Testosterone Trumps Theology (Always?)
It's not--ultimately--about atheism vs theism, polytheism vs monotheism, goddesses vs gods, or even God-as-She vs God-as-He. It's about testosterone.
It's not--ultimately--about atheism vs theism, polytheism vs monotheism, goddesses vs gods, or even God-as-She vs God-as-He. It's about testosterone.
Prayer is a relationship not just an action and it comes in both primary and secondary modes.
The definitive discovery of Jesus remains would not change my faith in Christianity because the bodily resurrection of Jesus is a metaphorical parable about the meaning of Jesus’ life and death and not an historical account about the status of Jesus’ corpse and tomb.
The answer from within my Christian tradition is both/and rather than either/or. And, for me, no one ever expressed better than the apostle Paul that creative dialectic of “being saved” and “doing good."
On the one hand, questioning is the voice of conscience and the absence of one is the death of the other. So Socrates, for example, questioned relentlessly the contemporary faith of his fellow-Athenians and died a martyr for his too-successful examinations.
One verse in one psalm is the lens through which I see all else in—since I am a Christian—the Christian Bible. It is Psalm 82:5b which says, within its context, that, “injustice shakes the foundations of the earth.”
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