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Why do you find the supernatural even relevant to your life?
How does it explains matters that natural venues cannot? We naturalists do not find only science when truths but just rational ones based on empiricism. Rem B.Edwards faults us naturalisits for not considering the supernatural, which he claims covers the same territory as the natural, but it depends on convoluted ad oc asumptions whilst the presumption of naturalism just procedes from the sciences, ...

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Originally posted by Jon_Day

I like you griggsy.

A number of Christian apologists have blasted skeptics for sharing common ground with the wackiest of religious believers on a number issues. For example, many atheists maintain that the Bible teaches a literal six-day creation, or that Revelation is to be taken as a literal text. Whether believers or skeptics, the people who hold such views often understand the Bible in an absolutist sense, rarely considering its historical context or the author's purpose in writing.

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The shot across the bow occurred Friday when the Alabama Supreme Court found for the Plaintiff in Hamilton v Scott. The lower courts had rule that the plaintiff could not sue because the child she lost in utero was not viable at the time of its death. The viability standard - as stupid as ever - comes straight out of Roe v Wade. The Alabama Supreme Court overturned the lower court ruling in part, namely the finding that viability mattered. Justice Parker, speaking for the court, wrote, "Roe's ...

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Honor and Shame in the Gospel of Matthew, Part IV
The Sermon on the Mount: The Beatitudes and Interpersonal Conflict

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Matthew 5

1 And seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him 2 and he opened his mouth and taught them, saying 3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven 4 Blessed are they that mourn:

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Updated May 7th 2013 at 04:50 AM by Manwë Súlimo

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