Questions tagged [christianity]
the religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices.
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Did the religious doctrine of Predestination trigger chronic nightmares in many New England children before the 19th century?
Author Susan Cain, in her 2022 pop psychology book Bittersweet, provides the following unsourced observation (p. 123-124):
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Is the Greek Orthodox church worth 700 billion Euros?
This Wikipedia list puts the Greek Orthodox church's net worth at 700B Euros in 2011 (about 974B USD), above any branch of the Catholic church or other religion. Its source is France 24, but I am not ...
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Did Elvis Mbonye predict the 2012 Ugandan helicopter crash, 2018 Oscar winners, and Kenyan election dispute?
According to these videos, Elvis Mbonye, a self-proclaimed African prophet, predicted events such as the 2012 Ugandan helicopter crash, 2018 Oscar winners, and Ugandan election dispute:
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Do a substantial number of born-again American Christians not believe "that Jesus bodily came back to life"?
In Dan Barker's Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of
America's Leading Atheists, at the start of Chapter Sixteen, he writes
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Many bible scholars[25] and ministers—...
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Have 25% of all Christian Ex-Muslim converts received dreams or visions as a major factor in their conversion?
In an 2009 article, Why do Muslims come to Christ? Five case studies that underline the key factors as Living God in Christ, the living Word, and the living Body of Christ. by Salaam Corniche, there ...
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Were evangelicals rallied around abortion in 1978, as a substitute for segregation?
The June 20, 2019 edition of NPR’s “Throughline” podcast “examines how the issue of abortion became a defining political issue for evangelicals.”
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Did Argentine President Juan Peron grant free access to the radio, the press and two soccer stadiums to a preacher called Tommy Hicks in 1954?
The title is a summary of claims I've read from several informal sources. For example, this site claims:
It was in this environment that Tommy Hicks was welcomed into the presidential office. After ...
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Did Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni hand the national flag to intercessors in 1997 in the midst of a Christian revival?
World Trumpet Mission, an international revivalist ministry founded in 1988 in the Republic of Uganda by John Mulinde, presents the following historical timeline on their website (emphasis mine):
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Did a Cypriot bishop claim that homosexuality is caused when parents have anal sex?
The August 1, 2019 issue of MetroWeekly ("Washington D.C.'s Best LGBTQ Magazine for 25 Years"), on page 46, provides a "LastWord" quotation section that includes the following:
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Does this statue outside a school in India depict a Hindu Brahmin begging in front of Virgin Mary?
This video was circulating on social media with the following caption:
At the entrance of St. Mary's H. S., Manapparai, Tiruchy, Tamilnadu, a brahmin is depicted as begging in front of Virgin Mary. ...
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Did Islam dominate slave trade, and did Christians enter the slave market only later? [closed]
Stefan Molyneux claims in The Truth About The Crusades that:
Islam dominated slave trade between the 7th and the 15th century, while the Christians entered the market of human flesh much later - ...
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Do Christian pastors in India pay people to convert to Christianity?
This says:
2) The Money Minded Evangelists - This is where 99.9% of today's Indian Christian Evangelists fall into. There are pastors who live in mansions and luxury, pay people to convert to ...
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Did Muslims in the Middle East cut off the breasts of Christian women?
A Conservative Infidel article from 2014 made a claim (that was repeated in a forum for Americans for Legal Immigration PAC) that:
Muslims in the Middle East took Christian girls and cut their ...
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Is it true that 4th century Christians "destroyed all they could reach of ancient learning"?
On page 19 of Mathematics for the Nonmathematician, mathematician Morris Kline claims that:
In 313 A.D. Rome legalized Christianity and, under the emperor
Theodosius (379-395), adopted it as the ...
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Did Christians kill thirty to fifty times as many people in political violence as Muslims in the 20th century?
Blog post by US academic Juan Cole (sometimes linked to in twitter)
Twentieth Century Deaths in War and Political Violence by Religion
Total: 102 Million
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Was Mother Teresa a fanatic and a fraud? [closed]
According to this article, Mother Teresa did much more harm than good and was opposed to helping the poor, the ills and raped women.
Is it true that Mother Teresa didn't do much to help those in ...
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Did Pope Leo X say that Christianity is a fable?
The internet is full of references to the following quote, attributed to Pope Leo X:
How well we know what a profitable superstition this fable of Christ has been for us and our predecessors.
Did he ...
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Was Messina destroyed by earthquake three days after local newspaper dared God to do so?
Popular Christian author Nancy Leigh DeMoss said the following on her radio show:
One hundred years ago Messina was a prosperous, gorgeous coastal city on the Italian island of Sicily, just off the ...
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Has the documentary hypothesis become invalid? [closed]
The documentary hypothesis is a hypothesis which proposes that the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible) was derived from originally independent, parallel and complete narratives, which were ...
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Did a Russian Orthodox priest sprinkle holy water on Russia's Central Bank's servers?
Tweet by @bankableInsight (3,639 retweets, 1,662 favorites), reported by the NZ Herald:
This is a Russian priest sprinkling holy water on the central bank's
servers in an attempt to stop the fall of ...
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Have one million Christians been persecuted to death or exile in Iraq by jihadis?
On the Breitbart News Network is the claim
In a region where Christians predate Muslims by centuries, over one million Christians have been killed or have had to flee because of jihadi persecution, ...
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Did Christians burn the Great Library of Alexandria?
The Great Library of Alexandria was one of the wonders of ancient civilisation having collected many thousands of scrolls containing knowledge and literature from across the known world.
The 2009 ...
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Have 50 million Eastern Orthodox Christians been killed in the 20th century?
Eastern Orthodox Christians claim that there has been a 'Holocaust' of sorts in the latter part of the 19th century and throughout the entire 20th century (and continuing into the 21st century). But ...
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Is Jesus Christ's birthday March 28th?
Prior to about a week ago, I've never known Christ's birthday to be anything other than December 25th. However, my kids are starting to tell me about how they're hearing claims from peers that this is ...
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Are any fragments of the True Cross authentic?
Many churches around the world claim to hold pieces of the True Cross, the cross upon which Jesus was actually crucified. However, I doubt that any of their claims are valid. Two thousand years is a ...
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