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Criminal pleads to go back to prison after serving sentence in monastery

Monday, August 21st, 2017

A convicted criminal who was serving out his sentence in a monastery has escaped for the second time and asked to be sent back to prison because life was too tough. Continue reading

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- Richard Duthie Kieran, I really have to question that Christianity is "the greatest message in the world". Maybe the reason the delivery gets messed up is because it just isn't the greatest message in the world. Far from it, because that assumes we were born sick and with any considered, rational analysis done, it...
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- Kieran I once read a line that makes more and more sense as years go buy. I can really empathise with Richard's journey. :"Christianity has the greatest message in the world but we really mess it up in getting it across." We create a huge theology out of the Genesis story without realising that evolution...
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- Richard Duthie Thank you Kieran for your invitation. Rather than respond with anything, as is possible to do, I wanted to wait to see if anything said yes to me. And it might well not have. But it did. A bit after midnight last night I was struck with this one sentence and immediately wrote it down in case it...
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- Sue Sallam The depiction of Jesus as black is almost as bad as depicting him as blond and blue eyed. As we don’t know what Jesus looked like, we should follow the genetic attributes of those who lived in the area at the time. Jesus’s earth parents were both Jewish. Thus a depiction of a non white Jesus...
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