http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/13/hitchens-brothers-square-off-in-debate-over-god-in-civilization/?hpt=Mid I was reading this article. And if you have time, you should too. And something that one of the debaters said was essentially this -- because there are people in this world who pick and choose aspects of their religion, they were proving that there is not a need for God for the survival of a civilization.. and perhaps his greater point was that there is not a God. I think that to be too significant to read without evaluating it to some extent. As Christians do we pick and choose what we like and what we don't like from the Bible. Do we down play the holiness and righteousness of God so that we can be entertained and have the pleasures of this world? You see, when we "pick and choose" from God's word, when we start defining what is good and bad, holy and unholy we are discrediting the divine authorship of the Bible. By doing so, we are advocating that the...
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