Rowland Croucher
Baptist joke
From a friend: One of the funnier Baptist jokes (Baptists tell this one) I ever heard was that as a result of high-level talks many years ago, the Roman Catholics had finally decided to eat meat on Fridays, the Jews came back with their own “high-level” conference and decided that they would finally accept Jesus […]
Holiday Complaints
According to Thomas Cook in the UK, some holidaymakers are just never satisfied. Here are the top ten most bizarre and genuine customer complaints received by the firm in recent years: 1 On my holiday to Goa in India, I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. I don’t like spicy food […]
Divorce Statistics
[1]: ‘Baptists have a higher divorce rate than atheists and Jews, but they blame gays for the destruction of the family. Why dedicate your life to Christ when you can’t even dedicate it to your spouse? One response [2] Let’s look at the numbers. http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_dira.htm Denomination % being divorced Non-denominational (small conservative groups; independents) 34% […]
Hillsong: and now the good news
JUSTICE HAS A FRONT SEAT AT HILLSONG CONFERENCE July 10, 2007 With themes of unity, courage, justice and freedom, this year’s Hillsong conference held last week in Sydney, which each year is the largest single gathering of Christians in Australia, had the ring of a United Nations convention rather than a church gathering. Criticized in […]
Frank Brennan answers atheist manifestos
Book Review: Frank Brennan answers atheist manifestos 05-Jul-2007 By Frank Brennan God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Christopher Hitchens, Twelve, New York, 305pp Michel Onfray, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2007, 219pp Against Religion, Tamas Pataki, Scribe, Melbourne, 2007, 136pp These anti-religious tomes arrived at my bedside when I was hospitalised with acute renal […]
Against Religion (essay by Tamas Pataki)
[Note from Rowland. I’ve just finished reading and reviewing Pataki’s book, which is an expansion of these themes: look in the indexes on this website for my response. Also look for the article ‘Frank Brennan answers atheist manifestos’ on this site. July 2007] Against religion Tamas Pataki SHORTLY BEFORE THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS of October 2004, […]
Book Review: Against Religion (Tamas Pataki)
Against Religion, (2007) by Tamas Pataki Scribe Publications At least four quite provocative/notorious (notorious for religionists anyway) anti-theist books have been published in the last two years. The best known is The God Delusion, in which Richard Dawkins argues that belief in God is both delusional and pernicious: ‘Any God capable of designing a universe, […]
Limerix
There was a young lady of Niger, Who went for a ride on a tiger. At end of the ride, Lady was inside, And a smile on face of the tiger. And here are some feeble efforts by an anon. poster: There was a sportswoman of Nile, Went croc hunting, with rifle and guile. But […]
Megachurches and Modernity
Dining with the Devil: The Megachurch Movement Flirts with Modernity By Os Guinness (Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, MI, 1993) Dining with the Devil is about the church growth movement and how its approaches often make value choices that are problematic for Christianity. This is not a list of superficial complaints about matters of style, […]
Monitoring Mass Secularism
Sightings 6/18/07 — Martin E. Marty “Anything anybody can say about America is true”: this seems to be as true now as when countercultural philosopher Emmett Grogan said it decades ago and when I applied it to American religion in this cyber-space four years ago. Ross Douthat inspires my return to that theme with his […]
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