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You are in my Prayers
I read your article, ''What I've learned from debating religious people around the world'' with fascination. To provide you with some insight I am what is commonly called an evangelical Christian, but could not be accurately labeled as a full Calvinist. I try my best to communicate in a manner that saves others from perdition and I likewise strive ...
Posted to Fighting Words by Steve Carlock on October 29, 2009
I always knew you had at least one puff piece in you...
...and I wish it had stayed in you. The movie you should have written about in your piece on Sarah Palin is David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1VHSQV0yn8 Don't think I'm claiming to be what Pastor Ed of Wasilla Assembly of God claims to be - a prophet. One need not have powers of prognostication to know that ...
Posted to Fighting Words by The Eel on September 9, 2008
Re: Rowling, Sacrifice, Christianity
I'm afraid I have to disagree with you on this point. Harry's survival doesn't make the book anti Christian in the least, if anything it does the opposite. It seems to me that the foundation of Christianity is not that Jesus died on a cross, but rather that by offering himself as a sacrifice he overcomes death, albeit spritual. In the case of ...
Posted to The Book Club by salty_bob on July 30, 2007