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Debating God: Atheist and Evangelical Face Off at Notre Dame

By Nathan Schneider

…In his so-called “rebuttal” periods, Harris attacked biblical morality and compared it to the Taliban. He addressed most of the subjects Craig explicitly set out to avoid. There were also some off-color remarks about fried chicken on death row and trailer parks. But being off-color was the point. “I hate to break it to you here at Notre Dame,” said Harris, “but Christianity is a cult of human sacrifice.” Then, at every opportunity, Craig listed th…

American Indians Irate over Bin Laden Code Name “Geronimo”

By Johnny P. Flynn

…cost the American military over one million dollars to kill each Apache. Compare that cost to the nearly one and a half trillion dollars the United States has spent since 2002 tracking down Osama bin Laden and the two or three hundred members of al Qaeda said to be fighting from the mountains of the Afghan/Pakistan border. It’s safe to say the United States military hasn’t learned much over the generations about how to fight a war against a wel…

Imagine No Religion: Sustaining Morality Without God

By Konstantin Petrenko

…r. But sociological evidence points in the opposite direction. When Gallup compared the world’s most devout nations to the most irreverent ones, countries with a less religious population fared markedly better. The list of the ten least religious nations included some of the most affluent, egalitarian, peaceful and happy countries—such as Denmark, France, Hong Kong, Japan, Norway and Sweden. By contrast, the most religious countries were poorer, l…

Oklahoma Supreme Court Unanimously Blocks Personhood Ballot Initiative UPDATED

By Katie Toth

…ew theme, but one with real resonance, especially among young people. (Now compare that to the web presence of Oklahomans for Life.) It seems like some kind of realignment may be in the works, but it’s too soon to say who will be aligned with whom. UPDATE: According to a Personhood USA press release, the organization intends to appeal the decision at the US Supreme Court level—a move which they hope will result in overturning Roe. Some anti-aborti…

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Titanic: “Eurabian” Alarmism 2.0

By Haroon Moghul

…but rather with who wields that force and against whom. It is true that a number of Muslims hold uncomfortable political views, even on matters of violence. It is also true, however, that most human beings generally speaking do the same. Many Muslims saw the 1990s sanctions on Iraq as horrific; in the United States, our leadership didn’t have too much of a problem with them—even defending them as painfully necessary. When asked her reaction to ha…

“Tonight I Am Ashamed to be a Baptist”

By Sarah Posner

…hey’ll die out. Do you know why? They can’t reproduce!” Leonard goes on to compare Worley’s statesments to the 1980 remarks of then-Southern Baptist Convention president the Rev. Bailey Smith that “God Almighty does not hear the prayers of a Jew.” He adds: E. Glenn Hinson, then my colleague at the Baptist seminary in Louisville and one of the most Christ-like human beings I have ever known, said of that statement, “Such is the stuff of which holoc…

The Accidental Worshiper: Following the Music

By Tripp Hudgins

…tive of their rites—and rites, no matter how informal, embody theology. To compare twirling Deadheads with genuflecting Catholics might seem odd, but for the sake of this exploration let’s hold them together. It is clear that many in my generation are clamoring for a kind of religious experience that they simply do not find in Christian contexts, not even at Willow Creek, Saddleback, or Hillsong, though they sometimes come close. Perhaps the most…

India’s Elections and the “Doniger Affair”

By Murali Balaji

…al to Marxism. Hinduism and the Indian state became one and the same for a number of academics, and, borrowing from missionary (and liberal secular) beliefs about Indian social practices and religion, they helped to advance several prominent—but false—ideas in the West: that the caste system was inherently and uniquely Hindu, that women in Hinduism are subordinate to men, and that Hinduism promoted social inequality and injustice. In the absence o…

Elie Wiesel Distorts Bible in Controversial “Child Sacrifice” Ad

By Seth Sanders

…Molech — which I never commanded, or even thought of! [Jeremiah 32:32-35; compare Solomon’s shrine to Molech in 1 Kings 11:7 and later Judahites’ child sacrifice-sanctuary in 2 Kings 23:10]. To be sure, there is a tradition, far older than the Bible, of making food and drink-offerings to dead kings who are referred to as the malakūma (cognate with Molech), known from the second-millennium BCE Syrian sites of Mari and Ugarit, and there may be a co…

Are (White) Evangelicals Really Dwindling? A Debate Heats Up

By Sarah Posner

…iously, on a range of complex factors that are not explained solely by the numbers, even the declining numbers, of white evangelicals in the South, or even of declining numbers of conservative Protestants, whether defined as evangelical or mainline. As I noted in my earlier post, intensity and turnout will drive the outcome of these races. Regardless of the outcome, though, one thing is certain: there is going to be an ongoing dissection and discu…