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Author Archives: Heather Mac Donald
What is the message here?
Jesus never sent anyone to a doctor or a hospital. Jesus offered healing by one means only! Healing was by faith. (Pastor Bob on the Unleavened Bread Ministries website. The daughter of two followers of that group died last March … Continue reading
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be
It all comes from you, it all belongs to you. (Pastor Rick Warren’s inaugural prayer.) The Christian world-view holds that all human virtues are a loan from God. The secularist responds: “Quite the opposite.” Compassion, love, and mercy are human … Continue reading
God’s Problem
Several friends have recommended Martin Gardner’s review of Bart Ehrman’s God’s Problem in the New Criterion, the brilliant journal of principled culture criticism. Gardner, a math and science writer, lays out a Leibnizian explanation for life-destroying natural disasters: Any human-supportive universe … Continue reading
Drive-through religion
“Christian publishers and retailers realize that today’s busy consumers are looking for . . . spiritual food that can be consumed in a convenient way,” said Bill Anderson, the [Christian Booksellers Association] president. (“A closer, faster walk with thee.”) Today’s … Continue reading
Going to school v. going to church
The teen birth rate has started climbing again. As usual, it’s highest in red states and states with high black and Hispanic populations and lowest in New England blue states. In 2006, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Texas topped the list, … Continue reading
Hell and the scientific method
My good friend OpinionJournal.com blogger James Taranto drops his insistence that there is no tension between American tolerance and a belief in eternal damnation for wrong-believers (not without getting in one last crude mischaracterization of my argument, however). Now he … Continue reading
America and Hell
A Pew religion survey supports the hypothesis that American tolerance influences theology. “We are a multicultural society, and people expect this American life to continue the same way in heaven,” [Alan Segal, a professor of religion at Barnard College, commented … Continue reading
Secular Intolerance
Gay activists are furiously denouncing the Rick Warren inaugural invitation as an imprimatur for intolerance. At the same time, many in their ranks are trying to destroy the livelihoods not just of indviduals who donated piddling sums to California’s Prop. … Continue reading
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