Hypatia was an ancient female philosopher who taught neoplatonism. Though she saw rationality in the universe that was in some sense divine, she did not ascribe to any particular god and welcomed students of all backgrounds to her school. See the 5 minute video here to learn about Hypatia and how she was brutally murdered … Hypatia of Alexandria

Check out this week’s Misquoting Jesus podcast to see why Bart thinks Jesus was left on the cross to be food for the birds! Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional)

I come from the Continental Philosophy tradition and this professor’s sentiments are mine as well: Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional)

In this video, a sociologist shows that on issue after issue (eg Racism), secular people take a more ethical stance than strongly religious people. For example, the more religious someone is, the less likely they are to believe climate change science or to do anything about it. Stay through to the end of the video … Are Religious People or Secular People More Ethical?

I come to the end of blogging through the first half of “Lamb of the Free” which looks at OT sacrifices. We saw that while the day of atonement/decontamination was basically a factory reboot of the sanctuary. However, major moral sin couldn’t be addressed through purgation, and so actually contaminated the land itself. Once the … Lamb of the Free (conclusion)

One of the key takeaways from Rillera is that kipper is about the individual doing their part to help decontaminate the holy place from contamination, not an animal substituting for the individual. We read as an analogy to a child taking care of a pet: Blood here is not connected to death as per substitutionary … Lamb of the Free (10)

We lost philosopher and major secular activist Daniel Dennett today. RIP Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional)

As I’ve been reading along the author’s study of sacrifice in the old testament, both of purification and atonement, what is clear with atoning sacrifices the issue isn’t the salvation of the individual who sinned, but rather sin was a aerial miasma thought to contaminate the holy place and the land which could prevent God … Lamb of the Free (9)

As long as there have been Jesus followers the apocalypse warning alarm has been sounding. Jesus thought the end of the age was coming in the lifetime of his disciples, and Paul thought the end had already started. Skip forward a few thousand years, and the actions of Iran against Israel yesterday have prompted megachurch … The Apocalypse is Imminent, as usual

Rillaro points our that Jesus is most basically seen in one sense as the passover lamb. In the chapter currently under consideration, we see in detail passover is not an atonement ritual. He summarizes: This chapter is good because it looks at the difference between atoning and non atoning rituals and what function they served … Lamb of the Free (8)