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Tag: moral responsibility
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Not All Churches
I have a rule I make very few exceptions for. Don’t debate on social media. Ideas matter. But online, what rarely does is the way they are handled. Most exchanges are performances. Positions are staked, identities signalled, and lines drawn. The aim is seldom understanding. It is recognition. Applause. Survival. Social media rewards vociferousness without…
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No, I’m not afraid of Hell
One of the most interesting conversations I had after leaving Christianity took place not in anger, or debate, but in grief. I had named my departure publicly in a Facebook post accompanied by an essay I titled, And Thus Man Created God in His Image. It was not written to provoke, but to tell the…
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What Belief Owed Love
I once believed faith required certainty to survive. I am learning that honesty sustains it far better. I recently found something I wrote almost twenty years ago. It is long, confident, and entirely sure of where history is headed. It speaks of cosmic wars, divine law, heavenly sanctuaries, and a God steadily revealing truth through…
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Between Faith and Evidence
Misused History and Manufactured Certainty I recently read an essay called The Truth Will Set You Free. It was written as a sincere critique of Christian participation in practices the author deemed impure. It spoke of divine names, corrupted traditions, and a call to return to a faith untainted by history or human hands. But…
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P.S. A Response To My Christian Friends
I know how this essay will be read by many Christians, because I once read others the same way. With concern. With defensiveness. With a quiet sense that something precious is being threatened. The instinct is not malicious. It is protective. Faith, for many, is not merely a set of propositions, but a moral compass,…
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Unequally Yoked
A Family That Prays Together… When people learn that I have left Christianity, and the reasons why I reject the God of classical theism, they rarely seek to engage the substance of the arguments I offer. The conversation seldom turns on whether my conclusions are consistent with the scholarly consensus on religious history, whether they…
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