Warning: This article contains spoilers of both the movie Avengers: Infinity War and the T.V. Series WandaVision WandaVision and the ship of Theseus Part 1. My family and I have been enjoying the Marvel series WandaVision on the Disney+ streaming service. The series just concluded a few weeks ago, and the last episode featured a fascinating thought experiment, […]
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New demands for moral perfection. If you’ve been a Christian for any amount of time, you have an understanding of God’s standard for morality. And that standard is perfection. Any violation of the moral standard of perfection condemns us. Without intercession and forgiveness, we are punished for eternity for our transgressions. Atheists will often rail at the thought of […]
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How sure are you Christianity is true? We’ve done articles previously on Peter Boghossian and his “Manual for creating atheists”. One of the standard moves of these Street Epistemologists is to ask you a question. And that question is often “How sure are you Christianity is true”? They will even go so far as to ask you to […]
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To understand any concepts of class, identity, or oppression, we need to answer the question, “What is truth, and can we know it?” How Critical Theory answers that question shapes every other part of the view.
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Do only Christians believe in exclusivism? Christians are often chided for believing that Jesus is the only way to heaven. How narrow-minded. How arrogant! Out of all the beliefs out there, and all of the different gods, why think yours is the only right one? We’ve talked before about the justification for believing that Jesus is the only […]
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People discussed Critical Theory everywhere, from the pastor’s pulpit to the presidential debates. Depending on who you listened to, you probably heard it described as either an essential and valuable way to view racial injustice or false teaching that threatens to tear us apart.
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Avoid “Cargo Drop” Christianity. We’ve been talking about the John Frum cult on the Pacific Island of Tanna. This cult originated from natives on the island encountering the technologically superior cultures of Japan and The United States in World War II. When these forces invaded their island, the natives were astonished at the supplies that would fall from […]
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I didn’t plan on discussing Critical Theory until I found myself in a university class on it. Here are my adventures in Critical Theory Class
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John Frum and Colonialism. We’ve been hearing a lot about colonialism lately. The idea that it was wrong for one society, especially powerful Western societies, to go into another country and take if over. This is not only true politically, but also religiously. The idea of evangelizing to another culture is now looked at as a bad thing. The […]
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John Frum and Cargo Cults. Sometime when you write a blog on religion, topics can be hard to come by. There are days when you feel like you’ve covered every possible subject on the matter. It highlights the problem finite humans have in describing and talking about an infinite being. I have to actively search out new […]
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