Depending on which poll you trust, the United States is between 75% and 85% Christian. In a democracy, majority rules, and that’s a pretty big majority. What, then, stands in the way of pure Christian rule in this country? The answer is fragmentation. Catholic, Mainline Protestant, Pentecostal, Evangelical, Ethnic and Orthodox […]
Let me begin by quoting from the First Amendment to the US Constitution. In this crowd, I imagine half of you can recite it from memory, but here it is anyway… “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” That’s a little vauge. […]
I just finished reading the cover story from the May 23 issue of Business Week. Free registration is required, but if you don’t want to bother, use “evangelicalatheist” as the user name and “password” as the password. “Earthly Empires” is about the big business of evangelical megachurches. For those of you who […]
As I’m sure everyone is aware by now, the U.S. House of Representatives made a futile gesture on Tuesday, passing a bill that would allow federal funding for stem cell research and sending that bill to the Senate. The Senate is expected to… well, it actually doesn’t make a damn bit of difference […]
Let me share with you two quotes I found interesting.
Now as Christians we believe that the basic starting point is the regeneration of man. Then man takes and applies that faith. For Christians the basic government is the self-government of the Christian man. Then the basic governmental unit is the family. This means that every […]
