I was taken aback by the Christian Brother’s response: “You disappoint me, Kerrigan. I thought you were one of the more intelligent pupils and would have figured out that we don’t teach you Catholicism in RE – we do that in history, Irish, geography, English and all the other ...
The French Bishops’ Conference slammed the tableau as a “mockery and derision of Christianity.” Mike Johnson, the right-wing Evangelical Speaker of the House in the United States Congress, decreed the performance “shocking and insulting to Christian people around the world.” The event’s arti...
The Christian doctrine of the Trinity explains that there is one God divided into three parts: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Jesus is considered the son and physical embodiment of God. The Gospel of Matthew claims that Jesus was born during the reign of Herod the Great, who upon ...
“Where there is great love,” he says, “there are always miracles. One might almost say that an apparition ishuman vision corrected by divine love.… The Miracles of the Church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near us from afar off...
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During the Parthian period, Mithraism spread beyond the borders of Iran and reached Europe. There are still remains of the Mehrabahs (Mithraeums) in Europe. These were temples of worshipping Mithra. Many similarities can be seen between modern Christian rituals and Mithraism. For example, they ...
We found generic characterisations where the Christian God is concerned with protecting, taking care, preserving... life in general, and others directly linked to the needs of the interviewee, associated with the immediate granting of material goods necessary or desired for the development of an ...
Even though attention to traditions other than Christianity has been growing, the two main branches of the philosophy of religion—natural theology and epistemology of religion—engage disproportionately with Christian traditions. Intellectualism refers to the fact that the philosophy of religion is biased...
to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” But Jefferson’s plan did not advance—until after Patrick (“Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death”) Henry introduced a bill in 1784 calling for state support for “teachers of the Christian religion....