Apologetics
The Pope’s remarks were dangerous… (Karen Armstrong)
The Pope’s remarks were dangerous, and will convince many more Muslims that the west is incurably Islamophobic Karen Armstrong Monday September 18, 2006 The Guardian In the 12th century, Peter the Venerable, Abbot of Cluny, initiated a dialogue with the Islamic world. “I approach you not with arms, but with words,” he wrote to the […]
The Pope and Islam
Sightings 9/18/06 The Pope and Islam — Martin E. Marty Pope Benedict XVI has had a free ride so far. Back when there were still Protestant anti-Catholics, some would have found much fault with him, but most appreciated his encyclical on divine and human love, and said so. Many Catholics and non-Catholics whose friends suffered […]
Pakistan’s War on Christians
I’ve just read a well-written, graphic article by Cathy Scott Clark and Adrian Levy – ‘Pakistan’s War on Christians’ – and the nearest Google could find was the following… Can anyone email the original article, from Readers’ Digest or Sunday Times? Thanks. Rowland ~~~ …Pakistan, for gross discrimination against Christians, detailed in the Reader’s Digest […]
How Britain is turning Christianity into a crime
DAILY MAIL UK http://tinyurl.com/qvhc5 by Melanie Phillips Last updated at 11:14am on 7th September 2006 How long will it be before Christianity becomes illegal in Britain? This is no longer the utterly absurd and offensive question that on first blush it would appear to be. An evangelical Christian campaigner, Stephen Green was arrested and charged […]
On human cloning
Two research papers opposing human cloning are now available at the Sydney Anglicans website: http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/indepth/the_clone_wars/ Alternative site at http://www.baptistsocialissues.org.au/index.php?id=34 Note also the online petition backed by the Australian Christian Lobby (currently registering 878, up from 703 at 3.30 pm yesterday afternoon, but aiming for 10,000) – http://www.makeastand.org.au/campaign/index.stw?campaign_id=2
The Age of Horrorism
destroy whole ecosystems, Hussein modestly conceded that he found Iraq a difficult country to keep in one piece. As a Sunni military man put it, Iraqis hate Iraq – or ‘Iraq’, a concept that has brought them nothing but suffering. There is no nationalist instinct; the instinct is for atomisation. Third, only the sack of […]
The Pope should mind his words. So should some of his Muslim critics
Subtle scholar, but what an inept politician Waleed Aly September 18, 2006 The Pope should mind his words. So should some of his Muslim critics. LET me get this straight. Pope Benedict XVI quotes the 14th century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Paleologus asserting before a Persian Islamic scholar that the prophet Muhammad brought nothing new […]
The Age of Horrorism
On the eve of the fifth anniversary of 9/11, one of Britain’s most celebrated and original writers analyses – and abhors – the rise of extreme Islamism. In a penetrating and wide-ranging essay he offers a trenchant critique of the grotesque creed and questions the West’s faltering response to this eruption of evil. Martin Amis […]
Does God Exist?
“Noted philosopher and legal scholar Mortimer Adler was the co-editor of The Great Books of the Western World, a fifty-five volume series published by Encyclopedia Britannica several years ago. The idea was to marshall the eminent thinkers of the western world and their writings on the most important ideas that have been studied and investigated […]
A Secular Iraqi national identity is alive and well
By Mansoor Moaddel Friday, September 22, 2006 The escalating violence in Iraq gives a bleak impression of that country’s prospects. Sectarian conflict seems to be increasing on a daily basis, with militias massacring hundreds of Sunnis and Shiites solely on the basis of their religious identities. Yet it would be a mistake to think that […]
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