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belief in the supernatural is a coping mechanism

By mitchell b powell | Published: 2227, 6th January, 2011
It’s true.  Our faith, unless it is a horribly ineffective one, helps us cope with what life throws at us.  So why does the title above look so atheistic?  Because when we see the statement that “Faith is a coping mechanism,” we interpret is as “Faith is merely a coping mechanism.”  We do this because [...]
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leviticus 17:7 — demons in the old testament, and goats

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1543, 27th July, 2010
I was reading the other day in my trusty NKJV, in Leviticus 17, and I came to a peculiar thing in verse 7: They shall no more offer sacrifices to demons, after whom they have played the harlot.  This shall be a statute forever throughout their generations. Related Posts:One Sons, Three Times: The Peculiar Case [...]
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posting through the deuterocanonicals: tobit 3

By mitchell b powell | Published: 1517, 19th April, 2010
A little housekeeping: Joel informs me that there are multiple textual traditions for Tobit, which are discussed in detail here, in the New English Translation of the Bible.  Which has excellent footnotes, by the way.  Anyhoo, I’ll generally be ignoring textual issues and just following and adapting the KJV text of Tobit.  But I just [...]
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