Paul M. Jones | Religion2026-05-08T09:12:58-05:00No, Jesus Was Not A Socialist2020-01-25T09:36:49-06:00Christians are commanded in Scripture to love, to pray, to be kind, to serve, to forgive, to be truthful, to worship the one God, to learn and grow in both spirit and character. All of those things are very personal. They require no politicians, poli...Should the race go to the swift? Or should there be no race?2017-08-28T14:05:44-05:00The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.
http://biblehub.com/ecclesiastes/9-11.htm
Some read this, and think:...How Oxford and Peter Singer drove me from atheism to Jesus2020-10-20T14:30:40-05:00Christianity, it turned out, looked nothing like the caricature I once held. I found the story of Jacob wrestling with God especially compelling: God wants anything but the unthinking faith I had once assumed characterized Christianity. God wants us ...The Bright Immensities2015-09-15T15:27:29-05:00And have the bright immensities
Received our risen Lord
Where light-years frame the Pleiades
And point Orionâs sword?
Do flaming suns His footsteps trace
Through corridors sublime,
The Lord of interstellar space
And Conqueror of time?
The heav...Everything You Think You Know About The Crusades Is Wrong2015-03-02T17:32:52-06:00It is generally thought that Christians attacked Muslims without provocation to seize their lands and forcibly convert them. The Crusaders were Europeâs lacklands and neâer-do-wells, who marched against the infidels out of blind zealotry an...Burning Responses2015-02-14T22:46:44-06:00Imagine a hypothetical YouTube where the videographer burns a Koran and urinates on the ashes. We in the modern West consider this kind of thing an act of free speech.
Would that act be offensive to Muslims? Absolutely. It be offensive to Jews if it ...You Think Atheists Are More Intelligent? Think Again.2014-09-28T16:21:31-05:00A summary of Vox Popoli: Mailvox: the distribution of atheist intelligence:
- On average, atheist IQ is a little higher than theist IQ. Of course, averages are misleading, because ...
- There are more high-IQ theists than high-IQ atheists.
- The majo...Dawkins And Allah: The Answer Is, "Because They Will Try To Kill You"2013-02-28T14:02:07-06:00In a recent Al-Jazeerah interview, Richard Dawkins was asked his views on God. He argued that the god of "the Old Testament" is "hideous" and "a monster", and reiterated his claim from The God Delusion that the God of the Torah is the most unpleasant...Vicious Stereotypes in Polite Society2013-01-13T23:45:58-06:00One of the less attractive patterns in human behavior is our tendency to stereotype those with whom we disagree, those whose interests conflict with our own, or those who are simply different from ourselves. Such stereotypes create and reinforce prej...Kubrick's comments regarding 'A Clockwork Orange'2013-01-13T23:20:15-06:00The violence in the story has to be given sufficient dramatic weight so that the moral dilemma it poses can be seen in the right context. It is absolutely essential that Alex is seen to be guilty of a terrible violence against society, so that when h...