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  • Why are people named Jesus only in Latin America?

    There are a billion Christians across the world, many of whom name their children after Christian characters such as Joseph, Mary, Matthew, and so on. But it seems that only in Latin America you find people named after Jesus. Why isn't the practice more common in other parts of the world?
    Posted to Explainer by Ellsass on December 24, 2008

  • Fantastic article!

    Someone tell me why those in the USA who try so hard to get the 10 commandments posted all over in our public square and taught to our kids in school break so many of them trying to get that done? And also fight so hard to take money from the poor and middle class and put in the hands of the rich? And also to keep corporate greed-based health ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by redneckliberalpostbush on November 30, 2008

  • Holocaust and the establishment of the Jewish state

    ''Dispensationalism'' as such is a relatively new theology finding is birth in the late 1890's. Most Christians around the world have rejected it--if they heard of it at all. It resembles a 4th century heresy which insisted the ''1000 year reign of the righteous'' found in the Revelation of St. John was literal and not symbolic as the Church had ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by CRABBY APPLE MICK LEE on May 29, 2008

  • Cross vs. Crucifix

    ''[A] card bearing the image of a near-naked man being... nailed through his hands and feet onto a wooden crucifix is a markedly less pleasant piece of mail.'' Small error here. He was nailed to a cross, not a crucifix. A crucifix, specifically, is a piece of statuary or jewelry representing Jesus on the cross. If the Christ figure is ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by strider72 on March 24, 2008

  • Comparing Christ to Abu Ghraib Prisoners?

    I find it astonishing and degrading to Christians that the author compared Christ to prisoners at Abu Ghraib! ''Jesus of Nazareth was not only physically brutalized but also casually humiliated during his torture, echoing the abuses at Abu Ghraib. In 21st-century Iraq, some American soldiers posed prisoners with women's underwear on their heads ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by Aghast79 on March 20, 2008

  • Mike's Buyers Guide to God - Part III

    Hard Copy Whatever it is you want in a God, you probably want it in writing. In the form of stone tablets, sheets or scrolls of papyrus, illuminated vellum manuscripts, gold plates or cheap paperbacks, most religions can provide you with their histories and beliefs, their do's and don'ts. If this were a buyers guide to cars or ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by Eckolake on February 27, 2008

  • Mike's Buyers Guide to God - Part II

    Unless you follow St. Augustine of Hippo or John Calvin, who, by the way, never even made Saint, let alone Patron Saint of Brewers as Augustine did, you have something called free will and, yes, that's an enormous burden as well as an empowering freedom. And, for God's sake, if you're firmly in that predestination camp, pass this on at once to ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by Eckolake on February 26, 2008

  • Mike's Buyers Guide to God - Part I

    Find the religion that's right for you by answering these two questions: What do I want from God? and What does God want from me? Whether you're a first time shopper or just no longer satisfied with your current spiritual affiliation, you need help. If you were looking for a new house or car your local bookstore's shelves would be ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by Eckolake on February 26, 2008

  • Re: Does Jesus Condone Capital Punishment?

    ANSWER: In the context of the American penal system and American capitalist society: NO!!!!!!! Immorality and crime are tied to many things, including family upbringing, socialization, economic condition, political status, and more. Jesus (upon whom be peace and God's blessings) would likely reject the way America functions, period. And ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by Usama2 on January 8, 2008

  • Very well written, but...

    The so-called Mormon views that are focused on are hardly the core of the Mormon gospel. Rather, they are the version of Mormonism that SBC pamphlets would like to focus on. If you want to know what Mormons really believe, read the Articles of Faith, written by Joseph Smith in response to a request for clarity by Mr. Wentworth of the Chicago ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by JedMerrill on December 20, 2007
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