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blog.kennypearce.net
The weblog of Kenny Pearce |
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lukeplant.me.uk
Most of this post was written a long time ago, but I thought it would be useful to have somewhere public that I can point people to for my answer to this question, so I'm finally publishing it. At the |
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www.byzantineambassador.com
It would be an error to treat the Christian story as merely the gradual sedimentation of various Greek philosophies narrowing and ossifying the range of interpretations that could be legitimately extrapolated from the actions of a Jewish theanthropos. Such a treatment has a long history and is based mainly on the schadenfreude secular scholarship has gleaned from caricaturing theological resolutions as the products of Roman political theatre, and celebrating the religion practised by Judaeans i |
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www.steelsnowflake.org
Paine's 'The Age of Reason' took America by storm in 1795 when both volumes were published. Paine's critique of traditional Christianity angered America's religious leaders. He ridiculed the Bible and mocked Christian beliefs like Christ's divinity, the Resurrection, and the Virgin Mary, to name a few. Instead, he argued that deism was a better and more authentic worship of God. He famously wrote that "The creation is the Bible of the deist." Sadly, Paine's deism was an idea before its time. |
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