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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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historyforatheists.com
Alec Ryrie, Unbelievers - An Emotional History of Doubt (William Collins, 2019) 262 pp. We unbelievers are often mentioned in passing in histories of religion, but there are only a few works of history that focus on those of us who reject religion or who never held religious beliefs at all. This one is by a scholar who is a Christian, but one who strives to give a balanced and nuanced view of how various modern Western strains of unbelief... Read More Read More |
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bibleinterp.arizona.edu
[AI summary] The text explores the diverse beliefs about death and the afterlife in ancient Near Eastern cultures, particularly focusing on Jewish and early Christian traditions during the Second Temple Period. It highlights how various communities addressed theodicy, the problem of evil, by proposing that the righteous would be rewarded and the wicked punished in the afterlife. The discussion includes different views on resurrection, immortality, and eternal life, with references to key texts like the Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, and the New Testament. The text also notes the influence of Greek philosophy on Jewish thought, as seen in figures like Philo of Alexandria, and how these ideas shaped early Christian doctrines, particularly the belief in Jesus' resu... |
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www.listchallenges.com
Here are the books that I read during the last four months of the year in 2020. A bit of a mix. I wonder if you have read them all... |
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