I’m Gonna Let it Shine…

Jesus once said:
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
– Matthew 5.16
Some other people have said:
It is striking that the early Quaker abolitionists and Christian pacifists in different ages had a public impact precisely by witness rather than by argument according to ‘publicly acceptable’ [...]

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Does Christianity Have Faults?

Particularly when it comes to Christianity, the past is often seen by outsiders as merely a collection of tableaux that sit fixed in one’s mind as stark moral lessons: Christians mounted bloody Crusades against noble Muslims; Christians burned hapless women as witches; Christians foolishly resisted scientists such as Galileo and Darwin; Christians oppressed women and [...]

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Atheism vs. Theism: The Wrong Paradigm?

 
Controversy over Christianity is almost never conducted in the terms in which it is usually discussed by professional apologists, namely, “theism versus atheism”. The options are far wider that these anachronistic choices – choices that smack of Enlightenment-era European debates. To be sure, one might encounter nowadays a discussion between a [...]

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