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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

Reading Lolita In Tehran

By and others ⋅ July 4, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

What is being touted as Islam by the Islamic state is not genuinely religion; it is religion being used as an ideology. Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and […]

Warning Against ‘Gay Marriage’ Proposals

By and others ⋅ July 4, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

PRESS STATEMENT 1 July 2003 LEADING CHRISTIAN GROUPS WARN AGAINST ‘GAY MARRIAGE’ PROPOSALS Government proposals to give gay and lesbian couples the same legal rights as married couples are tantamount to ‘gay marriage’, according to the Evangelical Alliance and CARE. The leading evangelical Christian groups are deeply concerned about the proposals, which include pension and […]

Toward One-Party Rule

By and others ⋅ July 3, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

OP-ED COLUMNIST By PAUL KRUGMAN (June sometime, 2003) In principle, Mexico’s 1917 Constitution established a democratic political system. In practice, until very recently Mexico was a one-party state. While the ruling party employed intimidation and electoral fraud when necessary, mainly it kept control through patronage, cronyism and corruption. All powerful interest groups, including the media, […]

Adam And Eve

By and others ⋅ June 29, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

From: “Ken Smith” Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: Feigning evolution (Gladys Swager) writes: > > >Sorry, Chris, it is NOT my gospel, in the sense that I wrote it. It is > >the gospel of John, one of Jesus’s twelve disciples, in which he > >wrote, “In the beginning was the Word – meaning Jesus, the […]

Reality By Poll

By and others ⋅ June 27, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Thoughts that are worth thinking about Nicholas Lezard finds great relevance in Baudrillard’s Cool Memories Saturday June 14, 2003 The Guardian Cool Memories IV, 1995-2000 by Jean Baudrillard, translated by Chris Turner (Verso,  £13) Jean Baudrillard is one of the reliable whipping-posts for the Anglo-Saxon empiricist. Here is the case against him: 1, he is […]

First Cause?

By and others ⋅ June 27, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

From: “Ken Smith” Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: The questions of existence Ken: I’ve stayed out of this interesting thread because I’m a bit > overloaded at the moment, but one comment by Rowland made me > reconsider my isolation. Contributor: Some have an experience which they attribute directly to God, and > >> a personal […]

Creation And Evolution (More)

By and others ⋅ June 27, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

[Excerpts from Chris Ho-Stuart’s responses to a poster on aus.religion.christian]: Many Christians are struck by the “fine tuning” of the universe, the balancing of fundamental forces in such a way to permit or perhaps even made inveitable the emergence of complex phenomena like life. Creationists do not generally recognize this. They frequently describe the universe […]

Bishops From Sydney Speak About The ‘Tragic Disruption Of Fellowship In Anglican Communion’

By and others ⋅ June 27, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

MEDIA RELEASE FROM ANGLICAN MEDIA SYDNEY Bishops from Sydney speak about the ‘tragic disruption of fellowship in Anglican Communion’ Archbishop Peter Jensen and the five regional bishops of the Diocese of Sydney have released a statement on the ‘crisis in the Anglican Communion’. They refer to the appointment of a gay activist to be Bishop […]

Evolution And Creation

By and others ⋅ June 27, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

From: “Chris Ho-Stuart” Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: Feigning evolution > Gladys Swager wrote: > > Chris, > > > > When God created man and woman He gave them the ability to procreate. > > In that procreation every human is different from every other human. > > It was a God-initiating process and a […]

The Future Looks Bright

By and others ⋅ June 23, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Language can help to shape the way we think about the world. Richard Dawkins welcomes an attempt to raise consciousness about atheism by co-opting a word with cheerful associations Saturday June 21, 2003 The Guardian I once read a science-fiction story in which astronauts voyaging to a distant star were waxing homesick: “Just to think […]

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