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...struggling Christian, the theory of religion professor Elaine Pagels?that John intended his Gospel to debunk and debase the Gospel of Thomas?is as plausible as it is unsettling. If Pagels is correct, does John play equally fast and loose with the truth in the sayings he attributes to Jesus? John's Gospel is the most direct assertion that Jesus is the son of God, and if this Gospel were put aside as unreliable, then Christians would be much closer to being left with a man who is merely another prophet, a peer of Confucius, Buddha and Muhammad, but nothing...
...life of Jesus is like a Rorschach test: people look at it and see what they want to. That applies to us atheists, too. We see continuing confirmation of what we've long contended?that man created God in his own image. Richard S. Russell Madison...
...only way to feel less afraid, according to our president, is to drop bombs—sort of the national equivalent of a sigh of relief. But, while the president ponders the question of “Who Would Jesus Bomb?” there are some hints that it’s time to kick our fear habit. For instance, New Yorkers are, by and large, not scared. For some reason the people of New York seem a lot more confident and a lot less fearful about terrorism than people from Bush’s red states. House Majority...
...violence. In 2003 Kill Bill Vol. 1--which made Pulp look like Toy Story--landed nearly as softly as villainess Lucy Liu did when she collapsed bloodily into the snow in its climax. Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, involving a theory that Mary Magdalene may have been Jesus' wife and the mother of his child, intrigued readers and sold millions of copies, but it was ABC News that really took religious fire when it raised the same question in a prime-time special. In fact, it was easier for a work to provoke discussion...
...people are good and ready) were full of great, Kinks-inspired guitar-pop songs about contemporary suburban characters like themselves. "When we first started writing songs," says Schlesinger, "we felt like we needed to write about grand, universal themes like 'I am the King of Pain.' I remember thinking, Jesus Christ, how do you write something like that, especially if you're from New Jersey?" So instead they wrote Red Dragon Tattoo, about an exuberant moron who gets inked to impress a girl, and Utopia Parkway, which described guys a shade too old to be posting flyers for their band...