Who spoke in my church this morning:

“God,” from an evolutionary standpoint, is nothing so trivial or inconsequential as a supreme landlord residing off the planet and outside the universe-an otherworldly entity whose primary business is engaging in unnatural acts (supernatural interventions). As I’m using the term, “God” cannot possibly be less ( Read more... )

1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Liberal Quakers (94%)
3. Neo-Pagan (91%)
4. Reform Judaism (85%)

We have a little change from my usual line-up of Belief-O-Matic results ( Read more... )

Okay, we've apparently got Catholic theologians in one corner talking about faith issues; and the atheist is in the other, pumping his fist in the air and crowing about how even Mother Teresa "knew there was no God" or whatever ( Read more... )

1. Liberal Quakers (100%)
2. Unitarian Universalism (94%)
3. Reform Judaism (93%)
4. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (89%)

I retake the Belief-O-Matic periodically, and generally get these four results, in no particular order, with occasional ventures (so far) into Orthodox Quaker (I think that's what they call it), Baha'i and Neo- ( Read more... )

As seen on christianleft:

You scored as Pelagianism. You are a Pelagian. You reject ideas about man's fallen human nature and believe that as a result we are able to fully obey God. You are the first Briton to contribute significantly to Christian thought, but you're still excommunicated in 417.

Pelagianism
83%
Chalcedon compliant
75%
Socinianism
50%
Monophysitism
50 ( Read more... )

This week, I passed a church that had the old "You catch them, God will clean them" slogan on its marquee thingy.

Commonly, people interpret this to mean "get out there and 'sell' Jesus to the 'unsaved.'"

But the exact quote, is "Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men." Matthew 4:19 ( Read more... )

The real motive at work here, I suspect, has far less to do with any actual or perceived threat to the "institution of marriage" than it does with the terrifying suspicion that their own fundamentalist faith is too flimsy to survive in a pluralist public square. Their faith is so weak, so fragile, that the mere existence of other viewpoints -- and ( Read more... )

One of the big conundrums of Christianity is how God could be "down" here as Jesus and "up" there at the same time.

Maybe he wasn't.

Maybe science is something God invented in 4 BC to automate what he'd been doing "by hand" prior to that so he could take 33 years off?

xposted to backtobeginningETA: Of course this isn't what I believe. I believe that God ( Read more... )

Conservative U.S. evangelist Pat Robertson, who called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, said on Wednesday he was misinterpreted and there were a number of ways to "take him out" including kidnapping.

I took this What is Your Religious Philosophy quizzie, and apparently they don't have a response for a Christian Pantheist, so I kept coming up as ( 'Agonistic' )