The topic of church burnings has been a difficult one partly because many remain unsolved. But here in South Carolina, if you burn a church, you will more than likely get caught. Two members of the KKK plead guilty to the burning of a Black Church this week, and today two more were indicted.
Entries from August 1996
Church Burnings
August 16, 1996
Holocaust Denial
August 16, 1996
It would seem incredible that anyone would not believe in something so well-documented as the holocaust.
Original Sin
August 16, 1996
I got nailed by my Sunday School class yesterday. It happened like this… I was doing my part-time duty teaching Adult Sunday school and we were studying Psalm 51. When we got to the verse “in sin did my mother conceive me”, I asked whether David was expressing the depth of his sin (much as [...]
Who started the INQUISITIONS?
August 16, 1996
Heh, you can’t fool me. That’s a trick question. The answer depends on *WHICH* inquisition you mean. But to give a general answer: Often at the instigation of secular rulers, bishops were urged to investigate and deal locally with heretics, since they were seen as a threat to both ecclesiastical and the social order. [Grolier's [...]
Inerrancy
August 14, 1996
Somebody called me a “part-time atheist” because (I presume) that I post articles which do not support the doctrine of biblical inerrancy. There is a rather strong stereotype among some atheists that all Christians are anti-science, blind-faith, literalists, inerrantists and moral absolutists. And I find it ironic that the fundamentalists and many atheists share a [...]