Entries from August 1996

Church Burnings

August 16, 1996

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.

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 [...]