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This Texas Mall Just Put Up a Giant Ten Commandments Monument

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 422 Comments • 6 years ago

Source The newly named Music City Mall in Lewisville, Texas has a new attraction. It’s not another anchor store. It’s not an Apple Store. It’s a giant Ten Commandments monument installed by...

Pope shocks Chile by accusing sex abuse victims of slander

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 59 Comments • 6 years ago

Source SANTIAGO, Chile — Pope Francis accused victims of Chile's most notorious pedophile of slander Thursday, an astonishing end to a visit meant to help heal the wounds of a sex abuse...

Mat Staver: Christians Can’t “Get a Fair Shake” In Front of an Openly Gay Judge

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 63 Comments • 6 years ago

Source Christian Right activist Mat Staver, last seen lying about the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hate Tracker,” is furious that Andrew McDonald may soon become the chief justice of the...

Washington Post ad slams Lorde as ‘bigot’ for boycotting Israel

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Religion & Ethics • 44 Comments • 6 years ago

Washington Post ad slams Lorde as ‘bigot’ for boycotting Israel By World Israel News staff, January 2, 2018 This iframe is not allowed New Zealand pop singer Lorde (Grant...

In Chile, Pope Francis faces sex abuse scandal head-on

Via: dean-moriarty • Religion & Ethics • 3 Comments • 6 years ago

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-catholic-church-sexual-abuse-protests-chile/ AP January 16, 2018, 10:12 AM Pope Francis arrives to leads a mass at the O'Higgins Park in...

The Quran Says Jerusalem Belongs to the Jews

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Religion & Ethics • 2 Comments • 6 years ago

The Quran Says Jerusalem Belongs to the Jews by Saied Shoaaib , Gatestone Institute, January 15, 2018 Following U.S. President Donald Trump's December 6 official recognition of...

First Worldwide Survey of Religion and Science: No, Not All Scientists are Atheists

Via: calbab • Religion & Ethics • 63 Comments • 6 years ago

AMY MCCAIG – DECEMBER 3, 2015 Are all scientists atheists? Do they believe religion and science can co-exist? These questions and others were addressed in the first worldwide...

White evangelicalism vs. missionaries

Via: bob-nelson • Religion & Ethics • 21 Comments • 6 years ago

Be a missionary ev’ry day Tell the world that Jesus is the way Be it in the town or country Or a busy avenue Africa or Asia The choice is up to you The Lord is soon returning...

Athanasius: Easter Letter of A. D. 367

Via: calbab • Religion & Ethics • 8 Comments • 6 years ago

The first official document which prescribes the twenty-seven books of our New Testament as alone canonical is Athanasius's Easter Letter for the year 367. ~ Norman Geisler....

Moody’s critics lament liberal shift away from biblical white supremacy

Via: bob-nelson • Religion & Ethics • 1 Comments • 6 years ago

Yesterday — “Moody people” — we looked at the infighting roiling the venerable Moody Bible Institute. The school was founded by revivalist Dwight Moody and has been, for more than a century, a...

Reasonable Doubts - How Jesus Became God

Via: calbab • Religion & Ethics • 180 Comments • 6 years ago

Jeremy Beahan and Justin Schieber of the now defunct Reasonable Doubts Podcast, interviews Dr. Bart Ehrman on his book "How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee."...

White Evangelical Hostility to Science is Still a Thing

Via: bob-nelson • Religion & Ethics • 3 Comments • 6 years ago

I’m calling shenanigans on this Religion News Service commentary by sociologists Christopher P. Scheitle and Elaine Howard Ecklund, “ Evangelicals’ surprising view of science and what it may...

An unbalanced butchering of the First Amendment

Via: bob-nelson • Religion & Ethics • 2 Comments • 6 years ago

NPR’s Tom Gjelten focused on an important subject in this piece for Morning Edition last month, “From Roy Moore to Tax Debate, a Spotlight on Christian Nationalism.” That link takes you to...

Unlicensed Christian Counselor Arrested on Charge of Sexual Assault

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 1 Comments • 6 years ago

Source Last week, Daniel Durward Staats, a counselor from Dalton, Georgia, was arrested after allegedly soliciting sex from one of his clients. He appeared to be heading in that direction...

Evangelical Christianity Is Facing a Political Crisis: It Will Need More Than a Makeover

Via: bob-nelson • Religion & Ethics • 4 Comments • 7 years ago

The Christian faith was the real loser in the Roy Moore campaign. Ok, evangelicals do have a brand problem—but they also have a major product problem. Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore...

Baptist Preacher Gives Congregation Advice on How to Avoid a Gay Waiter

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 176 Comments • 7 years ago

Source Adam Fannin is the pastor of Jacksonville Stedfast Baptist. That church is part of a network of Independent Fundamentalist Baptist churches founded by Donnie Romero, an anti-gay...

The Case For Christ (Movie)

By: calbab • Religion & Ethics • 129 Comments • 7 years ago

My Take: Back in the 1990's I read the book, The Case For Christ by Lee Strobel and it is fascinating to see it has become a full-length movie after several decades! Not all...

So what if we’re doomed?

Via: bob-nelson • Religion & Ethics • 2 Comments • 7 years ago

In the winter of 2013, I drove up California’s Central Valley to Stockton, to interview Cambodian parents who’d lost children in one of the nation’s many mass school shootings. A local man named...

How Can I Possibly Believe That Faith Is Better Than Doubt?

Via: bob-nelson • Religion & Ethics • 9 Comments • 7 years ago

Why is it that, according to Jesus, faith is better than proof? That’s a question I’ve struggled to answer ever since I began my pilgrimage of faith as a young man. Sometimes it seemed more...

Do Muslims, Christians and Jews All Believe In The Same God?

Via: johnrussell • Religion & Ethics • 79 Comments • 7 years ago

I would like to pose this as a yes or no question, which you can then expound on. Do Muslims, Christians and Jews All Believe In The Same God?

Arkansas to Reinstall 10 Commandments, Lawsuit Imminent

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 203 Comments • 7 years ago

Source The Arkansas 10 Commandments monument is set to be reinstalled on their State Capital grounds next week and The Satanic Temple (as well as several other organizations) have said they...

Christians Need a New Right-to-Life Movement

Via: bob-nelson • Religion & Ethics • 1 Comments • 7 years ago

At least since Martin Luther nailed his theses to the church door in 1517, Christians have disagreed on what Jesus calls them to do in the name of faith. There are nearly 34,000 Christian...

Peter Boghossian wants to end faith in God!

By: calbab • Religion & Ethics • 229 Comments • 7 years ago

Why does Peter Boghossian mean when he says faith is, "Delusional"? Why does Peter Boghossian define faith as, "Pretending to know things you don't know"? Why does Peter Boghossian...

The VOICE FINALE: Uplifting or One Big Drag?

By: calbab • Religion & Ethics • 6 Comments • 7 years ago

The Voice! Finale was fierce from the top seconds of opening! Entertainment was smoking and that was while main man Billy Idol flamed the stage with 80's mega-hit White Wedding! Brooke Simpson...

Court evangelical makes ludicrous claim about his support for Jerusalem policy

Via: bob-nelson • Religion & Ethics • 17 Comments • 7 years ago

Johnnie Moore, the former communications VP at Liberty University who now identifies himself as “an informal spokesperson for the evangelicals who advise the Trump administration,” wants you to...