(CNN) — Next time Grandma asks why you’re going to the mall on Sunday morning instead of church, tell her you’re going to Apple Chapel. For Apple fans, the brand triggers a reaction in the brain that’s not unlike that of religious devotees, according to a BBC documentary series that […]
May 2011 Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Every agnostic or atheist has to deny accountability and hereafter by definition. If our universe is an accident and that is your world view then Hawking is right. But, if you are amazed at the beauty and organization of our universe […]
1 2 3 4 A four hour PBS documentary Written and Produced by Marilyn Mellowes William Cran, Senior Producer and Director Air date: April 6, 1998. The documentary puts the early Christianity in the proper context of Judaism. In other words the Jews are in the middle of the discussion […]
By CHRISTIAN C. SAHNER It’s Friday and the weekly congregational prayer has just ended at the Umayyad Mosque, Syria’s most famous monument. As the faithful exit, they walk past an unassuming bit of masonry on the mosque’s southern wall: a Greek inscription above a blocked doorway, with a most unlikely […]
1 2 As the facts about the compilation of the New Testament become better known the Christian apologists will come up with new rationalizations. However, here is the present demographic reality in the words of loonwatch.com: Jews and Christians no longer believe in the inerrant nature of the Bible, unlike the Muslims […]
Source: Huffington Post By Christian Chiakulas; Writer and musician from Chicago What is the Bible? Is it a collection of scriptures written by men, or something more? Conservative Christianity affirms the idea of “Biblical Inerrancy;” that is, the Bible is the literal, Divinely-inspired Word of God. Whether or not they accept […]
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Pope Francis, ending a contentious bishops’ meeting on family issues, on Saturday excoriated immovable Church leaders who “bury their heads in the sand” and hide behind rigid doctrine while families suffer. The pope spoke at the end of a three-week gathering, known as a synod, where the bishops agreed to […]
VOA: A majority of Americans, 59 percent, believe science often conflicts with religion, while 38 percent say the two areas are mostly compatible The most religious Americans are less likely […]
The Guardian, British Museum, London Neil MacGregor’s swansong as director of the British Museum is a brilliant challenge to the modern western belief in unbelief: the cosy assumption that all sensible people are secular rationalists now. It confronts our inability to cope with a world in which religion is still […]
RT Six Russian women in a sealed room and it may get hot – no this isn’t a scene from a movie, but a scientific experiment dubbed ‘Luna-2015’. For eight whole days these female scientists will learn how to survive in conditions imitating flight to the moon. The purpose of […]
Source: Christian Science Monitor An Illinois jury awarded $240,000 in damages and back pay to two former truck drivers who claimed religious discrimination when they were fired in 2009 after […]
First posted by Dr. Falak Rahman Source: Huffington Post By M.G.S. Narayanan; Historian, academic, Former Chairman of India Council Of Historical Research The present controversy around beef eating, accompanied by violent […]
Post originally made by Dr. Falak Rahman Source: The Guardian: By Ijeoma Oluo, who is a Seattle based writer and internet yeller. Her work on feminism and social justice has been […]
This is a small booklet with a very descriptive title, written by an Australian Judge, Ernest Brougham Docker, in 1920. He became a judge of the District Court and chairman […]
In my view Prof. Bart Ehrman very satisfactorily establishes in this debate that historically we cannot prove Jesus’ resurrection. Here is a 1.5 – 2 hours debate from 2008: There […]
It seems that in the first century Roman Empire the use of divine metaphors for humans was not uncommon. In the case of Jesus Christ the Church took these metaphors too seriously and literally. Prof. Bart Ehrman says: “Apollonius lived at about the same time as Jesus, although they never […]
Epigraph: And those who call not on any other God along with Allah, nor kill a person that Allah has forbidden except for just cause, nor commit adultery (or fornication), and he who does that shall meet with the punishment of sin. Doubled to him will be the punishment on […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Like we have five pillars of Islam, including Shahada, Salat or Prayer, Fasting, Zakat or Charity […]
Epigraph: And those who call not on any other God along with Allah, nor kill a person that Allah has forbidden except for just cause, nor commit adultery (or fornication), […]