At Atheist Wisdom we read:
Much of this question can be discarded. It boils down to "How can we believe in anything?". This question should be more unsettling to the theist than the atheist. The answer is that, philosophically, we can never be certain about anything, but we can test ideas by repeat measurements, theories, models [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Questions from Believers
Posted in Noted with Interest on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sheer Christianity
Posted in Noted with Interest on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Andrew Sullivan’s blog has become extremely active in ongoing discussion. He writes:
I’ve been a little awed by the email responses to the recent discussions about faith, doubt and atheism. They have swamped the in-tray. One recurrent theme through the emails is actually very encouraging to someone like me: it is that doubt and darkness [...]
TV Alert: Unwrapping the Shroud: New Evidence to be Rebroadcast
Posted in Noted with Interest on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Discovery Channel will be rebroadcasting “Unwrapping the Shroud: New Evidence” on Sunday February 1 at 9 p.m. EST and again 4 hours later at 1 a.m. (Check your local listings). It will be broadcast on Discovery’s regular and HD channels.
This Shroud of Turin documentary was first shown in December and received numerous positive reviews. [...]
Gag order for bishop who denies much of the Holocaust
Posted in Noted with Interest on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Religion News Service:
National Catholic Reporter has the statement from Bishop Bernard Fellay, the head of the order of ultra-conservative Catholic order readmitted into the Catholic Church earlier this week. One of the bishops of that order, Richard Williamson, denies aspects of the Holocaust.
Moneyquote: "It’s with great sadness that we recognize the [...]
Orthodox Rabbi Criticized for Attending Inaugural Prayer Service
Posted in Noted with Interest on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Daniel Burke for Religion News Service:
An Orthodox rabbi broke Jewish law by participating in an interfaith prayer service on Wednesday (Jan. 21) at Washington National Cathedral, according to the Rabbinical Council of America.
Rabbi Haskel Lookstein [pictured in middle above], who leads Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in New York, was one of three rabbis who [...]
George Carey: Atheists used 9/11 to smear religion
Posted in Noted with Interest on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Clerical Whispers reports:
Aggressive atheists have used the terrorist outrages of September 11 as an excuse to attack all religions, according to the former head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, Lord Carey.
He said the destruction of the World Trade Center by Muslim fanatics marked the start of a new war waged by "aggressive and [...]
Should Pennsylvania’s Partying Episcopal Priest, Father Malia, be Defrocked?
Posted in Noted with Interest on January 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
These are the captions for five pictures that appear in the NY Daily News:
On the day the Episcopal church opened an investigation into his nightclub crawls, new pictures surfaced of a Pennsylvania priest getting his party on.
The candid camera caught the Rev. Gregory Malia living it up with lithe lovelies at one of [...]
Leave it to Cranmer to Explore This
Posted in Noted with Interest on January 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Blogger Cranmer wonders if “there a conspiracy to keep ‘Mohammed’ out of the most popular name lists?
For the last 14 years Jack has been the most popular boys’ name in the land. But in multicultural Britain children named after the Muslim prophet Mohammed come a close second. Back in 2007, The Times observed that Muhammad [...]
An Unfolding Tragedy: Church History Few Know About
Posted in Noted with Interest on January 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I highly recommend this article by Philip Jenkins in Christianity Today. I have observed that few Christians in “the West” have any knowledge of the church in wider Mesopotamia. This is a short history lesson well told:
Across much of the Middle East, the ancient Christian story seems to be coming to a bloody end [...]
