History – R-Rated Religion

Jan 3rd: The Birth of the Reformation

3 Jan 20223 Jan 2022

"Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, and biblical scholar, wrote against the church’s use of indulgences and insisted that salvation is a free gift from God, not achieved through good works.…

January 1st 2022!

1 Jan 20221 Jan 2022

"In 1788 Quakers in Pennsylvania freed their slaves, anticipating the emancipation of chattel slaves in the United States some seventy-five years later. Together with free blacks, abolitionist evangelicals, and slaves…

Watch Night – A Brief History

31 Dec 202131 Dec 2021

"Watch Night Established in African-American communities on December 31, 1862, Watch Night is a gathering to celebrate the Emancipation Proclamation becoming law. When the clock struck midnight on January 1, 1863,…

Did Joshua Fulfill God’s Plan?

Introduction The question at hand is whether Joshua fulfilled God’s plan for his life. Scholars tend to differ on this topic stating his failure to rid the promised land of…

Christmas

Almighty God, you have given your only-begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and to be born [this day] of a pure virgin: Grant that we, who have been…

Watch “5-Part Series: Science and God” on YouTube

23 Dec 20213 Jan 2022

https://youtu.be/3lJNAEJePhQ This is not only entertaining but extremely thought-provoking. We have written about science and faith before: https://rratedreligion.org/2021/04/27/science-vs-religion/ Stephen Meyer is both a gifted apologist and an accomplished scientific philosopher.…

A Christian Concern for September 11, 2021: The Veneration of Death

As I watched the media coverage of the coming twentieth anniversary of the September 11 attacks approach, I grew weary of how mainstream Christian conservative pundits, media figures, and politicians…

Biblical Canon: A Short History & Proof of Divinity

The Bible Canon The story of the Biblical Canon is the story of love, faith, and perseverance. No greater story has been told in the history of human literature. For…

Who Owns the Rainbow?

16 Jun 202128 Aug 2021

Did you ever stop and notice what happened to the Christian view of the rainbow? When you walk down the street or ride in a car and see a sign…

What is really going on at the tower of babel?

27 Apr 202120 May 2021

The tower of Babel story in Genesis eleven is often debated over or aligned as something God did to give mankind a multitude of languages. Many scholars and theologians have…

A Saint Patrick’s day prayer

17 Mar 202127 Apr 2021

“Patrick, St (mid- or late 5th cent.), ‘Apostle of the Irish’. Patrick was born in Britain, the son of a local decurio (a member of a town council) called Calpornius,…

Every Christian American needs to watch this short history lesson!

18 Jul 20203 Aug 2020

https://youtu.be/iJygZhHd3bM Watch "Some things you've never heard about AMERICA!~ (historian David Barton)!"Do you really know American history? Do you think you know how religious the founding fathers were? Did Christianity…