59 results for 'christianity'
What Should We Do About Doubt?
...have any doubts at all as to whether God intended you to embrace homosexuality and dance freely in your self-definition. The church will have you doubting your very salvation if your dalliance with decadence does not diminish overnight as soon as they point out that you have tainted all of Christianity with your sin because it is so much worse than any of theirs. Lest you doubt that to be true, just tempt fate by yielding to temptation. Many churches adhere strongly to a catch and release philosophy.
Anyone with a significant struggle, such as same-sex attraction, deals with doubt. ... (more)
Tags: religion, gay, marriage, family, health, relationships, pornography, faith, christian, sexuality, ex-gay, glbt
Death Tweet
...all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
Winston Churchill, The River War, 1899
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Crying For America
...to what our founding fathers wanted for us all. He’s clearly anti-business, hates the rich (unless they’re giving him donations), sees America as arrogant, and wants nothing more than to bring us into the arena of socialism. He seeks to control everything you do, take the principles of Christianity off the table, make you super-dependent on Government, and hold you in his arms as he rips your hard-earned money from your callused hands. His greedy hands and fingers are salivating over another term, to complete his agenda so that no matter who precedes his administration, the damage will ... (more)
Tags: obama, american politics, liberalism, americas future, randy mitchell, 2012 election, conservatism, presidential politics
Fanning the Flames of Homophobia
... (consultation, what consultation?) the cost of this red tape revolution will run into millions. Oh, well, we have money to burn, do we not, in these economically vibrant times? We certainly do, bombing Libya into a new Islamic dark age at one point, introducing gay marriage and undermining Christianity at another. Oops, there I go, fanning the flames of homophobia!
Actually, no, but I am fanning the flames of Liberalphobia, expressing my contempt for all those knuckle-heads like Featherstone who have no greater cause than to interfere in the lives of others, forcing people to... (more)
Tags: christianity, gay marriage, british government, social policy
Take your religion and shove it...
...in life. (They believe Jesus' spirit was resurrected into heaven, that he did not walk again on earth in his human flesh days after his crucifixion . This, despite the fact that the bible states there were 500 witnesses to his physical resurrection.) I'm fully aware that many of modern Christianity's celebrations and symbols are taken from pagans. I know that it's highly unlikely that Jesus was actually BORN on Christmas. I know that rabbits are the sign of fertility and we've adopted that as a concept of re-birth. Easter is as much a celebration of Spring as it is of Christ's... (more)
Tags: religion, bible, beliefs, jehovah's witness, argue
Proving his rampant ignorance, Willard unleashes a whopper!
... governance. They were not trying to found a new religion and they were not seeking to invest an existing religion with civil power. For them religion was between the individual and whatever he or she conceived the deity to be. Though many of the Founders and Framers practiced some variety of Christianity, few of them sought to create the government of the nation as a weapon for the triumph of their particular denomination. We should follow their wise example.
Regardless of our sectarian beliefs, whether we are devotely Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, or Humanistic, our... (more)
Tags: patriotism, constitution, unity, separation of church and state, citizenship, republic, 2012 election campaign
Christian Holocaust
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Left-liberals are much given to gnashing of teeth over the plight of the Palestinians at the hands of the Israelis. There are no laments at all over the persecution of Palestinians…by other Palestinians. The threat even extends to Bethlehem, the literal and metaphorical cradle of Christianity.
As Davis mentions in his article (Out of the east), thirty years ago three quarters of the people living in the West Bank town were Christian. A reign of terror by Islamic extremists, involving land theft, intimidation and beatings, has reduced that figure to an estimated ten per... (more)
Defender of the Faith
...sense of respect, I could look upon the pronouncements of Rowan Williams, the muddle-headed Archbishop of Canterbury, with equanimity; but I cannot; he retains the power to madden me with some of his more outrageous statements.
So, yes, I value the Church of England just as I value Christianity, as I value spirituality in general. Even so I can respect atheism, those who have no place in their personal life for God our any form of spiritual insight; those whose horizons are purely (I was tempted to write bleakly) material. What I loath is the atheist proselytisers, those who would... (more)
Tags: christianity, atheism, church of england, secularism
Monster Redux - Principles, Purposes and Politics
...got slaves to gather riches”
In its origins, America began as a quest by some for freedom from the dominant powers of European civilization. This was not an all-embracing freedom, but a more limited self-regarding freedom. The Puritans wanted the freedom to impose their brand of Christianity on anyone they could bring within their sphere. Some like the Quakers in Pennsylvania and Roger Williams in Rhode Island wanted a more expansive freedom for all Christians. None of the English colonizers cared much about freedom for people with darker skin or the different physical features... (more)
All Enemies, Foreign And Domestic
“The National Government will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built up. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality and the family as the basis of national life.”
“It is the purpose of the Government to fill our whole culture once more with a Christian spirit, and that not only in politics. We want to burn out the harmful features in our theater and our literature.”
“The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, is creating and securing the conditions necessary... (more)
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