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Brian Martin
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“Scribes working throughout Christianity’s first five centuries were troubled by the New Testament’s discrepancies...In time, a process called harmonization emerged within Christian thought, which involves taking contradictory passages from different gospels and explaining away the differences by creative imagining.”
― Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve
― Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve
“Something else I learnt...is respect for reality as against all the many alternatives to it--conventional assumptions, fashionable ways of looking at things, ideologies, social or personal aspirations, fears, intentions, wishful thinking, religious claims, and the rest...”
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“What Christianity promises, I do not understand. What its god could possibly want, I have never been able to imagine, not even when I was a Christian.”
― Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve
― Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve
“Even after I lost my religious faith, Christianity remained to me deeply and resonantly interesting, and I have long believed that anyone who does not find Christianity interesting has only his or her unfamiliarity with the topic to blame.”
― Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve
― Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve
Knausgaard 1-5
— 15 members
— last activity Jun 11, 2017 06:10PM
I would like to start a group for those who have read all available English versions of Knausgaard's "My Struggle." As far as I know, those are books ...more
"Origin of Species" in Context
— 30 members
— last activity Jan 18, 2018 05:30PM
A choose-your-own adventure. Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species is one of those books that has truly changed the world, but it's just so darn ...more
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