1. Something in the bible is vaguely historically true (e.g. Ninveh was a real ancient city). Xtian response: now everything about the bible...