Rescuing Christian Faith

Karl Marx called religion the opium of the people. When Christianity teaches people to trudge through life on this earth so they can find eternal happiness in heaven, Marx is right. That is not the path to healthy abundance.

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Broken Christianity’s teaching that Jesus died so God could forgive you has more to do with 11th Century feudal culture and 16th Century European courtrooms than it does the Bible. So where did this idea come from and what does the Bible say?

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Renown atheist Christopher Hitchens was right, God is not great. At least not the God of a broken Christianity. In my life, nothing embodies this more than part of the Lutheran church service called the confession.

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There was only one Son of God and Prince of Peace in the Roman Empire. Who else could even make a claim? After all, the armies operating under Augustus Caesar brought the Pax Romana (the Peace of Rome) to the ancient world. No wonder the world turned upside down when an itinerant peasant preacher named Jesus of Nazareth, a man without an army or cultural authority, started using those titles as well.

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Contrary to popular Christian belief, the Bible is not the Word of God. Where did I learn this? The Bible.

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