Archive for the '-Culture Clash' Category
Saturday, January 28th, 2012
(Image via Wikipedia) It has become culturally fashionable to make the claim that “Jesus never said he was God.” Lots of folks would like to claim Jesus as their own but his divinity gets in the way. The Muslims claim Jesus was a great prophet to the Jews but far less than even their [...]
Filed under: -Christology, -Culture Clash, -Divinity of Jesus, -Jesus, Bible Issues
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Saturday, November 19th, 2011
(Image via Wikipedia) Does Islamic law forbid music and musical instruments? Apparently so. At least Muhammad did during his lifetime. However most Muslim cultures and communities today ignore those strictures except for the most radical Islamists. Currently the Middle East is going through an Islamic revival which is compelling Muslims to adhere more closely [...]
Filed under: -Culture Clash, -Religion & Culture, -Sharia Law, Hadith, Islam, Quran, Radical Islamists
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Sunday, October 10th, 2010
(Image by myyogaonline via Flickr) Way back on September 20th Dr. Albert Mohler wrote an article on his blog about Yoga and Christianity. It touched off a firestorm of controversy among Christians who regularly practice yoga. Here’s a quote from the article: When Christians practice yoga, they must either deny the reality of what yoga [...]
Filed under: -Culture Clash, Christianity, Current Issues (Culture Clash), Meditation
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Thursday, May 20th, 2010
(Image via Wikipedia) Today (May 20,2010) was the day set aside by the famous Facebook page to be the official “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day”. Should Christians participate in this activity? No. Why? Because Jesus taught his followers the Golden Rule. Many times lately Christians have been on the receiving end of offensive assaults on our [...]
Filed under: -Culture Clash, -Jihad, -Religion & Culture, Christianity, Freedom of Religion, Islam
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Sunday, March 14th, 2010
(Jerusalem via Wikipedia) Whenever Muslims have political control in a country or area, the minority religions are consistently persecuted and the customs and heritage including religious sites are assailed and some even blotted out. We saw this demonstrated a few years back in 2001 when the Taliban destroyed the 1500 year old Buddha sculptures in [...]
Filed under: -Culture Clash, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Persecution
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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Over 100,000 Britons have downloaded a ‘Certifcate of Debaptism’ from the National Secular Society (NSS) in the UK to publicly demonstrate their separation from Christianity. The majority were baptized into the Church of England as infants and now as adults have decided to reject the church. According to the article, similar movements are spreading to [...]
Filed under: -Atheism, -Culture Clash, -News Commentary, -Religion & Culture, -Religion & Politics, -Secularism
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
(-Image by lakerae via Flickr) So much of the Western world and particularly the elite media completely miss the religious motivating factors which cause young Muslims to end their lives blowing themselves and others up in one moment of desperate glory. Then the cameras turn to the ‘martyrs’ grieving family and catch them celebrating instead. [...]
Filed under: -After-life, -Culture Clash, -Martyrdom, Islam
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
(-Picture by Getty Images via Daylife) Former Prime Minister Tony Blair recently spoke out about his faith and his concerns that Christianity is being marginalized in the increasingly secular UK. He is proposing that it is time for Christians to speak out in support of their faith. He admits that as Prime Minister he was [...]
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