Christianity Is Not About Being Nice, Even Jesus Got Angry
Elshtain is right, viewing Christianity as an ethic of universal niceness and attributing it to Jesus Christ, is an aberration of Christianity. It misses the point.
Goodness and Meaning: Made for God
Are we made for God, the One who is all goodness and truth, or are we just intelligent slime, thrown up from some primeval soup? In A River out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life, Richard Dawkins declared: ‘The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.’ Is that true? Or does Augustine sound like he gets it right?: ‘You have made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in You.’ Let us look…
Fall of the West, Rise of Islam
Francis Schaeffer in his book, “The God Who is There,” argues that relativism has destroyed the form of society by removing structure and morality. As a result people today have an internal void which causes them to look for some kind of stability. I believe this is what has given rise to the hedonistic culture we currently see in the West. Further, this change has also contributed to the rise of Islam. In an effort to fill the void, people embraced pleasure (sex, drugs, alcohol etc.) hoping to fill the emptiness within. These temporal pleasures, however, failed to deliver what…
Belgian minister calls for ban on Christian television after program reads a verse about wives submitting to their husbands.
A Belgian minister has called for Christian television to be banned after a Songs of Praise-style program gave an on-screen Bible reading calling for women to be submissive to their husbands. Sven Gatz, the minister for media in Flanders, told the Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad that he would make a renewed push for the abolition of religious services on public funded channels. “Of course I am not behind these kinds of statements,” he said. “The fact that they come from an old book is not an argument for letting them go on our people. This is not of this time,…
Agnostic Historian Says, ‘I Changed My Mind About Christianity’
“In my morals and ethics, I have learned to accept that I am not Greek or Roman at all, but thoroughly and profoundly Christian.”