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  • Hitchens lets his passion undermine his point

    These rants from Hitchens have entertainment value, I suppose, but as with all of today's opinion-driven media they must be taken with a grain of salt. A lot could be written, but I'll just focus on one point here: Hitchens is mistaken to think that a failure to conflate Mormonism with Christianity indicates bigotry. The teachings of Mormonism ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by ricodetroit on December 21, 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

  • Lieing Hypocrites

    What an article. Talk about no research. Did the author just call up the JW PR department and copy down everything they told him? Yes, the Watchtower Society promoted the fact that the poor Witnesses in the African country of Malawi were being persecuted because they were told by the Watchtower not to buy a political I.D. card. If they did the ...
    Posted to Explainer by Harry Harr on June 28, 2008

  • Re: Obama tries to get Xians to vote against their beliefs?

    Did you actually read/listen to the speech? It's available, in its entirety on the 'Net. What Obama actually said was that Christians should bring their faith to the government, but they should understand that other people will bring their faith to the government as well. It's why he said: ''And even if we did have only Christians in our midst, ...
    Posted to Politics by socsci387 on June 27, 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Salvation don't come cheap.

    The central problem with Scientology and other cults is that there is no distinction between the religion and the faith. You must pay (handsomely) to obtain Scientology's salvation (it's ''freedom'' concept). There's no room for penniless Scientologists. Judaism, Islam, Christianity ... they all manage to separate the organized religion from the ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by ATOMICPunkSTL on August 3, 2007
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