Christianity is well known for its emphasis on the expectation of the Return of Christ to set up the Kingdom of God on Earth. What’s not so well known is that Shia, a branch of Islam, has similar expectations regarding the Imam Mahdi, also known as the 12th Imam or the Hidden Imam....
Last night I read the final installment in the six-part email debate that has been taking place over the last month on ChristianityToday.com between atheistChristopher Hitchens(website) and Christian theistDouglas Wilson(blog). I thoroughly enjoyed it and heartily recommend it. Wilson is a cogent...
Zindler took the atheism side in an Atheism v. Christianity debate in front of 7,500 people at Willow Creek Community Church, USA. His opponent, DrWilliam Lane Craig, tore his ignorant arguments to shreds so effectively that many atheists in the audience realised that Zindler had lost the ...
Description:Despite its decidedly simple design, the website offers a straightforward and thoughtful introduction to the 11 of the world’s major religions, namely Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism and Zoroastrianism. A detailed introduction...
Christianity debates (although there have been a few Atheism vs. Islam debates). Beginning in the latter part of the 20th century, there were a number of notable instances of prominent atheists being reluctant to debate (see: Notable cases of prominent atheists being reluctant to debate). ...
biblical Christianity. So let’s do that; from the Bible we can deduce that there is in fact an immaterial aspect to humanity, to any individual. Call it the ‘soul’ if you like (though this word in Scripture has an overlapping range of meaning, which is why I’ve defined it before...
At least in the flavor of Christianity I came out of. This imaginary friend always needs more money! At least 10% of your gross, not net, income. And if you give more than that, he will do some special favors for you. Yep. He's just cool like that. But I do think it's ...
Please forgive this atheist if he finds it hard to take US Christians seriously when they talk about experiencing“hostility”and worry about possible irrelevance. Christianity remains the dominant culture of the USA, even if its adherents arebetter at talking the talk than walking the walk. As ...
So atheism is not only a rejection of the central conceptions of Judeo-Christianity and Islam, it is, as well, a rejection of the religious beliefs of such African religions as that of the Dinka and the Nuer, of the anthropomorphic gods of classical Greece and Rome, and of the ...
InFalse conflict: Christianity is not only compatible with Science - it created it. Stark writes: “Recent historical research has debunked the idea of a "Dark Ages" after the "fall" ofRome. In fact, this was an era of profound and rapid technological progress, by the end of which Europ...