Worlds Apart

To the Mormon's visiting my site - a Question for you:

Why are you so offended by this picture?  To the point (I posted it here) where I receive comments like:

- Is nothing sacred to you?

- Your teachings either do not include that moral value, or you chose not to listen when they taught RESPECT!!!!!

- Are you feigning ignorance or do you really have to have this spelled out for you?

- Perhaps you're the type who would see nothing wrong with displaying a picture of a crucifix soaking in a cup of urine, or stomping through a Navajo burial ground.

Yet, when someone says "Mormonism has all the symptoms of a cult: blind obedience, strange rituals that only the "faithful" can do, procrustean practises, tithing, bans on things like masturbation, caffeine, and alcohol, preposterous temples, rewriting established Christian doctrine for Mormonism's own purposes, and what I find most obnoxious of all aggressive proselytising" no one responds?  Why?  Why is a simple picture so offensive yet these statements produce little too no response? 

When I make the statement, and it is a statement I fully believe in, "Mormonism is a cult and Mormon's are not Christians".  Should that not ignite the fire of debate within you?  Or do Mormon's agree with me?

World Aids Day

I thought I was done posting for the day, but then my friend John Santic of Towards Hope reminded me today is Worlds AIDS day.  Instead of re hashing the words, I suggest you check out John's post here. 

"This devastating disease is the modern day Leprosy of pandemic proportions.  5,500 lives are lost daily because of AIDS."

Andrew Sullivan posts of a friend he lost to aids here

How Did Methuselah Die?

Some interesting thoughts from John Morris at www.icr.org

One of the favorite characters in the Old Testament is Methuselah, who lived 969 years (Genesis 5:27), longer than anyone else recorded. His father was Enoch, of whom it is said he "walked with God" (5:24) but who was taken to heaven without dying at 365 years. Methuselah's son Lamech died a few years before the Flood at 777 years (5:31) after bearing Noah.

Defending Life

A good book to read in 07 - Title: Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice by Francis J. Beckwith.

Book Description: Defending Life is the most comprehensive defense of the prolife position on abortion ever published. It is sophisticated, but still accessible to the ordinary citizen. Without high-pitched rhetoric or appeals to religion, the author offers a careful and respectful case for why the prolife view of human life is correct. He responds to the strongest prochoice arguments found in law, science, philosophy, politics, and the media. He explains and critiques Roe v. Wade, and he explains why virtually all the popular prochoice arguments fail. There is simply nothing like this book.

Thank to Between Two Worlds for pointing this out.

When religion loses its credibility

Why is the Church so eager to accept homosexuality as okay?

Oliver "Buzz" Thomas writes "Galileo was persecuted for revealing what we now know to be the truth regarding Earth’s place in our solar system. Today, the issue is homosexuality, and the persecution is not of one man but of millions. Will Christian leaders once again be on the wrong side of history? " here.  He goes on in his "defense" of homosexuality:

The Nativity Story - Reviews

The Nativity Story is not getting good reviews from non Christian (at least publicly Christian) critics.  www.rottentomatoes.com has an average review of 4.4/10.  Comments such as "One of the greatest stories ever told has become one of the year's worst movies."  and "'When You Care Enough to Send the Very Best'...the film has all the substance, visual appeal, and excitement of a Hallmark card." 

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/nativity_story/

Benny Hinn - Some thoughts

From John Santic at Towards Hope

And from Bill Kinnon at Achievable Ends

Oh, and I need $50,000 for a new library to better equip me as a Christian.  I am looking for 50 people to send $1,000 to...

Changed to Hinn from Hill (thank you Bill)

Four Key Characteristics of the Church

Some notes from Chuck Colson's book "The Body"

Four Key Characteristics of the Church

1)  Humility

2)  Courage

3)  United

4)  Ready to Evangelize

Do you want to give $1,000?

Benny Hill is looking for 6000 Partners to give $1,000 each for a down payment on a new plane here.   If you donate, your name will be put on the plane and you will recieve on of these:

   

Words fail me.

The Nativity Story - Some more reviews

The book review from Challies here

Christianity Today's review by David Neff here

Christianity Today also has a website dedicated to the movie here

Looks like the movie is going to open at the Vatican.