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Rich Colbert's avatar

I start each day reading your blog followed by Professor Richardson - therapeutic and informative. Thank you.

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Sharon Foster (CT)'s avatar

I just finished reading Armageddon, by Bart Ehrman, followed by God & Empire, by John Dominic Crossan.

I grew up in a church that pretty much ignored the Revelation of John except for a few of the snippets about hope and faith, so the whole muscular Republican Jesus with an AR-15 is foreign to me. Blasphemy, even. These two books went a long way toward explaining why so many who call themselves Christians have chosen the avenging Jesus of Revelation. Jesus of the Gospels, Acts, and Paul's Letters is ancient history. Avenging Jesus is the future. He is going to lead them in the Final Battle, and so they better have guns, guns, and more guns.

Deprogramming them is not an option. We are going to have to find a way forward without them.

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