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	Book in progress Jesus Mortal notes toward a book on historical and ahistorical Jesus Best religion articles Christianity and equality Jesus: 1st Century Egalitarian Jesus the relativist morals and laws To do unto others or not Jesus and Confucious face off Other religion articles Little popes Top-ranking Protestant churchmen Nonchristian Christmas Unitarian Christmas pageant Yahweh as bully trees of knowledge and life Paul the popularizer universalizing Jesus' message Give me back my material world! concrete and abstract Human nature as its own opposite divine and profane Classic concepts old-time religion Hell is vulgar contemptible display of petty viciousness Proof that God exists (probably) error and belief Catholic doublespeak irony and doctrine Benedict says nothing, Protestants protest limits of ecumenicism Uncategorizable Jesus to rub or not to rub, there's the rub Hell and Sunday school failed teenage rebellion Retreat of Bible science history of capitulation Thomas Jefferson, the slave-raping hero moral inconsistency and human identity I, secular humanist adopting others' label Islam, religion of tomorrow? dominant monotheism of the future Jesus the wise man C.S. Lewis's feeble argument The supreme God, his son, and their foe an ancient story Progression of judgship opportunism and doctrine God rested Elohim the semipotent WWJD and "The Passion of the Christ" Jesus as moral paragon or divine sacrifice Condoms for Catholics? whether the new pope will change course Slavery and relativism victory of the Golden Rule over Biblical tradition Geoff, JoT Christ's failure implications of fire-and-brimstone Christianity Sean, JoT Latter Day Saints a thoroughly American religion Atheism and humility why I don't believe in gods Damnation wager logic and insanity No good reason why things happen Boy Scouts at public schools algebra of discrimination Religious conservatives in America a defining element of US politics Free will do people "really" have it? Ninkasi, goddess of beer divinity then and now Bad things and good people why one happens to the other Ten Commandments assorted commentary Law and morality subjectivity and objectivity Christ and EU constitution constitution of the European Union Reincarnation and oppression the Brahmins' millennia-long con job Race, religion, and identity how race and religion justify in-groups Irrational atheists cause, effect, science, and atheism "Roman Catholic" why that's a contradiction in terms The Pope and capital punishment history, authority, fallibility Gospel of "John" reinvention of Jesus Creationism as anti-theory whether evolution is "just a theory" 50% chance you're God omniscience and experience Treaty of Tripoli whether the US was founded on Christianity 10% of faith logic and certainty Sex during menstruation neglected sin Abortion protects an endangered soul reductio ad absurdum Islam is a religion of peace yadda yadda yadda a Muslim's response Southern Baptists the nation's biggest Protestant denomination Plato's myth of heaven and hell where we get these ideas Christian tribe new wine in old vessels Cain's sin what he did to displease God Andrea Yates did the right thing a mother's self-sacrifice Sacraments one way clerics gained power over the laity "Christ" and "God" we-all vs. we-others Marines in Heaven slamming on a cartoon Lao Tzu my favorite wise man Three kings at the manger not Is it fair to call the terrorists "monotheist extremists"? call a Wahhabi a Wahhabi My god-given right to be an atheist Love and hate opposites? Religion in my RPGs published and unpublished DragonRaid Christian RPG from the 80s Samson as Terrorist Bible hero revisited The ether, a vestige of God the objective judge of physics Can the West and the Muslim world co-exist? Are Jews "pigs and monkeys"? what the Koran says Jehovah's clones selfhood and the resurrection of the body Apocalypse of St, Karl Communist Manifesto as "end times" lit St. Paul as Satan's dupe who was the spirit of light on the road to Damascus? Angels in Heaven Plato strikes again

							Religion in the News June 2006 Praying Children Killed by Lightning In April, five children on a hilltop were killed when the metal cross at which they were praying was struck by lightning. This event proves: A. The LORD moves in mysterious ways. B. Roman Catholicism is the Antichrists's religion and God is wroth. C. "I don't want to start any blasphemous rumors, but I think that God's got a sick sense of humor, and when I die I expect to find him laughing." D. It's a mistake to draw spiritual conclusions from natural events. July 2005 No Creationist Display at Zoo The Tulsa Park and Recreation Board reversed itself after a public outcry. See below. June 2005 Creationist Display in Tulsa Zoo The Tulsa Park and Recreation Board voted to add a display in the zoo that will depict one of the two biblical accounts of creation. They did it to be fair to Christianity, since there are already Hindu and Native American religious references in the zoo. But if Christianity has the special status of being the only religion that you have to be "fair" to, that's not fair. Fair would be representing every religion on the planet. Wiccans Not to Teach Son Their Religion In a divorce decree, Judge Cale J. Bradford has forbidden Wiccans Thomas E. Jones Jr. and his ex-wife, Tammie U. Bristol, from exposing their son to "non-mainstream religious beliefs and rituals." So much for "justice and liberty for all." Wiccan Prayers Not Equal The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled a Virginia county can refuse to let Wiccan practitioner Cynthia Simpson give the invocation at its meetings by limiting the privilege to clergy representing Judeo-Christian monotheism. So much for, well, you know.