The genius of Paul is seen in how he appropriated Jesus' death to make Pharisaism safe for the whole world

 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. 

-- Ephesians 2:11ff.

The rise of The Nones will plateau because . . .

 Atheists Just Don't Have Many Kids:

. . . look at the change in the atheist/agnostic share of the adult population in recent years. In 2013, it was 10%. In 2016, it was 12%. In November of 2022, it was still 12%. ... It’s harder for a “religion” to grow if it has to achieve that growth largely through conversion.

Thou shalt not blaspheme . . . against The Left lol

 

In 2022, he repeatedly delighted in misquoting Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians, in which the apostle talks about “putting on the full armor of God.” Where Paul, of course, was armoring against the Devil, DeSantis, almost blasphemously, was suiting up to “stand against the left and its schemes.”

-- Jacob Lupfer, op-ed for Religion News Service here, who may fairly be described as on The Sojourners left. 

The Party of Abortion, Pedophilia, Child Mutilation, Homosexuality, and Anti-White Racism is deeply, deeply offended.

How to reap the whirlwind

 I'd be torn in pieces ere I'd trust a woman

With wind.

 

-- Ben Jonson

Christianity Today Magazine was founded to counter the liberalism of The Christian Century, but now it's become its self-loathing mirror image

The Korean American who wrote this story and fancies herself a person of color spends ZERO time, ZIP, ZILCH, NADA, contemplating the endemic racism of her home country against actual people of color, nor how the supposedly racist West's American heirs numbering over 36,000 bled and died so her home country could be free from communist tyranny, including about 3,400 African Americans.

Instead of fixing what's wrong with her own country she's here telling us what's wrong with ours, and Christianity Today wants you to know it.

Bunch of pompous ingrates.

 

 

Two kings in man as well as herbs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
  And vice sometime by action dignified.

Within the infant rind of this weak flower
  Poison hath residence and medicine power: 

For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each
  part; Being tasted, stays all senses with the heart.

 
Two such opposèd kings encamp them still
  In man as well as herbs—grace and rude will; 

And where the worser is predominant,
  Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.

-- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 3

For never was more need

  

 

 

 

  And while it lasts, let buffoonery succeed,

To make us laugh; for never was more need.

-- John Dryden

The one God is not feminine μία, by definition, and neither is the mediator

 οὐδεὶς ἀγαθός· εἰ μὴ εἷς ὅ Θεός. -- Matthew 19:17
 οὐδεὶς ἀγαθὸς εἰ μὴ εἷς ὁ θεός. -- Mark 10:18
 οὐδεὶς ἀγαθὸς εἰ μὴ εἷς ὁ θεός. -- Luke 18:19

Ἄκουε Ἰσραήλ κύριος ὁ θεὸς ἡμῶν κύριος εἷς ἐστίν. ... καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ ὁ γραμματεύς Καλῶς διδάσκαλε ἐπ᾽ ἀληθείας εἶπας, ὅτι εἷς ἐστιν Θεὸς, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἄλλος πλὴν αὐτοῦ· -- Mark 12:29,32

εἷς γὰρ θεός εἷς καὶ μεσίτης θεοῦ καὶ ἀνθρώπων ἄνθρωπος Χριστὸς Ἰησοῦς. -- I Timothy 2:5