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a nail from jesus’ crucifixion?

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1709, 3rd March, 2010
Claude Marriotini reports it. The story goes thusly:  The Knights Templars, a secretive religious association of the Middle Ages, are said to have had a fort.  In that fort, a nail has recently been found.  What is amazing about this is that the nail is believed to date from the 1st century A.D., the same [...]
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a post on the historical jesus . . .

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2125, 24th February, 2010
can be found here.  Its central thesis is that those who reject the gospels as historical sources do so based on bad assumptions. Related Posts:Confederacy Discussion (3): Seder, Slavery, and the Biblepurchase 1build your own jesus?The canon
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a biblical patriotism

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1425, 22nd February, 2010
What I want to suggest here is a biblical patriotism.  There are many senses in which the word ‘patriotism’ is used, so I want to make it clear that I don’t necessarily subscribe to whatever sense you’ve got in mind.  What I do subscribe to is an attitude toward my country which I believe to [...]
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a few thoughts on money

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1317, 17th February, 2010
Money is basically fake.  Currently, money in the U.S. is little but a shared delusion–there is nothing backing it up except for public perception of its worth. There are therefore certain things which thus follow from having a fiat currency, that is, a currency which has no fixed value. Related Posts:The Meek Shall Inherit the [...]
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if you feel ashamed of christianity

By mitchell b powell | Published: 0023, 9th January, 2010
If you happen to feel ashamed of Christianity, which is so often called a primitive and superstitious religion, take a look at this story.  These are the sort of things that go on in the some of the so-called traditional religions that are so often considered beautiful casualties of dehumanizing christianity. Related Posts:Christian Theism and [...]
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build your own jesus?

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1743, 28th December, 2009
There are, in a variety of places, little “Build a Bear” enterprises. They work like this: You go to a vender of build-a-bears, and the vender shows you an assortment of bear parts, which you are then free to put together into your own bear, and you pay the vender for this. That’s right. The [...]
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