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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
Re: But the Biblical Teaching on Righteous Anger
But even the New Testament teaching on Righteous Anger (moneychangers in the temple) contradicts that absolute claim to non-violence. Jesus is perfectly violent, intolerant and even hateful in his dealing with those that are ''desacrating'' the sacred. And that inherently (combined with Revelations, and Acts) gives succor to anything but ...
Posted to Fighting Words by DeepCoffee on October 28, 2009
Re: I don't see how
...[I]t is hard to deny that this view of their religion is nevertheless an evolution of christian faith, based on reinterpretations of scripture and doctrines to accommodate modern views. This perspective might seem more cuddly and less open to attack from Hitchens and other anti-religious people but in fact it only highlights the ...
Posted to Fighting Words by DeepCoffee on October 28, 2009
When Will Hitch Debate a Non-Calvinist Non-Creationist?
There are many Christians who aren't Creationists, aren't Calvinists, and who don't fuse their faith with their politics. I hope Hitch finds himself on stage with one of those one of these days. I'd offer St. Paul, Minnesota's Greg Boyd as an example: http://www.youtube.com/deepcoffee#p/u/0/3_76SlSwZU8
Posted to Fighting Words by DeepCoffee on October 27, 2009
theology
I'm fascinated to find so much religion in an article by Christopher Hitchens. His comments are so vast in their scope, so broad in their application and so pointed in their content that they resemble nothing so much as theological dogma. He has condemned vast swathes of the American people from His papal seat based on His own stereotypes. ...
Posted to Fighting Words by barbershopcpa on June 29, 2009
Situation Comedy
Situation ComedyIf I had a doghe would be hidingunder the kitchen tablelooking embarrassedas I open and close every door in the housein a world whereI have no jobyou can see me go towhere it's always in the middle of the afternoon,getting franticbetween bouts of running to the upstairsyou never get to seeand saying helloto neighbors dropping in to ...
Posted to Poems by Ted Burke on May 2, 2009
THE RECORD OF TRUTH?
Christopher, Please do not stop reminding the New York Times of their role and responsibility in our society as the record of truth. They have a reputation to uphold - a reputation that has been diminished, significantly, in the past two decades or more. The erosion of their mini reason d'etre, ''All the news that's fit to print'', seems to be ...
Posted to Fighting Words by namronatsoc on March 16, 2009
To each his own religion
«It is still individuals who have rights, not religions.» I couldn't agree more with the above. Yet, as I read it, I couldn't help remembering a recent U. S. Supreme Court decision that corporations have the same protection as individuals under the U. S. Bill of Rights. I call this appalling, too.
Posted to Fighting Words by Jose Ferreira on March 4, 2009
Re: Playing political wack-a-mole with the brown nations..
I agree with you that trying to keep nukes out of the hands of nations that truly want them has not worked — and probably can not work — indefinitely. And of course there is a double standard when it comes to the U.S., Russia, etc. that makes nuclea non-proliferation entirely unappealing to other nations. However, theocracies (including Israel, ...
Posted to Fighting Words by ishmaeldaro on February 15, 2009
Libs angry over Nixon/Allende but silent on Israel/US/Gaza
How come liberals/leftists who denounced US role in Chile in the 70s are silent about US role in aiding Israel to kill Palestinians? In the early 70s, Allende, a Marxist came to power democratically in Chile. He was a friend of Castro and USSR. He was a lowlife anti-American commie. So, Nixon tried to use whatever means--CIA and economic ...
Posted to Today's Papers by Andrea Freiboden on January 18, 2009

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