My family and I live in Florida and were recently visited by a powerful hurricane named Irma. As I’m writing this, the Weather Channel has identified another powerful hurricane churning out in the ocean: Maria. Right now, models are predicting it will avoid Florida but our friends in the Carolinas may not be so fortunate. …
Multiple Sources, Martyrdoms, and Early Religious Persecution Distinguish Christianity
The following blog offers several reasons in support of Christianity based on the sources of the Bible, the martyrdoms of many of those sources, and the power of Christianity to thrive despite its humble roots and early religious persecution. Multiple Sources Of the major religions in the world, few are based on a collection …
Can Good People of Faiths Other Than Christianity Receive Salvation?
One of my Muslim colleagues invited me and my family to his home for dinner a short while back. When we arrived, we were shocked at the generous volume of food that he and his wife had spent the entire day preparing. I have never seen so much food prepared for only six people to …
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Where Can I Flee From Your Presence?
“Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there. If I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even …
Health Correlates of Religiosity and Atheism
A famous advertisement by British Humanists on the sides of London buses reads, “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy yourself” (Whitley, 2010). Should people pay attention? The percentage of people who do not identify with a religious institution or who consider themselves atheist or agnostic has increased in recent years in some …
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Something about Mary: The Miracles of Our Lady
More than any Christian faiths, Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox believers revere Mother Mary, praying to her with rosaries and honoring her for the Immaculate Conception of Jesus Christ. The intention of this blog is to present several examples of miracles that Catholics have attributed to Mother Mary: Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal, Our …
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The Weeds in Sam Harris’ Moral Landscape
Revised and updated June 17, 2018 Sam Harris, who is a best-selling author, outspoken atheist, and neuroscientist is considered one of the “four horsemen” of New Atheism, with Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and the late Christopher Hitchens. Yet his views contrast the views of other “New Atheists” because he endorses objective morality instead of relative …
Archaeological and Historical Extra-Biblical Evidence in Support of Christianity
The intention of the following blog is to provide archaeological and historical, extra-biblical evidence in support of God, the Bible, and Christianity. The blog will present this support in the order aforementioned. Archaeological Evidence “And He answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately …
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And Babylon Will Never Be Inhabitable
“For thirty-five years of my life, I was, in the proper acceptation of the word a nihilist – not a revolutionary socialist, but a man who believed in nothing. Five years ago my faith came to me. I believed in the doctrine of Jesus, and my whole life underwent a sudden transformation…Life and death ceased …
Stalin’s and Khrushchev’s Anti-Religious Campaigns
The intention of this very brief blog is to share a post from the United States Library of Congress on the campaign against the religious from the Soviet Union under Stalin and Khrushchev between the 1920s and 1985. Source: https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/anti.html “The Soviet Union was the first state to have as an ideological objective the elimination …
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