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trotsky

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2. How helpful to condense so many things wrong with Christian theology into one little book.

Reply to cleanhippie (Original post)

Fri Jun 5, 2015, 11:33 AM

Jun 2015

I have long been wondering how I can communicate to my children that they are EVIL and SINFUL and DEFECTIVE thanks to a decision made by a man created by god 6000 years ago!

Thank you, C. Matthew McMahon, Ph.D., Th.D.!

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The Cage: A Young Children�s Guide to the Biblical Teaching on Hell � C. Matthew McMahon [View all] cleanhippie Jun 2015 OP

Hell blackmail to kids 5 to 9 Yorktown Jun 2015 #1

How helpful to condense so many things wrong with Christian theology into one little book. trotsky Jun 2015 #2

If you want to teach your children well, use the famous Hitchens sentence Yorktown Jun 2015 #10

"How will he escape THE CAGE?" Depends, mr blur Jun 2015 #3

He will realize edhopper Jun 2015 #4

It's nil desperandum Jun 2015 #5

More of that flat thinking again. rug Jun 2015 #6

Atheists aren't a monolithic block Lordquinton Jun 2015 #9

Neither are religions. rug Jun 2015 #11

Dishonesty and propaganda Cartoonist Jun 2015 #13

Oh, I see plenty of it outside the Bible. rug Jun 2015 #15

no rug that is a person who happens to also be an atheist. Warren Stupidity Jun 2015 #14

Ah, atheism has nothing to do with it. rug Jun 2015 #16

But isn't the proper analogy that he put himself IN the cage? brooklynite Jun 2015 #7

McMahon is free to think as he chooses. I should say that I really do not understand his views, struggle4progress Jun 2015 #8

There is a publishing company in 2015 called 'Puritan Publications'? Who knew? LeftishBrit Jun 2015 #12

Exactly. Rather an outlier. rug Jun 2015 #17