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		<title>Res Mortua</title>
		<link>http://matheton.com/2011/12/16/res-mortua/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What power executed Jesus?&#8221; &#8220;The Roman Empire.&#8221; &#8220;What was the Roman imperial religion?&#8221; &#8220;Paganism. Christianity eventually.&#8221; &#8220;And you are Christian?&#8221; &#8220;I am.&#8221; &#8220;You have chosen the Roman imperial religion?&#8221; &#8220;Are you trying to be funny? Look here, Rome converted.&#8221; &#8220;What was the change? Was the empire no longer Roman&#8211;did the ruling race pass off the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matheton.com&amp;blog=9609681&amp;post=1332&amp;subd=matheton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thou shalt</title>
		<link>http://matheton.com/2010/09/17/thou-shalt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is generally accepted &#8212; among those who accept Divine Authority &#8212; that having heard the Divine Voice is an advantage: that the religious legalist enjoys knowledge and favor above the rest of humankind. But Paul Envoy says that those claiming this advantage may be special mainly in that they are specially cursed among humankind: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matheton.com&amp;blog=9609681&amp;post=1273&amp;subd=matheton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saver</title>
		<link>http://matheton.com/2010/07/20/saver/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This talisman the Evangelicals flaunt, that they have said words to make Jesus their personal savior, is easily debunked with a little observation. So Jesus you have contracted as your own personal rescuer? Then what are these bills for house insurance, health insurance? What is this record of your having called the fire department, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matheton.com&amp;blog=9609681&amp;post=1248&amp;subd=matheton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Special</title>
		<link>http://matheton.com/2010/07/05/special/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everywhere I read a Christian writing about God, these days, she seeks miracles. She dwells upon whether God may have intervened in her life in some forgotten way or whether God can be made to intervene in her life in future. Have Christians never read, &#8220;A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign&#8221;? Yesterday [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matheton.com&amp;blog=9609681&amp;post=1242&amp;subd=matheton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Church&#8217;s book</title>
		<link>http://matheton.com/2010/06/11/churchs-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As long as the church translates scriptures, scriptures are much in danger of sounding like the church.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matheton.com&amp;blog=9609681&amp;post=1240&amp;subd=matheton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heroine</title>
		<link>http://matheton.com/2010/02/27/heroine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 03:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;But, semantics aside, the general practice of modern English translators of suppressing the &#8216;and&#8217; when it is attached to a verb has the effect of changing the tempo, rhythm, and construction of events in biblical narrative. Let me illustrate by quoting a narrative sequence in Genesis 24 first in my own version, which reproduces every [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matheton.com&amp;blog=9609681&amp;post=1310&amp;subd=matheton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shaky</title>
		<link>http://matheton.com/2010/02/27/shaky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 03:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Broadly speaking, one may say that in the case of the modern revisions, the problem is a shaky sense of English and in the case of the King James Version, a shaky sense of Hebrew.&#8221; &#8211; Robert Alter (He goes on to show that the modern versions&#8217; sense of Hebrew is generally worse than the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matheton.com&amp;blog=9609681&amp;post=1308&amp;subd=matheton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>X 3</title>
		<link>http://matheton.com/2010/02/27/x-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you noticed that the unique Evangelicalist symbol is the three crosses? Whether on church side or letterhead, it is the symbol that other religious groups will not be found to share. I have never given this much thought, or have perceived it vaguely as a slap at Rome; but now I think it is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matheton.com&amp;blog=9609681&amp;post=1287&amp;subd=matheton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To hell with him</title>
		<link>http://matheton.com/2010/02/18/to-hell-with-him/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran across a poignant thread at an Evangelicalist website yesterday; a young man begs to know if his father is in hell or in heaven. I&#8217;ll reproduce parts of the thread below, heavily edited: I am desperate and seek answers. Although my dad led a sinful life he knew God. A few weeks ago, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matheton.com&amp;blog=9609681&amp;post=1306&amp;subd=matheton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Knot</title>
		<link>http://matheton.com/2010/01/13/knot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In ancient Greece, no specific ceremony was required for marriage, only mutual agreement and the fact that the couple must regard each other as husband and wife accordingly. Married Greek women had few rights; for example, a woman whose father died without sons was forced to divorce and marry a cousin. In Rome, marriage and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=matheton.com&amp;blog=9609681&amp;post=1294&amp;subd=matheton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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