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2015-01-30 Europe

Second Danish priest doubts resurrection

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-01-30 06:03|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 I am not a practicing Christian due to a distrust of HUMAN organizations, but, in this case, why is she still a priest?

Posted by AlanC 2015-01-30 07:45|| 2015-01-30 07:45|| Front Page Top

#2 She's obviously been reading too much Joseph Campbell.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-01-30 11:28|| 2015-01-30 11:28|| Front Page Top

#3 A doubting Thomas is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience—a reference to the Apostle Thomas, who refused to believe that the resurrected Jesus had appeared to the ten other apostles, until he could see and feel the wounds received by Jesus on the cross. - wiki

Now if she were Muslim and had made such statement about Mohammad, her future would be rather short.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-01-30 11:39|| 2015-01-30 11:39|| Front Page Top

#4 “Do you really think there are no sins of intellect?”

“There are indeed, Dick. There is hidebound prejudice, and intellectual dishonesty, and timidity, and stagnation. But honest opinions fearlessly followed—they are not sins.”

“I know we used to talk that way. [...] It all turns on what are honest opinions.”

“Mine certainly were. They were not only honest but heroic. I asserted them fearlessly. When the doctrine of the Resurrection ceased to commend itself to the critical faculties which God had given me, I openly rejected it. I preached my famous sermon. I defied the whole chapter. I took every risk.”

“What risk? What was at all likely to come of it except what actually came—popularity, sales for your books, invitations, and finally a bishopric?”
The Great Divorce

Posted by James 2015-01-30 22:56|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2015-01-30 22:56|| Front Page Top

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