Apologetics
Significant Religious Findings from 2006 (U.S. based research)
THE TWELVE MOST SIGNIFICANT RELIGIOUS FINDINGS FROM 2006 Each year Barna Research seeks to identify some of the most unexpected and significant findings. Barna selected the following dozen outcomes as the most significant findings of 2006. 1. Only 15% of those who regularly attend a Christian church ranked their relationship with God as the top […]
How the West Really Lost God
By Mary Eberstadt A new look at secularization. For well over a century now, the idea that something about modernity will ultimately cause religion to wither away has been practically axiomatic among modern, sophisticated Westerners.1 Known in philosophy as Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous story of the madman who runs into the marketplace declaring that “Gott ist […]
World church leader urges repentance for violence of Christianity
June 8, 2007 Christians need to acknowledge the violence they used in the past in oppressing other faiths, the head of the World Council of Churches has said at Germany’s biggest Protestant gathering. “If we do not own up to this history, turn around and repent, this part of our past will always haunt the […]
The Islamisation of Malaysia
Subj: The Islamisation of Malaysia This is an extended posting in two parts. First there is an examination of the 30 May 2007 ruling in Malaysia’s Federal Court that finally and officially severs Malaysia’s Muslims from their fundamental and constitutional right to religious freedom (Article 11 of Malaysia’s Constitution) and shackles them to Sharia (Islamic […]
Overseas Aid
IS MONEY SPENT IN AUSTRALIA REALLY OVERSEAS AID More than $600 million of Australia’s foreign aid over the past two years never went overseas.Development assistance of $644 million to Iraq, was in fact the repayment of a 17-year-old Iraqi debt. Including it in Australia’s foreign aid figure makes the nation appear more generous than it […]
The Peril of Doing Nothing
(This has been circulating around the ‘Net for a while) A man whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War Two owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism. “Very few people were true Nazis […]
It Stinketh
June 3, 2007 By Harry T. Cook It was left to the senior senator from Illinois to administer the last rites to American democracy on May 24 as Congress was about to cave on the military appropriations bill, handing George W. Bush yet another blank check to wage his unwinnable war in Iraq. Speaking democracy’s […]
Sexual Orientation and Religious Liberty in the U K
Subj: UK: Sexual Orientation and Religious Liberty ———————————————- UK: SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ———————————————- The British government’s controversial Sexual Orientation Regulations (SORs) which outlaw discrimination against homosexuals in the provisions of goods and services became law in England, Wales and Scotland on 30 April 2007. The British SORs are parallel but slightly different from […]
G E food – a bad option
Help keep GE out of our food (from a friend) Australia – Victoria’s agriculture minister wants to lift his state’s ban on growing genetically engineered canola. The ban protects all Australian consumers and farmers from risky GE contamination. As many farmers struggle with the drought, another threat looms. The Australian government is seeking to lift […]
The Fog of war – Lebanon and Iraq
Gwynne Dyer The fighting that began in northern Lebanon on May 20 may drag the country back into a civil war, or it may not. It may be the result of a Syrian plot, or it may not. As a rule, if you claim to understand what is going on in Lebanon, you simply reveal […]
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