Christianity

24 September 2008

Atheist Ethics

By Eric Scott
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[Originally a forum post from http://thetoo.com]

I'm sorry, this post will be long; I don't have the time or energy to trim and edit tonight, but I just had to react.

I'll summarize my post in bullet points:

  • The world is complex, and many (If not most) ethical questions are subjective and inherently gray -- to both Christians and non-believers.
  • The desire for love is universal.
  • A rough guideline for ethics is somewhat obvious from our experience and inherent human nature.
29 August 2008

A Clash of Stories: Humanism and Christianity

By Eric Scott
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This is my reaction to my first assigned reading for the class "Scripture" (HONS 214H) at Andrews University.

"All human communities live out of some story that provides a context for understanding the meaning of history and gives shape and direction to their lives."

14 August 2008

Looking in the Mirror

By Ryan Bell
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It was while getting my hair cut last week that I was reminded again of how we Christians sometimes come across to our non-Christian counterparts.

Seven Reasons Life is Better with God

Posted August 6th, 2008 by Trudy Morgan-Cole
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In reviewing this book, I’ll resist the temptation to tell you the story of how the author, Nathan Brown, made me buy it, and the story of his deep discontent with the book’s title and the sunflower on the cover, and even the completely irrelevant story of how he ran a red light, got a ticket, and had to take a breathalyzer test while driving me around Perth. I’ll cut straight to the heart of the matter: it’s an engaging, well-written, thought-provoking book, and you should read it.



Daniel C. Dennett Won’t Break Religion’s Spell and Here’s Why

By David Larson

Daniel C. Dennett is an internationally renowned scholar at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts, and he is out to break religion’s “spell.” By this, he means its irrational grip, which causes us to act against our own best interests. Although he acknowledges that religion does some good things, he believes that in general it hurts us. He wants us to weigh its pros and cons in public, allowing no place for it to run for cover. He wants us to see it as it really is.

( March 28th, 2008 )

Sabbath School

Ethnicity and Discipleship

By Samir Selmanovic

The Antioch story of how we got our name marked a milestone in the growth of Christianity (Acts 11:19). Our spiritual forefathers believed they had been given the task to "tell the message only to the Jews" (v. 19), to people who shared the same sacred text, same history, same diet, and same culture. To do otherwise would threaten their group identity.

( February 4th, 2008 )
31 December 2007

Book notes on What’s So Great About Christianity

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Impetuous me, I wrote a comment on the book review: “New book out: Christianity and Homosexuality: Some Seventh-day Adventist Perspectives.” I got clobbered, pilloried, my humanity, and my Christian values were questioned. As a sensitive old man, sleep escaped me. I turned to late night television and clicked away until I reached C-Span 2.

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