“If religion was proved a sham, what would you do?”
Good spirited, self-confessed atheists. I like them. In a recent online discussion, in which some comments were being made about Westboro Baptist Church (a vile christian sect if ever there was one – these are the guys who picket against homosexuals, abortion clinics and the like with very un-Christlike slogans as ‘God hates fags’, etc.), there were a couple of us Christians who were quick to denounce this group’s actions. Shortly after, one contributor offered her thoughts on the trend for us Christians to quickly define what ‘type’ of Christianity we ascribe to (and unfortunately, we do need to make the distinction nowadays). It would seem that, by her thoughts, that there is no point in Christians making such distinctions because all of religion is the same.
Anyway, I… Continue reading ...
Quote: Hope, faith and love
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from ours. Therefore, we must be saved by the final form of love … which is forgiveness.
Reinhold Niebuhr, philosopher and theologian… Continue reading ...
Quote: Peter Kreeft on tolerance and acceptance
Here’s a great quotation from Catholic philosopher Peter Kreeft, on the topic of Moral Theology and Homosexuality^, taken from an address delivered to St Mike’s College in November 2002:
There is a distinction between tolerance and acceptance. Tolerance has a prejudicial term to it: we don’t tolerate good things, we tolerate bad things for the sake of good things. Catholics believe that homosexuals are good things and that homosexual acts are bad things. So they accept homosexual persons and they don’t accept homosexual acts. They tolerate homosexual acts but they don’t tolerate homosexual persons – they love them. (Emphasis mine.)
You can listen to other addresses that Peter Kreeft has delivered by downloading them from his website: www.peterkreeft.com.
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Blood on the boil: homosexuals see red over discrimination
You would be hard pressed to find someone who would not agree that the donating of blood is a most worthy cause. Many thousands of Australians each year cheerfully bear an arm to give blood once every ninety days. There a many more Australians willing to do the same, it seems – yet they won’t because they believe that they can’t and that they are unduly discriminated against simply because they are gay. I would encourage them to look a little more closely as I can’t see any discrimination that is based on sexual preference whatsoever.
The facility to donate blood is an important facility within any country – no differently here Down Under: each week, more than 21,000 units of blood are required in order to meet demand… Continue reading ...
Why religion sucks (and will destroy your soul)
Religion sucks. Plain and simple.
If you’re offended by that then, quite frankly, it’s because you’re religious.
Let me see if I can add some substance to the above. For a great multitude of people, religion and Christianity are one and the same thing. There is no distinction for them – in fact, there would be little distinction for them between Christianity and any other religion, major or otherwise. For such people, all religions are more or less the same – and most frequently, they are all held to be as bad as each other.
Well, religions do suck. I’m all for the eradication of religion on a world-wide scale. But it’s probably only fair that I now reveal the definition of what I call religion. After… Continue reading ...
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