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Lots of people get these confused. The Virgin Birth of Christ, which is  taught in Matthew and Luke, says that Christ was conceived in ...

“A man who said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic–on a level with the man who s...

Dawkins  is kind of the Donald  Trump of atheism. But he has his following, just as Trump does. 

Apparently slaveowners were afraid to let their slaves read the whole thing, because they might rebel if they read it. Here. 

I  think it is  Dawkins'  view that you should never take anything on pure faith. But on the one hand, if you take statement X, and say ...

I think the tendency on the part of people of a more conservative bent to nonetheless find gay marriage acceptable depends largely on their ...

It is a slogan to say that allowing gay marriage allows gay people to be who they are.  Is a person's true identity to be found in the...

Why do we always punt to the government to decide whether something is right or not? That is, if we think something is wrong, we want the go...

It seems to me that you could take the anti-gay position from a theological point of view (homosexuality is wrong in God's eyes), and st...

People who accept traditional understandings of these monotheistic religions have a greater tendency to oppose abortion that those who are, ...

What exactly is packed into the idea of murder is interesting. For example, if you do not believe that the things whose life you are takin...

Pro-lifers believe that abortion is not currently a crime, due to Roe v. Wade, but it should be one. Though, interestingly enough, they o...

Roe is based on this argument: 1. The right to bodily autonomy, and privacy with respect to medical decisions (absence any superior count...

I've never understood the significance of the heartbeat in the abortion controversy. The brain, not the heart, is the organ of thought, ...

If you are a relativist, whether the Holocaust was OK is just a matter of human perspective. If the Nazis had won WWII, and history is writt...

There are, unfortunately forms of anti-Semitism that Christians have engaged in. Hitler's version of anti-Semitism, however, is really i...

The  position of the Catholic Church on this is  interesting. They don't think, per  se , that there is  anything sinful about having a ...

Neither soft nor hard determinists believe that we are the original sources or causes of our actions. My act may be caused by my choice, bu...

Did Mueller come up with nothing? Certainly not. Just not the slam-dunk "unindicted co-conspirator" affirmation that might have ...

In general, I find political parties to be conglomerations of moral, nonmoral, and immoral concerns, producing some pretty accidental allian...