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NOT 10 MILLION BIBLES THAT GIVE YOU A MULTIPLE CHOICE AS TO HOW TO HATE OTHERS. RELIGION IS DRECK AS FAR AS I CAN SEE IN MY EXPERIENCES WITH IT. When I was a kid in Armenian Sunday School back in the old hood we used to smoke cigarettes in the back p...

by Evelyn Waugh   St James’ Club, Piccadilly, W1 5 March 1938 SIR,—I am moved to write to you on a subject that has long been in my mind, by an anecdote I have just heard. A friend of mine met someone who—I am sure, both you and he himself...

I live by one rule – lead a happy productive life and hurt no one. That is a very difficult thing to do – “hurt no one” and not even the  Catholics can live up to this goal. RELIGION IS DRECK AS FAR AS I CAN SEE IN MY EXPERIE...

“Without religion, without faith in the absolute, because god is the absolute, then we don’t have an objective foundation for moral values. As a result, people are divided, people are fragmented because it is all based on relativism, whic...

by Richard Holloway   I want to take a glance at the whole of Christian history because one of the things I’d like to get at is this widespread notion that Christianity is or ever has been a single thing.   To do this I’ll use a...

by NPR staff   One-fifth of Americans are religiously unaffiliated — higher than at any time in recent U.S. history — and those younger than 30 especially seem to be drifting from organized religion. A third of young Americans say they don&#...

During the days leading up to Christmas, I read a piece of writing reflecting on the idea that Jesus was  born to die, and contesting with the notion that Jesus was only born to live for us.  The writer wrote that he was “sad that anyone...

Potential is hard to spot. Who would have thought, for example, that a quiet, overweight, lumbering boy nicknamed “the Dumb Ox” would become the greatest theologian of the Middle Ages and establish the theology of Catholicism for centuries to com...

It is a mistake to nail the English Reformation just to the door of King Henry VIII. While Henry broke relations with Rome, he still believed Catholic doctrine.

    I am surprised I did not blog for two weeks although I know that books can sedate my senses to everything else besides. I am allergic to appealing to hearsay or authority (especially evangelical ones) and am one of those irritating smar...

Protestants were slow to embrace the missionary cause. In the sixteenth century, they struggled to liberate themselves from moribund Catholicism. The seventeenth century was consumed with bloody efforts for liberty within the state. Not until the eig...

The Rosary, Questions 1417-1427 from Radio Replies Volume I Copyright © 1938 (by Rev. Dr. Leslie Rumble, M.S.C. and Rev. Charles Mortimer Carty). Attending a Catholic Church one evening I was disgusted by the rigmarole called the Rosary. What is tha...

Devotion to Mary, Questions 1400-1416 from Radio Replies Volume I Copyright © 1938 (by Rev. Dr. Leslie Rumble, M.S.C. and Rev. Charles Mortimer Carty). St. Bonaventure said, “Into thy hands, O Lady, I commend my spirit.” Thus he served t...

Images, Questions 1343-1355 from Radio Replies Volume I Copyright © 1938 (by Rev. Dr. Leslie Rumble, M.S.C. and Rev. Charles Mortimer Carty). Why are Catholic Churches decorated with images and statues in direct violation of the second commandment?

Tract: Why Is Mary Crying? Claim: Devotion to Mary doesn’t please her. It breaks her heart. The Big Question: Is that true? Let’s find out. You can download the above critique of Why is Mary Crying as a PDF (1.1 MB) over here. Thank you.

WYD 2013 Rio has launched its official anthem: “Esperança do Amanhecer,” or the “hope of dawn”. It’s a song written in Portuguese by the priest and composer José Cándido. It’s lyrics talk of young people without barriers, wanti...

I don't think Jesus came to die for our sins. I, like many early Chrisitans (not excluding biblical authors), think that Jesus came to show us what he was willing to risk to make sure we know that he loves us. His execution was not the purpose of h...

    “I was able to keep my complaining conscience quiet because we had been taught that the Holy Spirit was guiding Mother. To doubt her was a sign that we were lacking in trust and, even worse, guilty of the sin of pride. I shelved m...

I had planned on writing about the impact of Christianity in Micronesia when I decided to focus in on a general observation I had made while reading up on Micronesian Christianity.The entire time I was reading up on this topic, all I could think of w...