christianity

Notice that who is being lynched is reported, but who is doing the lynching is left out. While Haiti is known for Voodoo, it is a small minority religion. The vast majority are Christian, and the vast majority of Christians are Catholics. This is, essentially, a witch panic, like the one in...

It occurred to me that a test of the historicity of the Christian Scriptures that might be worth asking Chirstians on this forum to explain is to be found in Acts 2:1-6: And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound...

Full story here: http://heraldbulletin.com/breakingnews/x1293919477/Custody-ruling-raises-legal-concerns It's hard to believe that this man's custody was cut from 50/50 to every other weekend plus four hours a week solely because he isn't a Christian. However, Judge Pancol mentioned Scarberry's...

Interesting article in the NY Times Magazine about conservative Christian women leading the charge to restore traditional gender roles and power structures. Housewives of God Do they have a point? Statistics say that women are less happy now than they were 40 years ago. Is it the feminism...

On another thread (Mohammed now the most popular boy's name in England), DOC responded to a comment by Hokulele that it was too bad God hadn't learned to turn the other cheek, with the following: If you ask for forgiveness and are sincere he will. So, here's what I'd like to know: For what ...

Yes, I was surprised to learn the name Muhammed or variations of it is now the most popular name in Britain. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1324194/Mohammed-popular-baby-boys-ahead-Jack-Harry.html And this phenomenon is not only occurring in Britain but elsewhere in Europe. Yes...

its comes down to the idea that the "book of mormons" is blasphemous, and Joseph Smith being a charlatan (albeit an epic one). wiki- if your not familiar with the text, imagine a david ike novel hijacking an established religion, rewriting "history" its a shame that in the United States the...

delete this tread was about gnosticism, but there is already opened tread about that.

What is the current research or statistics available on the proportion of "moderate" to "extremist/fundamentalist" individuals within various religions? Is there any appreciable difference in the proportions of extremist Muslims compared to say Christians? I suppose it would be a difficult...

Right before any of us atheists die, god stops time for us. One unit of Planck time just shy of us dying. In this period, god completely addresses our arguments. QED. We have no response and god proves any possible argument against his existence or qualities to our full understanding. We...

After reading this book, which was recommended to a friend of mine who wanted to bring me back to Christianity, I am still unconvinced of the divinity of the Bible. Why? Well, the thing is, Feiler does not defend the authenticity of the Old or New Testaments. This book is mostly about cultural...

There seems to be a creationist debate brewing in the "Your Letters" section of my local paper. I first noticed it about a month ago, and was tempted to send in a response, but decided it wasn't worth the effort. I don't usually read the letters section, but I was flicking through last...

Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned: yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To...

I think many, if not most, Americans have heard the slogan "love the sinner, but not the sin" from the anti-homosexual agenda in the Christian Church. Well, I wonder how Christians would feel about the slogan I just came up with in the title. I think it's directly comparable and makes the...

I am always looking for Christian debate websites and other such things to learn more about why people believe in Christianity in the first place. I was suddenly struck by a website which looked interesting so I looked on it. I was looking through the threads when I find this...

This sounds like an interesting book, written by an evangelical and raising the blood pressure of all his colleagues. This article about its ideas and how they are stirring the pot are discussed, and a chapter from the book is quoted...

I have been invited by my friend to a group on facebook called 'so apparently I'm going to hell' which has a list of reasons ,stated by Mr. Micah Armstrong originally of the Assembly of God Church in Miami, of why you can go to hell they include: Pot Smoking Cigarette Smoking Alcohol Drinking...

So here's the thrilling Youtube video (part 1 of 4) challenging Richard Dawkins to a debate with William Lane Craig (also Dinesh D'Souza and some intelligent design nut or other): n7ugyTJFvnQ Warning: the music is appallingly bad. The other parts are easy to find, and by the end of part 4...

sure, I was raised Jewish..which makes me kinda biased. but still, I firmly believe that Judaism is more believable then Christianity. you don't have to believe in Adam, Eve, Noah, even Abraham, to be a Jew. You don't have to believe that Moses received the Ten Commandments, to be a Jew. You...

Forgive me if there has already been 20 threads on this subject. As you can see I don't post often. And this may be a stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway as it interests me I was just watching a documentary which was claiming there a 2 billion Christians in the world. Does anyone...

I just saw this website (Stand for Christmas) and needed to come here for some sanity. Am I the only one who wants to hear "Happy holidays" and not be constantly reminded of religious beliefs that I don't hold?

Hitchens: Christianity is a fraud if it’s not literally true Hehe

Having recently posted on the thread about Tony Blair's attack on atheists, I was reminded of a number of books rwritten in the past few years by Christian intellectuals asserting that Western Civilization owes most of its character to its Christian heritage. Among these are Dinesh D'Souza's...

Part I: Over the years, I've asked various Christians why God, if he exists, didn't just create us as faithful people; in other words, why aren't we innately Christian? The usual response is often vague, but basically comes down to the idea that God wants us to have "free will," and by making...

This post is a spin-off from Ryan O'Dine's poll regarding the more evangelical posters on this forum. This poll is to see how the more moderate or liberal Christians who post here have influenced your opinions. For the purposes of this poll, I am defining "Christian" as being any person who...

Please can you help? I'm having a discussion about population growth with a christian friend. I loosely recalled a couple of paragraphs from "Innumeracy" by John Allen Paulos and argued that for the numbers of people later quoted in the bible as being in places like the Tower of Babylon and...

This thread is for the Christian apologists of the site - specifically hamelekim, ethnikos and Kurious_Kathy. What is the core message of Christianity? What is the minimum we need to know in order to be saved - the smallest possible distillation of Christ's message to humanity? Please try to...

http://www.newsweek.com/id/215100/?gt1=43002 According to this story, a young, formerly Muslim girl who converted to Christianity claims to be in fear for her life from her still Muslim parents, whom she says will conduct an "honor killing" (apostasy) against her simply because she converted to...

On Bill Maher's program (Aug 7) he made the claim that Is that true? Do only one half of Americans know Judaism is older than Christianity? ETA: wrong forum, sorry

Yesterday, on a lengthy car ride, I was involved in a discussion concerning the biblical position on homosexuality. The conversation eventually turned to the topic of genetics and whether or not our sexual preference is predetermined by our biology or dictated by one's experiences. My basic...