Christmas is about unity, not divisiveness. Yet, for those who refuse to understand the true essence of this festival, learning more about its pagan origins might help.
There is a motto used by the Mexican Mafia that says, "Blood In, blood out," the idea being that to join, you must kill someone; your death (natural or by being killed) is the only way out of the gang.
As I expected, the selection of Pope Francis marked the beginning of some very interesting and substantial changes. Here, I attempt to deconstruct and explain what’s happening.
If evangelical Christians started caring about the things they were supposed to, atheists might not have as much to fight with them about. What would we do then?
The threat of Hell to many religious folk is enough to leave them whimpering in a corner with their knees pulled up to their chest, and ready to sprint to the nearest confession box. But what if Hell was the greatest lie to have ever been formulated?
People regularly get away with crimes, even homicide, yet escape justice because the harm was caused in the name of religion or superstition. Civil society needs to treat these actions as the crimes against innocents that they are.
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