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Christianity’s Painfully Mixed Track Record on Slavery

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Valerie Tarico

Taken as a package, the Bible sends mixed messages about slavery, which is why Christian leaders used the Good Book on both sides—including in the lead up to the American civil war. Should a person be able to own another … Continue reading →

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Who, When, Why –10 Times the Bible Says Torture is OK

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Valerie Tarico

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When conservative Christians claim that the Bible God condones torture, they’re not making it up. A close look at the good book reveals why so many Christians past and present have adopted an Iron Age attitude toward brutality. The first … Continue reading →

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Did Thomas Jefferson Actually Call the Bible a Dung Hill?

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Valerie Tarico

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American Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, who authored the Declaration of Independence and served as the third president of the United States, also took a pair of scissors to the Bible, publishing a thin volume of the parts he thought worth … Continue reading →

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Why Right Wing Christians Think They are America’s Most Persecuted

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Valerie Tarico

A recent Pew study found that white American Evangelical Christians think they experience more discrimination than Blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, Atheists or Jews. Really?! Christianity is the majority religion in the U.S. and many kinds of legally ensconced religious privilege are … Continue reading →

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Five Reasons to Suspect Jesus Never Existed

Posted on August 28, 2014 by Valerie Tarico

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Most antiquities scholars think that the New Testament gospels are “mythologized history.”  In other words, based on the evidence available they think that around the start of the first century a controversial Jewish rabbi named Yeshua ben Yosef gathered a following … Continue reading →

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