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You are in my Prayers
I read your article, ''What I've learned from debating religious people around the world'' with fascination. To provide you with some insight I am what is commonly called an evangelical Christian, but could not be accurately labeled as a full Calvinist. I try my best to communicate in a manner that saves others from perdition and I likewise strive ...
Posted to Fighting Words by Steve Carlock on October 29, 2009
The best way to beat extremism...
One of the problems I have with tackling Islamic extremism is that most of it is rooted in other countries whereas there is a much more insidious dangerous cult on our own doorsteps that we should sort out first before we start lecturing the Muslim world about how they should be living. Whilst I agree with Hitchens on most of his points I do wish ...
Posted to Fighting Words by chunkylimey on August 17, 2009
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
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: Blecch.
You have conflated two different questions in your post above: (1) According to Biblical religions, why should we follow God's commandments?; and (2) What emotional needs do some Biblical religions appeal to in the course of drawing adherents to them? The first is a question of internal theology - in asking it, we're interested in the source ...
Posted to Faith-Based by nickkopernik on September 27, 2007
Comparative Religion and Atrocity
Perhaps we are timid about exploring the relationship between Islam and violence because it would require too close an examination of the relationship between religion and atrocity elsewhere, particularly in modern America. Most religions profess to promote peace and to prohibit the killing of one's fellow man. However, many of the greatest ...
Posted to Fighting Words by theo cratoclastus on July 31, 2007
Rage boy
Hi All, Let me first start by saying that although I do not agree entirely with all that he advocates, I highly respect Christopher Hitchins' thoughtful and incisive views and the objective, factual relevance of his arguments; not just on this issue but in the majority of his essays and books. In this mass media, technology age the ability to be ...
Posted to Fighting Words by Speaker's Corner on July 5, 2007