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Washer reports converting to Christianity while studying at the University of Texas at Austin to become an oil and gas lawyer. [5] [6] He moved to Peru and served there as a missionary for 10 years. [7] In 1988, while in Peru, [8] Washer founded the HeartCry Missionary Society to support indigenous missionaries witnessing to people of their own ...
Blasphemous thoughts are a common component of OCD, documented throughout history; notable religious figures such as Martin Luther and Ignatius of Loyola were known to be tormented by intrusive, blasphemous or religious thoughts and urges. [27] Martin Luther had urges to curse God and Jesus, and was obsessed with images of "the Devil's behind."
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There has always been much debate over the 'Christian views on suicide', with early Christians believing that suicide is sinful and an act of blasphemy. Modern Christians do not consider suicide an unforgivable sin (though still wrong and sinful) or something that prevents a believer who died by suicide from achieving eternal life. [1] [2] [3]
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For example, with ERP a person obsessed by blasphemous thoughts while reading the Bible would practice reading the Bible. [10] [11] However, ERP is considerably harder to implement than with other disorders, because scrupulosity often involves spiritual issues that are not specific situations and objects. For example, ERP is not appropriate for ...
The Alexamenos graffito. The Alexamenos graffito (known also as the graffito blasfemo, or blasphemous graffito) [1]: 393 is a piece of Roman graffiti scratched in plaster on the wall of a room near the Palatine Hill in Rome, Italy, which has now been removed and is in the Palatine Museum. [2]
Citing Numbers 31:13–47 as an example, in which Moses orders the slaughter of thousands of boys and women and sanctions the rape of thousands of girls at God's behest, [37] Paine calls the Bible a "book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy; for what can be greater blasphemy than to ascribe the wickedness of man to the orders of the Almighty!" [38]