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Aussie Lawyer Will Help Christians Promising to Divorce After Marriage Equality

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 38 Comments • 7 years ago

Source It was two years ago when Nick and Sarah Jensen, a Christian couple from Australia, made a shocking proclamation: If marriage equality were ever legalized in their country, they would...

OF SIN AND SINNERS BY ENOCH and JOHN RUSSELL

Via: johnrussell • Religion & Ethics • 2 Comments • 7 years ago

OF SIN AND SINNERS BY JOHN RUSSELL AND ENOCH ====================== JOHN RUSSELL: I want to thank Enoch for asking me to participate in this article. I am not a theologian as Enoch is,...

GOP Lawmaker Resigns After “Inappropriate Conduct” With a Man in His Office

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 4 Comments • 7 years ago

Source Ohio State Rep. Wes Goodman frequently talked about his Christian faith and family values, so I suppose it was only a matter of time before he resigned in disgrace following...

RBR - Roy Moore: The Ultimate Test For Evangelicals

Via: bob-nelson • Religion & Ethics • 143 Comments • 7 years ago

It really is starting to feel like something supernatural and apocalyptic is at foot in our country during the Trump Era. So many secret sexual sins are being publicly exposed. It’s like God is...

"Allahu Akbar": Islamic Battle Cry

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Religion & Ethics • 1 Comments • 7 years ago

"Allahu Akbar": Islamic Battle Cry by A. Z. Mohamed , Gatestone Institute, November 9, 2017 Within hours of the recent ISIS-inspired truck-ramming attack in lower...

Paul Ryan to “Far Secular Left”: After Mass Shootings, “Prayer Works”

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 86 Comments • 7 years ago

Source Add House Speaker Paul Ryan to the list of Republicans offering only thoughts and prayers in the wake of Sunday’s mass shooting in a Texas church, because taking meaningful action is...

The Daily Californian Refuses to Publish My Response to an Anti-Semitic Op-Ed

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Religion & Ethics • 9 Comments • 7 years ago

The Daily Californian Refuses to Publish My Response to an Anti-Semitic Op-Ed by Alan M. Dershowitz, Gatestone Institute, November 7, 2017 On November 3, The Daily Californian published an...

An Anti-Semitic Caricature of Me Generates No Criticism from Berkeley Hard Left

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Religion & Ethics • 163 Comments • 7 years ago

An Anti-Semitic Caricature of Me Generates No Criticism from Berkeley Hard Left by Alan M. Dershowitz, Gatestone Institute, October 26, 2017 I was recently invited to present the liberal...

Evangelizing Freedom

Via: singled-out-3 • Religion & Ethics • 2 Comments • 7 years ago

Have Protestant ideas of human dignity and the importance of the individual impacted modern conceptions of human and civil rights? We have previously looked at the metaphysical ideas behind...

The symmetric property of 2 Timothy 3:16

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

James McGrath writes about 2 Timothy 3:16 the favorite verse of those who assert their authority by defending the authority of the scriptures. My fundamentalist friends, bless em, love to...

Yes, That Cartoon of Me Was Anti-Semitic

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Religion & Ethics • 5 Comments • 7 years ago

Yes, That Cartoon of Me Was Anti-Semitic by Alan M. Dershowitz • November 1, 2017 When the official newspaper of Berkeley published a color caricature of me as a spider-like creature with...

Clearing the Fog: ‘Christianity Doesn’t Need Evidence Because Faith is Blind’

By: singled-out-3 • Religion & Ethics • 354 Comments • 7 years ago

Many atheist critiques of Christianity claim that faith is blind, irrational, stupid. In his book The God Delusion, leading atheist Richard Dawkins asserts that faith opposes reason, and calls...

What My Latest Research on Christianophobia Means

Via: singled-out-3 • Religion & Ethics • 25 Comments • 7 years ago

Often when I write on Christianophobia, I point out that the people who display this type of bigotry are more likely to be white, male, educated and wealthy than others. Your average...

Churches Have Religious Freedom, People Not So Much

Via: xxjefferson51 • Religion & Ethics • 4 Comments • 7 years ago

Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin from Wisconsin has a bizarre interpretation of the 1st Amendment.According to the first openly gay senator in U.S. history, the line in the Constitution that states...

NASHVILLE STATEMENT - A Coalition for Biblical Sexuality

Via: calbab • Religion & Ethics • 655 Comments • 7 years ago

“Know that the LORD Himself is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves…” -Psalm 100:3 Preamble Evangelical Christians at the dawn of the twenty-first century find themselves...

DEBATE: Is Gender A Personal Choice?

Via: calbab • Religion & Ethics • 420 Comments • 7 years ago

This Girl Defined video is a vblog by Kristen Clark and Bethany Baird, sisters, lifelong friends, and the founders of Girl Defined Ministries. 1. From a Christian perspective should you set...

Top 10 Ethical Dilemmas in War Movies

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Religion & Ethics • 2 Comments • 7 years ago

Top 10 Ethical Dilemmas in War Movies Dead civilians, suicidal orders, and the ethics of war. by Johnny Rico ThoughtCo. Updated March 01, 2017 War is generally considered to be...

Christian Shelter Forces Homeless Women to Give 10% to Megachurch

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 62 Comments • 7 years ago

Source A Christian women’s shelter in Alabama is forcing homeless residents to attend the largest megachurch in the state and, when they get a job, give that church 10 percent of their...

Why the disagreements over religion?

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Religion & Ethics • 338 Comments • 7 years ago

Why the disagreements over religion? What I have noticed for years now is that atheist members seem to feel a need to criticize and challenge the beliefs that others have about religion....

Philosophy Question: Would You Kill One Person to Save Five?

Via: johnrussell • Religion & Ethics • 8 Comments • 7 years ago

Philosophers love to conduct thought experiments. Often these involve rather bizarre situations, and critics wonder how relevant these thought experiments are to the real world. But the point of...

Do Glass Pipes, Incense Prove Teens Are Practicing Shamanism?

Via: krishna • Religion & Ethics • 12 Comments • 7 years ago

(An "Oldie but Goodie" from The Onion News Network)

Jesus returns

Via: hal-a-lujah • Religion & Ethics • 23 Comments • 7 years ago

Here’s the Awful Way a Popular Christian Homeschooling Curriculum Covers Racism