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christianity, UU
Which Christianity are you rejecting?
08.12.07 | Permalink | 22 CommentsTo follow up on my questions for non-Christian UUs, I’m wondering which version of the Christian story you are rejecting. This sort of gets to the post at Philocrites a bit ago that called out how the version of Christianity we say we reject is a good 300 years old. So what about the version […]
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christianity, constantine, mormons, unitarianism
Ron’s 300-year plan for Unitarianism
03.29.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Ron’s 300-year plan for UnitarianismDid you know that when Christianity got the nod from Emperor Constantine in 325 or so, Christians were less than a third of folks in the Roman Empire? Or that in 300 they were only 10%? And in 200 less than one percent? Though the Mormons are likely the ones who will cover this tune, […]
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christianity, christians, liberals, nietzsche, zarathustra
Tarantulas
One more Zarathustra passage, this time on Christianity and damn liberal hippies. This one always makes me think of that part of Lord of the Rings when Frodo is trapped in the cave by that spider:
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africa, chrislam, christianity, islam, new-religions, religion
The coming of Chrislam
01.26.06 | Permalink | 2 CommentsBack in 1999, when grunge was still a fresh memory, I remember reading a newsweekly’s predictions for the coming millennium. One author wrote of the coming of [tag]Chrislam[/tag], a merger of [tag]Christian[/tag] and [tag]Islamic[/tag] [tag]fundamentalism[/tag]. I scoffed at his ignorance of religion—typical journalist. Then Rebecca Blood lets us know that Chrislam is, in fact, real—and […]
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christianity, community-organizing, early-church, leadership, organizational-structure, paganism, pbs, roman-empire
Community organization and religious movements
01.13.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Community organization and religious movementsA nifty little PBS essay on the Early Church points out how crucial Christianity’s down-to-earth organizational structure was to its success in the Roman Empire. The author attributes its success to several things: The bewildering array of new gods and cults available to Romans could be radically simplified by converting to Christianity. Conversion, rather than […]
