Via Q, an article from Christianity Today which demonstrates the link between the work of Christian missionaries and modern democracy. The Surprising Discovery About Those Colonialist, Proselytizing Missionaries They didn’t set out to change history. But one modern scholar’s research shows they did just that. Andrea Palpant Dilley For many of our contemporaries, no one … More How Christian Missions influenced democracy…
From a wise Editorial in the Australian… NO book has had a greater impact on Western civilisation than the Bible. Believers or not, few would disagree. The Bible has shaped our language, art and institutions. Its Christian teachings have informed our development from exploration to enlightenment, through customs to laws, forging countries and cultures. So … More The Greens don’t have a prayer…
Of course, we all have our moments, and none of us is perfect, but our politicians, being constantly in the spotlight throughout election campaigns, have a hard job maintaining their cool under pressure, it seems. Mr Abbott, frustrated by Mr Rudd’s inability to end a sentence, wondered aloud if he’d ever shut up, which was … More Who are you when (you think) no one is looking?
From the Daily Mail… Millionaire gay fathers to sue the Church of England for not allowing them to get married in the church The first legal challenge to the Church of England’s ban on same-sex marriage was launched today – months before the first gay wedding can take place. Gay father Barrie Drewitt-Barlow declared: ‘I … More What Slippery Slope? Things they said would never happen!
Christian takes helm at Islamic school (the positive) Guiding principal: Dr Ray Barrett with some of the pupils at Malek Fahd in Greenacre. Photo: Peter Rae It is Australia’s largest, oldest, and best-known Muslim school, but for the first time in its 23-year history, Malek Fahd has appointed a Christian to take on the full-time … More The Positive and Negative of Australia’s Multi-Faith/Cultural Society
The claim on this and other sites by some commenters is that the ‘War on Terror’ actually created an environment for jihadists to be recruited and radicalised. Of course, this has to have some serious merit. But what is behind this radicalisation, and why do the imams and jihad generals use it as a pretext … More Op Ed: Modern jihad recruitment predates 9/11
So the political left in the US is fair-minded and the only reasonable, intelligent group worth listening to? Well, of course, if you consider yourself to be the liberal intellectual heart-beat of America, you would have to think this and, thus, feel justified as you stealthily eliminate, in your imagination, any potential opposition. The problem … More How the US left politically hampered conservatives…
Of race, religion and politics by John Elder – 10/03/13, 3:00 AM National president of Rise Up Australia, Danny Nalliah, left, and below speaking at the election campaign launch in Hallam. With its anti-Islam, anti-multicultural stance, Danny Nalliah’s Rise Up Australia Party has been compared to One Nation. But will its policies win seats in the … More Nalliah? Do not vote for this idiot!
A cheer-up for the lost and weary atheist traveller, to help them decide whether their antipathy towards God is really showing the kind of fruit required for a life of anti-spiritual, liberal, slap-the-face-of-a-believer ease…
Edison never considered his achievement of inventing the light bulb to be a failure, even though he made 10,000 pre-versions which did not light up. They were steps on the way to success. It only took one. Abraham Lincoln failed at a great many things before becoming what he was really destined for, and actually … More Failing your way to success…
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