Ibn Warraq is a modern hero. Today, it doesn’t take too much for a Muslim or a former Muslim to get killed by other Muslims, even in the West. For divorcing her highly abusive husband, a Muslim woman can get decapitated even in the middle of Buffalo, NY. Or a girl can get shot for [...]
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We’ve talked before about Christopher Hitchens, his fuming against God, his fuming and raging against evangelical Christianity, particularly in relation to Jerry Falwell. Based on what he has said and the way he says it, it seems he is playing an act. Maybe he is an atheist, but it seems a lot of what he [...]
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Christopher Hitchens is dying of cancer and has declared that if there is a deathbed conversion, it won’t be be him talking but the disease. Hitchens is very critical of Christianity and religion, and has gone on record many times with rather harsh words for both. Is this the real Hitchens? Or, is all of [...]
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Christopher Hitchens is dying of cancer. He says five years, maybe. If he is as bad as he says, I would suspect less. Christian groups are praying for him—a few misguided ones for him to suffer and burn in hell, most however for his recovery and salvation. He is most at pains on this subject [...]
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According the the Proposition 8 decision, religion can no longer be considered when determining whether a sexual practice is morally and legally wrong. But this creates a few problems. When you take away religious considerations, there are quite a few evils left open for debate. For instance, apart from religious morality, how can you argue [...]
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In 1993, Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D- N.Y.) published “Defining Deviancy Down.” Moynihan started from Emile Durkheim’s proposition that there is a limit to the amount of deviant behavior any community can “‘afford to recognize’ and that, accordingly, we have been re-defining deviancy so as to exempt much conduct previously stigmatized, and also quietly raising [...]
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The statistics are staggering, 80% to 85% of young people leave the Church, never to return. As evolution, humanism and atheism continue to infiltrate our schools, theaters, magazines and television, our young people are faced with hard questions. If we send our children out into the world, unequipped to answer the hard questions and lacking [...]
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If atheism is true, and we evolved from pond scum, then, we are nothing more that bags of meat and bones with electricity coursing through us. The new atheists want to claim that somehow they can maintain their naturalistic, materialistic, atheistic worldview and also give some sort of moral order to it; this is impossible. [...]
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Michael Dowd, a minister and author of the book Thank God for Evolution!: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World, writes the following in his recently published article “Thank God for the New Atheists”: “Let the story of evolution be told in ways that engender familial love and [...]
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“[T]he English students at Harvard University once insisted on the Boston telephone book being placed on the reading list alongside the works of Shakespeare as . . . there is no greater merit in the one than the other. Good and evil are, therefore, totally relative to the society in which these values are held [...]
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