Tag: Christianity

School board members in Alabama have decided not to ban a man known as the “Bible Man” from holding monthly meetings with elementary school children.

A Christian group has been banned from claiming that God can heal illnesses on its website and in leaflets.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is protesting an unconstitutional resolution naming 2012 the “Year of the Bible,” unanimously passed (193-0) in the Pennsylvania General Assembly this week.

Do Mormons believe in Christianity?  Well, not really.

Christian congregations that are weeks away from expulsion from New York City’s public schools are focusing on more-religious tools in their arsenal: prayer, fasting and repentance.

It has been nearly 50 years since the Supreme Court ruled that officially sponsored prayer in public schools violated the separation of church and state. But in some corners of the country, open prayer and Christian symbols have never disappeared from schools.

The Republican plan to nullify the courts and establish Christian theocracy.

James ‘Fat Boy’ Onen has been speaking in the UK of his fight against superstition and religion in Uganda

A federal appeals court Tuesday rejected the claim of a San Diego-area mathematics teacher that his 1st Amendment rights were violated when the school’s principal ordered him to take down classroom banners that referred to God.

Human rights lawyers and victims of clergy sexual abuse filed a complaint on Tuesday urging the International Criminal Court in The Hague to investigate and prosecute Pope Benedict XVI and three top Vatican officials for crimes against humanity for what they described as abetting and covering up the rape and sexual assault of children by priests.

“Pastor Mike” Stahl thinks it only proper that atheists be submitted to National Registry (not unlike sex offenders), so that the God-fearing public can be made aware of unbelievers in their midst.

New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman, in addressing the issue of early Christian forgeries, writes that there is a history of “lies and deception in the history of the Christian religion” and “irony in the fact that lies and deception have historically been used to establish the ‘truth.’” It is beyond contestation, as he points out in his recent book, Forged (2011) that pious Christians practiced deceit on a large scale.

The economy is not what ails us today. No, what ails Americans is what Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and their artistic spawn have wrought in the culture, starting 500 years ago. The Renaissance has dragged us all down.

Now some conservative scholars are saying publicly that they can no longer believe the Genesis account. Asked how likely it is that we all descended from Adam and Eve, Dennis Venema, a biologist at Trinity Western University, replies: “That would be against all the genomic evidence that we’ve assembled over the last 20 years, so not likely at all.”

In Holland, the reverend of a mainstream Protestant church preaches that God is not a supernatural being, there is no after-life and the Bible is mythological

The diffuse nature of evangelical charitable giving makes fundraising figures elusive, but anyone who spends a little time reading, talking, or worshipping with evangelicals can’t miss the fact that they have a zeal for honoring martyrs and connecting with persecuted Christians abroad. They love a good sermon on the afflictions of the righteous. Their churches sponsor persecuted congregations abroad and screen movies with titles like Tortured for Christ. To give the youngsters a more vivid taste of virtual martyrdom, one organization offers an activity kit called “Locked Up,” “a 12-hour simulation of a prison-like setting” to challenge youth groups “to live their role in God’s great story of the Church around the world.” Although homegrown martyrs are scant these days, American evangelicals never stop feting the few they have: One of the most famous evangelical women of the 20th century is ex-missionary Elisabeth Elliot, whose 1957 account of her husband’s martyrdom at the hands of a hostile Ecuadorean tribe is still selling briskly a half-century later.

Confessed perpetrator behind the recent Norway shootings claims,  “Just like Jihadi warriors are the plum tree of the Ummah, we will be the plum tree for Europe and for Christianity,”.

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In the non-apologetic refrain of Hitchens: Once again, religion poisons everything (?).

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As America celebrates its birthday on July 4, the timeless words of Thomas Jefferson will surely be invoked to remind us of our founding ideals—that “All men are created equal” and are “endowed by their Creator” with the right to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” These phrases, a cherished part of our history, have rightly been called “American Scripture.”

Southern Baptists on Wednesday (June 15) called hell an “eternal, conscious punishment” for those who do not accept Jesus, rebutting a controversial book from Michigan pastor Rob Bell that questions traditional views of hell.

God is separately backing at least three different contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, sending signs and direct messages to each of these candidates encouraging them to run, presumably without telling them that he supports other candidates as well.