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We all appreciate the New Year because it a clear slate. It is a fresh opportunity to make changes in our life? But did you know that Jesus Christ gives you a fresh slate every single day?

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“I decided that I had no religion my last year of middle school. I despised religion when I learned about wars fought in its name.”

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I hope that one day “religious freedom” isn’t used as an excuse to deny basic human rights to the LGBT community.

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So if animals have souls, doesn’t that mean that we shouldn’t eat them? How are you going to justify eating something with a soul?

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Because I’m a person who believes in doing things that make sense.

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On the better days, we all simply have to wait for the “all clear” and on the worst of days, we all have to live through the tragedy one thought at a time. In the darkest of trials we find that friends, relatives and even religious rituals rap themselves around us for the simple purpose of giving us something else to think about or at the very least a different way of thinking about what was previously unthinkable.

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Most parents don’t imagine their children growing up to become gay atheist interfaith activists.

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By the time I was old enough to realize that it was odd for two grown men to have been “roommates” for so long, when I asked my mother and she laughed and said, “Oh, honey, they’re gay; I thought you knew,” it made sense to me.

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In spite of my young atheism and my naïve devotion to scientific optimism, profoundly religious works of literature shaped my spirit. The first novels I read, in the summer between second and third grade, were The Chronicles of Narnia.

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Like it or not, the end of the world narrative has crept into our culture, bled out from Christianity into all kinds of secular progressive causes. The vision of a global warming apocalypse stands out as a prime example. There is now scientific consensus that global warming is occurring, and that it is being influenced by people in a predictable fashion.