Month: June 2010
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Recommendations for the Moment
Website/Blog: What Had Happen’ Was….. Great blog for a taste of interesting apologetics related material from all around the www. Article: Are Atheists Healthy, Happy, Moral, etc.? Let the facts answer this question via polls and studies. Audio: The Problem of Evil and Suffering by William Lane Craig Book: Philip J. Sampson, 6 Modern Myths…
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Sacred Sites
There are many belief systems in which sacred sites play a big part. A sacred site is a geographical location. As a concept it can range from a place where an event occurred, to a place thought of as auspicious; such as in the concept of geomancy, sacred geography, Feng Shui, energy centers, etc. These…
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OH, MY GOODNESS !!!
What is Good?Good is a relative term. It is the standards by which we judge that determine what goodness is. When we judge ourselves according to the standards of the world it is easy to label ourselves as good. We can watch the news any day and compare our deeds to those of the world.…
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Dan Brown – The Da Vinci Code, part 3 of 4 : Cat's Got Your Tongue? No, But He Wishes He Did
The book that is worth killing people and burning flags for is not the book that I wrote“ —Salmon Rushdie1 Cat’s Got Your Tongue? No, But He Wishes He Did Cat Stevens a.k.a. Yusuf Islam received the “Man of Peace” award from Nobel Peace Prize laureates. When Salman Rushdie’s novel was published this man of…
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Roman Catholic Church: Our Lady of Guadalupe – Officially or Unofficially the Goddess of the Americas?
I ran across a very interesting, refreshingly honest and theologically bankrupt story about a December 15, 2009 AD art exhibit about “Our Lady of Guadalupe” which the article also calls “the Virgin of Guadalupe.”1 This exhibit, which will take place at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico was announced in a local…
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Personal Experience
Ironically, it is from personal experience that I learned that personal experience and feelings are not the standard by which all things are to be judged. They are not to be relied on to define our worldview, and not the things that we should depend on for our eternal destiny. Why? Maybe I’m an incredibly…
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Oprah Winfrey – Priestess of Spirituality and Preacher of Strict Exclusivism, part 1
Does “strict exclusivism” sound like overkill? After all, exclusivism implies strictness. The point is to emphasize that in attempting to promulgate inclusivism it is exclusivism that ends up at the forefront as it comes across as that which it is; the only logical conclusion. Consider, for example, that Oprah Winfrey stated, “I am a Christian…
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John 3 and Conflict
Be aware: this article does not offer medial advice and does not call for the cessation of the taking of medicines. While speaking to Nicodemus, Jesus stated the following: “Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the Light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the…
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HYPOCRITES
Hypocrisy: 1. The feigning of beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; insincerity. 2. Pretense of goodness. Hupokrisis (Greek): Playing a part on the stage. How many times have you heard, “The church is full of hypocrites!” Partially we deserve this sort of put down because there are some people in…
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Christianity's Dangerously Liberal Side
It is very easy to pick on the orthodox-fundamentalists-conservatives but when it comes to authentic Christianity, liberalism is a danger. For example, a friend and I went to a lecture by Muslims about Islam. This lecture took place at a Christian church; St. Michael and all Angels Episcopal Church – Alb. NM. It was quite…