christianity

In this interview by Bill Maher, Jeff Sharlett discusses an illegal lobbying organization called The Family, a Christian fundamentalist organization which apparently controls many members of the US government. I'm not certain how much stock to put into this, but it's rather scary. Anyway...

Yesterday Representative Steve King (R-IA) was the only member to vote against recognizing history of slave labor in the U.S. capitol. The House of Representatives voted 399-1 for the Capitol Visitors Center to have a plaque acknowledging the role of slave labor in the construction of the...

Yesterday I had a conversation about the whole Middle East mess with a colleague and we also talked about Israel as a part of it. When the Holocaust came up as an "accelerator" for immigration into Palestine, he argued that "the Holocaust probably never had happened if the Jews wouldn't have...

For people who have studied the history of Christianity and the Bible, particularly the New Testament, it should be no surprise that most (all?) of the earliest Christians believed that the Second Coming of Christ would occur very soon -- in their very lifetimes, in fact. This is clear in the...

I saw a special on the history channel a while back about the history of crucifixion. It ended with a blow-by-blow account of the crucifixion of Jesus as described in the gospels. Evidently, the account was very much in line with what we know about the Roman practice, which was designed to make...

I was discussing religion with a Christian friend and coworker yesterday, and he brought up Jesus. This is usually problematic for me, because while I may be able to argue against the existence of God, I have little knowledge about the New Testament and the life of Jesus of Nazareth, and I told...

I’m not necessarily taking this poster seriously but it was thought provoking and it looked like it would be a fun question to throw out. So did Christianity have a serious impact on scientific advancements or were other influences like invading barbarians the real culprit?

Hello everyone. Early this evening I was having a debate/discussion with my friend that began with the Hot-Burrito-Paradox. I don't know if that's what it's properly called, but the general question is: if God is omnipotent, can he create a burrito so hot that he can't eat it? My friend stated...

Something I've heard quite often from believers is that humans are, in the words of the last person I heard it from, "inherently evil". Others have put it in other ways - "humans are wretched sinners", "humanity's fruits are rotten", and so on, but it's always the same basic principle: that...

Mystery Babylon of Revelation 17-18, Isaiah 13-14, 47-48; Jeremiah 50-51; etc. is America & New York City, and there are many cities & nations like Iraq which God made fit the description of Babylon in many uncommon ways (although not fully like USA & NYC) to foreshadow the fall of America &...

Astoundingly, there are approximately forty cities on "seven hills" (Rev. 17:9), & all or almost every one of them exceedingly resemble "Babylon the great whore" of Revelation 17-18 of whose wine all the nations drink, which is described as both a "woman" & "the great city," and who commits...

In another thread Volatile asked the excellent question as to why I converted from atheism to theism, and that subset of theism known as Christianity. http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=4216892#post4216892 I very much doubt anyone gives a hoot, and I am not that...

Major Misconception: The Earth is 6000 years old. In the book of Genesis (1:1) it states 'When God created the universe, the Earth was formless and desolate" So the book starts with the Earth already half-formed. So obviously, the 7 days of creation are not meant as a week. And its not meant...

http://www.proofthatgodexists.org/index.php Well I guess that wraps it up....Next question. /sarcasm This seems to be an extended version of the ontological argument with Christianity mixed in at the end.

I just visited my brother in Wichita. He has BPD and becomes whoever he is around. This woman he is dating is a dyed in the wool Baptist. I found a DVD when he was out next to his tv that looked like a time share video called watermark celebration heights. I popped it in to see if he was getting...

I finally have my website running, called PRIMARYPROOFSOFCHRISTIANITY.COM, which is the result of many years of careful study of the Bible, other classic texts which I read at St. John's College in Maryland, nature, and history. I call these "primary" proofs of Christianity because they are...

Just a thought. There has never been a secular state allowed to flourish under Islam, but Christianity has allowed this to an extent. Should credit be given to Christianity for this? Christianity, taken to a somewhat extreme, would like for everyone to be Christian, but it doesn't kill, or...

http://www.sliceoflaodicea.com/apologetics/youtube-crosstalk-slice-crn-and-david-koresh/ Lane Chaplin has posted another Crosstalk clip on YouTube. This one is from a recent program that addressed the statements by Richard Abanes that online discernment ministries are xenophobic...

If anyone's interested. My book is finished. It's available on Amazon.com Here. I'm submitting it to some Christian magazines and Atheist Magazines to hopefully review and I've also contacted a few people here to send a copy to to review it. It turned out different then I intended but I'm happy...

Ok, I have a little story to begin this thread with. At least twice a week my wife and I go to fitness classes at a local gym. We really love the gym. It is small, but the people there are very nice and the classes suit our needs very well. One of the instructors there is my best friend...

It looks like Christianity is growing fast in China. There will be a Frontline Report tonight Tuesday June 24, at 9 p.m. on PBS entitled Jesus in China. Unfortunately, I might have to miss it, so I need all of you to fill me in on it. In the ad, it says the Chinese ruling party, officially...

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080529/SCHOOLS/805290380 Was the pastor within his right to do so?

Okay, most of the arguments I had against Christianity have been reconciled by Christians. I've been reading the bible and I'm almost finished Deuteronomy. So, now that Christians have patched up the holes in their beliefs, I'm getting really frustrated and depressed because I'm starting to...

So in this post: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=113235 the person found this fliar: http://www.revivalmovement.org/acatalog/info_115.html I thought this quote was interesting: What would your answer be to that old lady?

Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere, but take a look here for a fascinating account of an atheist going undercover in a fundamentalist Christian group: http://www.alternet.org/rights/84043?page=1 The account is by turns (and sometimes simultaneously) immensely disturbing and...

OK, so I make this request in part because this would benefit the community (knowledge shared), and because I could use this link myself:). In another discussion on this forum (I believe it was this forum), in response to some Christian feeling persecuted by the ACLU, a poster linked to a site...

A fistfight broke out recently between a group of Orthodox Greeks and Orthodox Armenians over turf at Jesus' (alleged) tomb: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080420/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_clashing_christians I'm not one of Jesus' followers, but to my best understanding, it's rather contrary to his...

I just found this in the "best of" section on craigslist. I liked the perspective that this person came from. http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/596568636.html

Fairly recently I rejected my hereditary Christian faith, and thus I've spent the intervening time being repeatedly assaulted by evangelics. Possibly surprisingly, however, they hadn't until recently begun to argue from history. The 'divine' acts that they claim to have most evidence for seem to...

Maybe some of you can help me. I'm baffled today by an encounter at my place of work. In a nutshell: Long after most people had cleared out of the office, I printed out one or two political pieces by Christopher Hitchens on the office printer, and also a couple of pieces very critical of...