Apologetics
Carter’s Crusade
Carter’s Crusade By Ayelish McGarvey, The American Prospect April 9, 2004 Former President Jimmy Carter, America’s first evangelical Christian president, still teaches Sunday school at his Baptist church in Plains, Georgia, and he and his wife, Rosalynn, continue their human-rights work in developing nations through the Carter Center at Emory University. In recent months, the […]
Christian fundamentalists and mideast policy
US Christian fundamentalists are driving Bush’s Middle East policy Their beliefs are bonkers, but they are at the heart of power George Monbiot Tuesday April 20, 2004 “The Guardian” — To understand what is happening in the Middle East, you must first understand what is happening in Texas. To understand what is happening there, you […]
Dialog with an atheist
One netfriend: I consider them the weakest avenue by which to attack the bible, since they can typically be answered, if rather unconvincingly, with one of a few broad catchall answers. Typical catchalls are “copyist error,” “the historical context nullifies the contradiction,” or “BOTH of those dramatically different accounts of an event could have happened, […]
Decoding The Da Vinci Code
As long as readers take novelist Dan Brown at his word when he claims to be purveying historical fact in The Da Vinci Code, we’ll keep separating fact from fiction. Perhaps you’ve heard of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. This fictional thriller, which supposes a marriage between Jesus and Mary Magdalene that produced a […]
Evidences for the authority of the Bible
Poster one: I gather from your other posts that you don’t deny the supernatural; you just deny that the Bible is supernatural. Therefore, you have a bias against the Bible; you have a priori rejected the Bible as a supernatural book. Which bolsters my claim that objections to the Bible are more emotional and moral […]
God as designer
“Mark and Bev Tindall” wrote in message news:… “CFG” wrote: (in response to another’s) ‘Design shouts designer.’ It is not a proof of God’s existence. In Romans 1 Paul uses the Causal or Cosmological Argument for God’s existence. It is an argument from origins / design. Look at the universe … it must have come […]
Ban the Bible?
“Mark and Bev Tindall” wrote in message news:… BAN THE BIBLE? by Tony Banks While the fundamentalists and the so-called Christian conservatives in this country have had a field day when it’s come to censoring everything from rock and/or rap albums to movies to magazines — especially magazines like Playboy, Penthouse, and Hustler — to […]
Joshua’s long day
From a netfriend: [Note: I do not agree with the basic stance of this writer. RC]. First: “What is Science?”: It submits the following definition for science: ~ [T]he field of study which attempts to describe and understand the ~ nature of the universe in whole or part. [JP Siepmann, Editor of ~ Journal] Now […]
Creation/Evolution
Dear Rowland, I’ve viewed some of the postings that you have from the perspectives of the current Evolution/ Creation Science debate. In the interests of furthering that debate, I’d like to provide your readers with some links to published material presenting the other side of the debate. There are many thinking believers from a professional […]
George Bush and Evangelical Christianity
Interview with Doug Wead http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jesus/interviews/wead.html Talk about your relationship with George W. Bush. How long have you known him? You’re described in a couple of different bios about you as an old friend, and as one of his advisers. I first met George W. in March 1987. I was working for his father, running coalitions […]
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