What is a moderate Muslim?
Here in Australia we hear that no all of then are fanatical and bent on convert or kill, that their good religion has been taken away from them and transform, what are they doing to reclaimed?
AMMAN, Jordan -- Pope Benedict XVI began his first trip to the Middle East yesterday, expressing his "deep respect" for Islam and hopes that the Catholic Church would be a force for peace in the region as he treaded carefully following past missteps with Muslims and Jews.
The pope was given a...
Yes, America Has AIDS Orphans -- Lots
America has the most AIDS orphans in the Western world, but you'd hardly know. As Madonna and Angelina Jolie comb the world for orphans, American children who have lost parents to AIDS seem to have no celebrity champions. None of the big foundations, from...
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A Catholic survey found that the most common sin for women was pride, while for men, the urge for food was only surpassed by the urge for sex.
The report was based on a study of confessions carried out by Fr Roberto Busa, a 95-year-old Jesuit scholar.
The...
The Bible helps those that suffer depression.
It appears that these days there is more and more preacher of gloom than ever before, every day we are bombarded by the negative world view of the Godless, man is just another mammal, God does not care about humans. I sought God but I did not find...
Government launches 12 year plan to reduce homelessness in Australia
Mission Australia Centre
Surrey Hills, Sydney
21 December 2008
The White Paper on Homelessness, The Road Home, was launched today by the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, and the Minister for Housing, Tanya Plibersek.
The White Paper...
This is what the over paid fat cats get paid for:
THE Federal Government's human rights arm plans to invent a new official status called "intersex" adding it to male and female as a legally recognised gender.
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission wants people to be able to change...
I think that the present economic troubles that are affecting the global economy have its roots in immorality, it seem to me that these days the solution for immorality is to make immorality legal, thats how the rot sets in. What do you think?
How would you explain your faith to a seeker of God?
When and where would you take the time to answer questions about your religious beliefs?
My guiding scripture on this matter is 1Pe 3:15 but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to everyone who asks you a...
Tolerance is this a good thing?
There is the theory that religious people should be tolerant and even accommodating of just about anything in order to bring more people to salvation, Ive known people that even proposed to change the tenets of their religion in order to achieve this purpose...
I read a thread on the subject of idolatry and as I have always have trouble explaining to other people why it is considered wrong by so many I though of asking this question Are the Cherubs on the Mercy Sit Idols? there was a good scripture suggested, I thought that it was this one: Exo 20:4...
I read some posts on the subject and noticed that even personal verbal discussions were presented as wars, that isnt what a call war, my concept of wars is armed conflicts between nations, did the Lord ever touched this subject?
The benefits of religion.
All rational being are moved toward what is Good, religion moves Billions of people, what moved you? 2Co 3:18 But we all, with our face having been unveiled, having beheld the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are being changed into the same image from glory to glory...
The fear of God, what is it?
A while ago a colleague of mine came up with this question, she was very upset with her reverend (I think that is what they are call in the Church of England) because she went for counselling about problems that she was having with her teenage son and all that he...
I read this in old post (2004) statement some religions consider it immoral to feel lust or act on lust... yet this doesn't really harm anyone. it has no responses, this is a very interesting subject so I hope that there are some debate on it, is it true? What are the harms that lust brings? I...