Joshua died. I’d never actually met him in person, but a number of my acquaintances knew him personally and took it quite hard at first. It was only a couple days after the funeral when I ran into Johnny, Joshua’s best friend. We decided to catch up that night, and over drinks he and I…
Just because it's "orthodox" doesn't mean it's true
Category Archives: contradictions
The Evangelical Abortion Inconsistency
If you’ve read many of my posts, you know by now that one of the most consistent traits of traditionalist Christians is that they’re not very consistent in their theological thinking. This is possibly no more obvious than in their views on the subject of abortion. Most evangelicals I know of, for instance, are extremely…
Smoke and Mirrors
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the last little while, it’s that very little is actually what it seems. Often something that seems like a random detail is actually there to distract us from something bigger (or something huge will be staged to create support for something that people would otherwise protest). Of course…
Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruits
I have had people of various religions and denominations try to convince me that their set of doctrines are the truth and that if I don’t follow their particular philosophy then I will come to a bad end (or at least not as good an end as I could). With so many different ideologies competing…
Do You Believe What Jesus Taught?
When discussing or debating Universal Reconciliation with Christians who hold the traditional views of heaven and hell I will often be told that Jesus taught everlasting torment in hell for non-believers so we have to believe it. Whether or not He did (and you all know by now that I don’t believe He did), I…
The Everlasting Hell Challenge
On a Christian message board I sometimes visit we’ve been discussing the issue of hell which got me to thinking and I came up with a challenge for Protestant Christians who base their theology on the Bible alone: Demonstrate convincingly that the idea that “those who die without putting their faith in Jesus Christ alone…
