Apologetics
Biblical Criticism
On various religious/atheists’ newsgroups, an assertion sometimes appears that goes something like this: ‘If your reason for believing in God or being a Christian is that you are impressed by Jesus, how can you know whether he really did or said those things? Haven’t modern scholars debunked the historicity of the Gospels? The real Jesus […]
Gun Laws
Following my post ‘Oxymoron of the month: Sporting Shooters’ which inveighed against using the term ‘sporting’ of pastimes which inflict pain on other creatures… I was asked several questions like: Am I a vegan? What about Olympic shooting? Individual rights? etc. etc… O.K. fair question/s. WBIM (which being interpreted means): how does one arrive at […]
Fundamentalists Vs Liberals
Some Reflections Much of the ‘heat’ in discussions on this newsgroup derives from two basically conflicting views of Christian reality. In my ministry as a consultant to all churches this polarization is evident everywhere. Here’s a rough summary: you might like to add other categories – ENTITY
Spong’s Liberalism
‘The heart will never respond to that which the mind rejects.’ My thesis: the religion of Jesus has (always) been hijacked by either fundamentalists or liberals. In the first century the main problem was with fundamentalists/legalists. In the next few centuries the church had to wrestle with various manifestations of what I am happy to […]
Why Leading Philosophers Believe(2/3)
Why Some Eminent Philosophers Believe in God [2] One of the assumptions in theism-vs-atheism debates is that one probably passes from non-belief to belief (and vice versa) *rationally*. A cursory reading of the biographies of eleven leading contemporary philosophers in Kelly James Clark (ed.) *Philosophers Who Believe* (IVP, Illinois, 1993), tells a different story. I’m […]
Persecution 1997
This came out yesterday in a Voice of America report… INTRO: NEW YORK CITY OFFICIALS ARE CONSIDERING A RESOLUTION TO REQUEST THAT PRESIDENT CLINTON AND CONGRESS CALL FOR AN END TO THE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS AROUND THE WORLD AND TO MAKE THAT A TOP PRIORITY OF U-S FOREIGN POLICY. V-O-A’S RITA COLORITO REPORTS THE NEW […]
Anger And Atheism
I’ve been lurking around/in the religious newsgroups, for a couple of hours most days, for the past six months, and seem to have witnessed more anger in the alt.atheism (non-moderated) groups than in all the others combined… Several recent posters on alt.atheism.moderated have also commented on the apparently increasing ‘noise’ (immaturity-plus- anger-plus-profanity?) there. Now why? […]
Miracles And Atheism
I was in a discussion for several hours tonight with an agnostic friend as to whether or not it is possible that there exists something outside of physical nature could possibly exist, i.e. a supernatural. The specific question raised was: If all physical processes in a certain situation could be taken into account, and yet […]
Atheists And Anger
I ran across your html page in which you note the presence of much anger on alt.atheism. I agree with your notion that one would expect the atheism newsgroups to be the rationalization capitals of the world. The reason why this statement is true follows: There are a lot of attention starved theists who post […]
Sporting Shooters 3
Lawyer-theologian-activist Rev. Tim Costello (Collins St. Baptist Church, Melbourne) has given me permission to make this available on the Internet. Reproduce it for your church bulletins, give it to your friends, use it in discussion groups! Shalom! Rowland Croucher ‘Please Don’t Buckle. We Want Gun Control’ Our politicians are under enormous pressure from the gun […]
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