Are Christians Too Nice?

I’m serious. Christians are called to be like Christ Jesus, to walk in His steps. I wonder if we’re not imitating the Gentle Shepherds and Caucasian Jesus portraits we’re all familiar with rather than the Jesus of the Bible. The Jesus we’re taught about in Sunday School doesn’t have much in common with the one…

Sirius Knott : Thoughts on Expelled!

First, I’d like to thank the atheists, without which I wouldn’t have heard about this movie. I wondered what all of the fuss was about when blogs started erupted vitriol over Ben Stein’s film months in advance of its release. Now that I’ve seen Expelled! No Intelligence Allowed, I recognize their mindless railings for what…

The Moral Implications of Darwinism: Why Does Natural Selection Seem So Unnatural To Us Morally?

Recently EvilBender [don’t you just love this guy’s name?] was playing the whole “Creationists just quote mine” game, meaning that he thinks we quote things out-of-context if they don’t support his views or, more to the point, that we just Google quotes and search for those that fit what we want to say. [Now anyone…