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    Thread: They Sold Their Souls: Religion Taking On Secular Music
Post: RE: They Sold Their Souls: Religion Taking On Secu...

I remember reading fundamentalists' attacks even on Christian rock music back in the late 90s.  Frankly, everyone is going to push back against whatever "goes against their agenda." The difference ...
Posted by chotki in Spirituality , 2018-09-05, 06:31 PM
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    Thread: Christian belief and the value of the study of the shroud of Turin
Post: RE: Scientific study of the Shroud of Turin

Brian Wrote: (2018-08-15, 07:17 AM) -- When I said "those who believe in the biblical Jesus Christ" I meant those who believe in the Jesus Christ that said "I am the way, the truth and the life, no m...
Posted by chotki in Other Topics , 2018-08-15, 04:35 PM
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    Thread: Christian belief and the value of the study of the shroud of Turin
Post: RE: Christian belief and the value of the study of...

iPsoFacTo Wrote: (2018-08-15, 04:17 AM) -- Don't know this guy. Did a quick look. Are you saying that the preponderance of evidence is that this Jesus person did exist?  However, if so, that there's ...
Posted by chotki in Other Topics , 2018-08-15, 04:23 PM
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    Thread: Christian belief and the value of the study of the shroud of Turin
Post: RE: Scientific study of the Shroud of Turin

Brian Wrote: (2018-08-14, 10:00 AM) -- Firstly, Christians - or at least those who believe in the biblical Jesus Christ - believe that Jesus is the only way to God and to eternal life.  Many of them ...
Posted by chotki in Other Topics , 2018-08-15, 03:53 AM
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    Thread: Christian belief and the value of the study of the shroud of Turin
Post: RE: Christian belief and the value of the study of...

Laird Wrote: (2018-08-09, 04:15 AM) -- I don't know any Christian who would say anything other than that s/he considers each of those the exact opposite of "loving", and the exact opposite of what Ch...
Posted by chotki in Other Topics , 2018-08-09, 06:03 PM
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    Thread: Scientific study of the Shroud of Turin
Post: RE: Scientific study of the Shroud of Turin

Valmar Wrote: (2018-07-21, 07:02 AM) -- ...in relation to some of the lectures by the reasonable Richard Carrier, who takes a mythological approach towards the Bible. -- The more I read both Carrie...
Posted by chotki in Other Topics , 2018-07-30, 05:56 PM
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    Thread: Christian belief and the value of the study of the shroud of Turin
Post: RE: Christian belief and the value of the study of...

Quote: -- The question is double: Who is a christian? and what is a christian? A purely 'subjective' or merely 'objective' answer will not do justice to the problem. We shall have to blend the two t...
Posted by chotki in Other Topics , 2018-07-26, 08:28 PM
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    Thread: The Definitive Religion And Spirituality Test
Post: RE: The Definitive Religion And Spirituality Test

Polytheism???  :LOL: I've always liked the Belief-O-Matic (http://www.beliefnet.com/entertainment/quizzes/beliefomatic.aspx) test myself.
Posted by chotki in Spirituality , 2018-07-26, 06:30 PM
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    Thread: Greetings
Post: RE: Greetings

Thanks! I'll probably be rather periodic, and especially quiet in the near future as I wrap up the PhD, but I look forward to more conversations with interesting people.
Posted by chotki in Member Introductions , 2017-08-27, 03:00 AM
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    Thread: Greetings
Post: Greetings

So Alex has erased a post of mine and suspended my account on Skeptiko. I doubt there will be any sort of appeal, so I might as well move over here.  Hello, everyone!
Posted by chotki in Member Introductions , 2017-08-27, 02:52 AM
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